Sword Art Online ALICIZATION- Reversal

Chapter 58- Desperation

I watched as Nautilus disappeared. Nautilus had always been unable to fight because of his fear... yet, he had faught... he faught like professional Floor Clearer from SAO. My subordinate who was always paralyzed, helpless... had saved Kirito, he did what I couldn't do. What I was too weak to do... if he was a coward, what did that make me? 

Nothing. It made me useless, as if I might as well have been a ghost. Yet, I was the Vice Commander of the Knights of The Blood Oath, and it was my job to lead and look after my guild. And I couldn't even fight with one member. 

I slowly reached for my sword, standing up, as I dashed to PoH. I looked blades with him and his weapon pushed me back, I went into a backflip and kicked his chin in the process. When I landed, I went into Crucifixion in an attempt to damage PoH's hand so he couldn't keep fighting, yet it didn't work and he used Hell Wave! The energy wave pushed me backwards, cutting into my nose and lips, but my armor had stopped the entire wave from moving forward. I looked to PoH and tuned out his rambling, it didn't matter. I then used Linear as I tried to impale him, he blocked it and kicked me in the kidney which made me cough up spit! He kicked me in the chest and got on my chest, attempting to behead me.

Closing my eyes in fear, I turned my head in preparation for the worst. Yet I never felt the pain. Instead, I heard a metallic clang. Slowly opening my eyes, I saw Klein! "Klein, you can move?" I asked him. He stayed stoic and slowly twisted his katana, moving to stab PoH causing PoH to leap backwards. Klein turned and looked to me, smiling a bit. The redheaded man looked weird with his hair down flat. "Sure looks like it, anyway, sorry I took so long. Now, come on, we still owe him a few ass kickings, don't we, Asuna?" Klein said as he extended his hand to me, and I smiled and took it, letting him help me to my feet. I nodded and then looked to PoH.

I backflipped back and entered the stance for Vorpal Strike while Klein entered his stance for 'Zekku'. This really reminded me of old times. It was like we were in Aincrad again, leading our Guilds into Boss Raids. PoH charged at Klein, slashing barely dodging the Sword Skill but PoH went right into my crosshair! I immediately lunged and stabbed my blade into his chest, the energy extension pushing him backwards. He barely recovered in time to block Klein's flurry of sword strikes which pushed PoH back until he broke of the engagement. He spun around midair, trying to cut my in half as he fell. I waited until the last moment and rolled forward, barely grazing his leg with the blade. Yet before I could move, he kicked me with looking and broke my nose. 

I was knocked away and PoH was on me in a second, my eyes widening from fear. Yet, Klein blocked it and proceeded to parrying the attack, uppercutting PoH with free hand. Klein was breathing heavily. "Don't worry, Asuna, you catch your breath. I'll hold him off..." Klein told me before charging in. The proceeding fight could hardly be called a fight, it was more like PoH bullying Klein. Yet, still, it bought me time. I got up and ran in to fight again PoH with Klein after a minute or so. This time, after I healed our wounds a bit, we were able to give PoH a run for his money.

Klein and I tag-teamed PoH and used frequent combo attacks and maneuvers. This allowed us to fight evenly with PoH. And when we nearly split him open, PoH knocked Klein over torwards Lizbeth and then kicked me to Kirito. PoH then raised his weapon and rambled on about the nationality bullshit. Afterwards, the self-proclaimed Prince of Hell who had tormented me and Kirito for so long had leaped torwards me and Kirito, trying to behead us both. 

However, right before impact, I heard something. I looked up and saw... dragons? Had Renly mounted his dragon? No... that wasn't it! Regarded, the dragons burned thousands of the Red Knights. Yet, what clued me off was the sound of the words "ENHANCE ARMAMENT!!" Followed by a stream of golden flower petals, punctuated by Alice landing before me. 

"Alice? What are your doing here?" I asked her, surprised and slightly angered to see her. "Keeping my promise." Alice responded as she looked back at me. "Besides, I had a feeling something would go wrong. It seems I was right, Kirito almost died." Alice told me before looking to PoH. "I will be your opponent." Alice told him as she entered a stance. PoH just raised an eyebrow. "Oh? And who they hell are you?" Alice remained stationary. "That is none of your concern. But if you must know, I am the Integrity Knight tasked with safeguarding the Life of Kirito." 

She said before throwing a ball of fire at PoH, who narrowly avoided it. That surprised me as I hadn't expected her to be able to do such a thing, she didn't do anything like it against me. Then Alice ran PoH, using the 'Rage Spike' skill before entering Vertical Square. PoH managed to keep up but Alice broke the stalemate by backflipping, kicking PoH in the chin. Her kick imparted enough force to knock him into the air, which she exploited by throwing a ball of ice at his chest which pushed him to the ground. Yet, he got up. Then they continued to dual, however, PoH eventually started to overpower Alice. Then, Alice sprung right back as her sword turned golden and extended. The blