DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Claymore, got that okay good, because I'm not putting this out there again

Riful of the West, the only surviving Abyssal Ones, was not having a good day first she had been watching Rafaela and Luciela in shocked at how the new Awakened Being's power kept increasing. Realizing her chances of beating it were at 50-50, and that they would lessen as time went by Riful was about to retreat when Alicia and Beth arrived, and told Riful that she was the next target they were to eliminate…

Riful awakened and began to battle an awakened Alicia but was unable to keep up with her. Alicia's arms were easily able to slice trough Riful's body. Riful had to order Dauf to attack Beth, who she knew was performing soul link with Alicia, to try and give her an advantage. This worked, slowing down Alicia's movements, but only for a short time. The battle was interrupted when the new Awakened Being call the Destroyer began firing projectiles. The projectiles injured Dauf, causing Riful to reach out to him. However, Riful herself got pierced by several projectiles in the process…

After managing to escape, reverting back to her human form, Riful had been dragging Dauf to safety when the Abyss Feeders from back for had caught up to them and with Riful too exhausted to regenerate, they quickly overwhelmed her and managed to bite off one of her arms…

However to Riful and Dauf surprise Alicia came out of nowhere and begins to indiscriminately attack the remaining Abyss Feeders, before reverting to her human form, She quickly re-engaged Riful in battle and removed two more of the her limbs much to Riful's horror. Just as she begin to weep in anger at her on coming death, Alicia soul link started to fail and she was having difficulty maintaining Beth's consciousness…

"Ga… Gi… Ga… Gi… Ga…" Alicia groaned doing all that she can to keep Beth's consciousness intact…

"Riful, now your chance, if you do it now, you can beat her!" Dauf cry out, however despite knowing that Alicia was at her most vulnerable and having Dauf shout at her to finish her, Riful however just couldn't move…

"What… What is this…?" Riful said quietly to herself as Dauf look on in confusion wondering why she didn't attack…

"Ri… Riful…? What in the world are you loo…"

"Weren't you supposed to be in the South?" Riful said quietly showing true fear for the first time in years, as she knew immediately who it was that cause their soul link to fail. Priscilla.

"S… South?" Dauf ask even more confuse then before…

"Ga… Gi… Gu… " Alicia gowned out once agin, finally getting a hold of her body, Alicia jump up into the sky leveling Riful and Dauf behind in order to help her sister, or at least that what she plan but found she self being held in place... By strips of Metal! Looking down Alicia gave Riful a cold look as she begins trying to break free of the strips…

"You're… Trying to head off to your twin, right?" Riful Ask, not really all that sure why she was stopping the claymore, just that she knew if Alicia went to where her sister was at, then all that a waited her is death...Why Riful care, she really didn't know…

"Let… me… go…" Alicia bit out, it was one of the few times she did talk and for most that would be taken as a bad sigh, but Riful held up even as Alicia begin slicing the strips she just use more to hold her…

"If you who's controlling her go there… Just what are you planning to do…" Riful ask but the claymore just kept copping at the strips…

"Riful she wants to leave, I say just let her leaves!" Dauf said out loud, not understanding why Riful seem so bent on stopping her from going where ever it is she wanted to go. Riful gain a horrifying look in her eyes as she realizes what Alicia plan on doing…

"Stop it, if you're going to try in Awakening then don't, with both of you awakening neither of you will be able to return to being human again…" Riful yell trying to talk some sense into the, the Alicia paused, staring at Riful with unnerving intensity as she went unnaturally still…

(Did my words reach her?) Riful thought to herself, hope that some had somehow stop the girl from throwing away her life, and again not really knowing why. After a long minute of Alicia just staring at Riful, she spoke at last…

"I said… Let go…" Alicia said with a dark tone in her voice as she use a powerful slash to cut herself free of the strips, much to Riful surprise before jetting off to Beth, as Riful look on…

"That… that little… fools…" Riful scowl at the girl leaving, knowing that no matter what Alicia did she couldn't win. What more by going there she may as well be throwing away her life- Riful eyes wide at what she just felt, the girl who's power was at the same level as Riful herself just die!

"How can this be..? She didn't even release… Half of her full power…!" Riful said stunned and incapable of believing such a powerful creature could exist and continued to "watch" from the sidelines. However Riful felt something new, Priscilla was moving away from Alicia and from what her felt of Alicia's yoki, and Priscilla hadn't done any harm to her at all, Riful wasn't sure why know but knowing that Alicia was alive and well made her feel relieved… That is until a horrible realize hit her!

"Dauf, run away!" Riful warned Dauf, but he just looks at her, not understanding what the problem was and refused to leave her side.

"But I'm like this now… And to run away by myself leaving you here…"

"Shush, hurry! Get away from here, even if it just a little-! "Riful words came to an end Priscilla herself appears in back of her…

"It has been on my mind since a little while ago, your yoki…" Priscilla said glencsing at Riful.

"It seeming like I felt a similar one before… I wonder if we met somewhere, you and I…" Riful just kept quiet, unable to believe how she got herself into this, Riful just look at the girl in fear…

"R… Ridiculous… From there, this fast…" Riful said to her herself after finally finding her voice as sweat pore down her forehead, then to her horror Dauf spoke up!

"Y… You, if you do anything to Riful, I won't forgive you…" Priscilla just narrows her eyes at him as Riful horror continue to grow, Dauf had just admitted himself that he couldn't move, and now threatening someone who was not only in better shape them but also way more powerful? Just how dumb was he!

"St… Stop… Please… Dauf, stop…" Riful for the first time in her life begs her lover to do something, but Priscilla had already appears in front of him and drop down to one knee.

"You won't forgive me you say? What specifically are you planning to do?" Priscilla ask Dauf putting a hand to his face, now a normal person would have been concerned about this, but then, Dauf was far from normal. He just stubbornly threatened her.

"I'll pull out your arms and legs, and drag out your guts, and torment you into exhaustion!" Dauf growled at her as she just looks back at him with an extremely apathetic look and before Dauf or Riful knew what had happen, his arms and leg came flying off in a blooded mess.

"Dauf! " Riful yell as Priscilla dugs her hand into the side of his stomach, and pull along rope of guts from him.

"GYAHI! GYA!" Dauf cry out in pain…

"What a coincidence, I was also thinking of doing that as well..." Priscilla said in a bored tone as Riful cry out in Anger and try to retaliated, only to have Priscilla punch her right hand through Riful's back and spine, shooting spikes all throughout her body. While this might have kill a normal Humans, Claymores, Youma, and Awakened Being, Riful body was strong enough to let her live… But she knew her life was at an end…

"Just that town's inhabitants, is not nearly enough for me…" Priscilla said as if answering a un-ask question.

"Even if it doesn't taste good, I'll endure it this time..." Riful eyes wide at this as she knew what Priscilla was going to do, (She's going to eat me…) she thought, oddly relaxed as her torso was torn off with Dauf crying out, begging for Priscilla to stop, but she didn't pay him any mind, pick Riful up by what was left of her back and use her clawed hand to reaches down into the torso, digging inside to pulls out the worm-like purple appendage.

Dauf could only watch with tears forming in his bestial eyes as Priscilla, without any hesitates chomps down on Riful's intestine.

Riful had screen at first when her torso had been torn off but then had somehow relax, sure she felt Priscilla ripping out her inside but just couldn't bring herself to screen anymore, this was her end and there was nothing she could do about it anymore… It was over…

While Riful had more than a few regrets, with the biggest being how she had not listen to her instincts, and how her death would be by being eaten by this monster, at the very end she saw the one thing she didn't regret: helping the girl called Alicia survives, somehow knowing the girl would live give her finals moments, piece…

-00000-

10 minutes ago

After escaping Riful hold, Alicia rush over to Beth as fast as she could, however the scene that greeted her was one that she was unable to comprehend, it was her sister's corpse, dismembered and shredded to pieces with only half of Beth head late, next to an uninjured-looking Priscilla. The whole scene had caused her to freeze, up as she look down at her dead sister…

"Oh my, you finally show huh?" Priscilla said staring at the girl with an apathetic look as the claymore just kept staring at her sister's corpse.

"I really thought you'd just watch from afar, but you're too late, this girl is already dead…" Priscilla said to Alicia who begins walking to her, making no move at all but watching Alicia come over to her.

"So what do you plan on doing now, even if you had arrive on time it had made no differences." Priscilla watches as the girl came up to her, and then raise an eye brow when she simply walks past her and went up to Beth remains. Kneeing down Alicia put her hand over what was left of her sister's face feeling how cold it was and begin moving it back and forth as if a mother trying to wake up her child, not realizing that there were tears coming down her cheek.

"Are you crying?" Priscilla ask in an extremely dull tone as Alicia pushes at the head a bit harder and more desperately while still not saying a word.

"I thought you were some pretty well mad puppets the Organization had produced, but I guess in the foundation that connects you two; a part that was human remained…" Looking on as Alicia stop pushing at the head, and just was just looking at it with no emotion on her face save for the tears that kept falling, with no reaction to Priscilla words.

The silence was starting to annoy Priscilla.

"Well at any rate, to rush to the other's crisis most likely with plans to awaken yourself, to shed tears over the other's death, From the point of view of the Organization, you're nothing more then failed creations."

Still more silence, Alicia's stare not breaking from the corpse for a second.

"Though I'm really not interested in an insignificant weakling like you, I can let you be united again with your sister again, if you like." Extending her hands into claws, Priscilla plan on making a clean cut, taking the girl head off, putting an end to her.

"Is… Is Beth…? Dead…?" Alicia spoke in an emotionless tone.

Priscilla had rise her claws to putting an end to her, but found herself surprise by the girls word, putting her hand down for a moment and for the first time Priscilla got a good look at her face. There wasn't a singly emotion on it even with all the tears falling down , Priscilla raise an eyebrow at this because there wasn't a hint of regret or sadness anywhere to be found on the girls face.

"You… You really aren't able to comprehend... That child death… Are you…?"

No reaction. No response. No nothing. She just kept stair corpse as if waiting for it to wake up, Priscilla look on for a minute more before turning and walking away.

"Well as long as you don't get in my way, you can do as you please…" with that she disappears leaving Alicia to her thoughts. Alicia for her part didn't know what to think of this, Beth was gone, really gone, but Alicia wasn't sad, after all they were warriors and it was 'kill or be killed' in their world. Her twin had failed to kill, so she was killed. It was just like the Organization told them so that was all there was to it.

Turning around Alicia was about to head back to Riful and Dauf to finish her task but found her yoki had disappeared, arching an eyebrow, Alicia found this odd as the last time she saw them, they were in no shape to be moving very far so where did they go, however the answer came when she felt the yoki of the Awakened Being she had just met, the same one that had kill Beth she didn't even need to guess what had happen.

"Riful is dead…" Alicia spoke in an emotionless tone not really sure what to do now, while most may have thought Alicia was a complete puppet that did whatever the Organization said, she did have a mind of her own, and like all minds self-preservation had a habit of making itself know when it needed to.

While Alicia could go back to the Organization, she knew they would likely execute her on the spot for failing to take Riful head and allowing Beth to die… And to be honest, even Alicia rather like having her head where it was… But what was she going to do now; with Beth gone Alicia find herself along and very much didn't like it, logically she would like to have been with Beth but that was impossible now and it not like she… could just... re-place her…? Alicia thoughts stop at that, why could she re-place Beth? The Organization was able to re-place her anytime they needed, in fact Alicia already knew about the twins they we're training in case she or her sister ever dead, so why couldn't she re-place her own sister?

"I can." Alicia said with little to no emotion, as the more she thought about it, the more right it just seem and not realizing just how odd and disturbing this line of thought was as she came up to new problem in her plan... How...

The only way to replace her sister was to find a new warrior, something that would be very hard to do seeing as going back to the organization would only get her kill, and Alicia really doubted that any of them would willingly leave the organization for her and become a Rogue just she can use them to re-place Beth, so how? The it hit Alicia, a few days ago the numbers 3 and 5 warrior's had reported that they had been save by a group of Rogue's calling themselves the Seven Ghosts who may in fact be survivors of the Northern Campaign!

This had all kinds of possibility for Alicia; they had deserted the Organization and likely hid in the mountains of Alphonse for seven long years, so they by no mean would try in return her to the Organization to be execute, in fact they might even let her join them. What more if they were survivors of what happen in the north then they had to be fairly powerful by now, so picking one of them to take Beth place by her side shouldn't be a problem, with her thought finished there was only one thing to do now, Find them...

This however Alicia found to be the easiest part, namely because she already memorize the auras of the current 47 warrior's, so any new yoki's she felt had to be those of the Seven Ghosts, casting one last look to her sister's corpse Alicia turn away from it before moving to a hilltop to stand at a better place for long distance yoki sensing...

"The strongest source of yoki is that Awaken being that attack me and Beth earlier. The second strongest source of power, that woman I just met…" Alicia said to herself listing off what she felt, when she eyes shot wide open in surprise as she sense three yoki's nearby that did not belong to the Organization but that wasn't the reason for her surprise, no her surprise had more to do with the fact that while two of the three were unknown to her, the third one was not…

Alicia remember this yoki from Seven years ago when she had been sent to get a reading on Riful, it was the former number 47 Clare, and when she had come back to the Organization for her new armor Alicia had gotten a good look at the warrior then...

Now many may wonder why Alicia would take the time to remember the name of someone so low rank, well that was easy, though it had been only by chance, Alicia and Clare had met just before she left to the north and when they met face-to-face, both were astounded at what they found in each other's features… It was like staring into a mirror… Apart from the fact that the Clare's hair extend just past her ears, she was a dead ringers for Alicia and Beth! And that was something Alicia just couldn't bring herself to forget, and now…

For the briefest of moments, if any had been there they would had sworn they saw a ghost of smile on Alicia's face, before she launch off, ready to go meet she new 'sister'…

-00000000-

Helen had never been so happy to see an Awaken being in her life, the one call Dauf in infected state, had show up and was able to distract Priscilla's attention so that she and Deneve could escape holding their now injured friend, Clare… They were head towards Destroyer hoping that it was possibly that, that thing that could stop Priscilla…

Things had gone to hell after Priscilla's appeared out of nowhere, before Clare, her releases as much yoki as she can and attacks, even going so far as to try awakening, but Priscilla always eludes her sword strikes and as for the awakening, it seem Jean's death put a wedge inside Clare's mind, stopping that from ever happening…

Priscilla defeats Clare easily, but before she can kill her a rod barrage was sent towards her, giving Deneve and Helen the time to snatch Clare up and escape…

"HUH!" Helen shouted in shock at feeling how soon Dauf's demise came, while Deneve look on, knowing they were running out of time…

"Damn she's already started to chase us, it just like you said... no matter what, and the result stays the same!"

"At this rate, she'll catch up before we reach that huge thing and what more, she dame fast!" Helen shouted once more starting to panic, than gasp in surprise when Deneve up to the front of them…

"Deneve!"

"Focus on protecting yourself and Clare…" Deneve yelled as her arm, bulging and becoming deformed as her yoki increase, than to Helen's Deneve actually abandon her own claymore by throwing it at Priscilla hoping to buy some time… But Priscilla appeared with no harm done…

"This is bad she caught up! So it was impossible after all, huh..." Helen said in frustrating, as Deneve to was becoming tiresome of this, and things were about to get worse…

"This one's… Attacking too…" with that, the Destroyer attacks the oncoming group, striking Priscilla and thankfully distracting her long enough for them to get away but Deneve had been pierced several times as she use her body to block the Destroyer spikes attack...

"Good grief... one thing after another..." Priscilla said in a dull tone as the Destroyer pierced her right shoulder by a tentacle. Irritated by this attempt to slow her down, she grabbed the tentacle and pulverized it, tracing back to and …

"You've gotta be kidding…" Deneve said as she and Helen watch in horror as Priscilla Destroy the Destroyer…

"No way... instant kill!" Helen yell out loud.

"thi, this…" their horror just kept growing as they saw that it was only the Destroyer's outer layer. Its shell was what Priscilla obliterated, The Destroyer's true form emerged, The real body of the Destroyer, was a shapeless dark mass of yoki, in the forum of many ghoulish faces and distorted bodies. It begins engulfing everything and draining its life energy, this was the site Alicia came upon after tracking Clare's yoki… Staying just out said it range, Alicia had a deep frown on her face when she realize just how much trouble Clare was in, and to top it off, it seem that Awaken being she had met earlier was here too…

"I'd better hurry…" She thought racing off to help…

-0000000-

"Oi, Deneve that arm..." Helen said in a panic, as her friend was out of breath and her arm was in deformed state.

"Every time that hits me it takes a part of my life force, I'm at my limit... I can't regenerate anymore…" Deneve said as Helen look on very worry about her friend, that when something caught her eye.

"Helen... just what are you carrying..."

"wh... what you say... Clare, of course…" that when it dawn on her that Helen had nothing in her arms, quickly looking she saw no sigh of Clare…

"But, but, I just had her… How can she just-" Helen said, weary as she looks all-round for her friend…

"Did you lose her doing the confusion? Quickly we have to find her before-" Deneve was cut off as Priscilla Burst out of the mass of yoki, grinning fiendishly…

"Enough already... let end our game of now-"Priscilla who had just destroy a large portion of the black mass, and was obviously happy about finally catching the person she wished to kill most stop her line at seeing something that surprise even her…

"Oh, and just what are you doing here, child…" Priscilla said an even tone, looking dead ahead of her, seeing where her view was going Helen and Deneve quickly turn around to see what she was looking at… Their eyes wide at who they saw…

"No way! What she doing here?" Helen gasps at the warrior looking down on them from the tree tops…"

Deneve was much the same, as this was the last person she thought they see, Claymore No. 1: Alicia the Black… And she was holding Clare…

To be continued.

Alright let me start off by saying it take me a long time to this one out and it my first Claymore fic so go easy my with the flames...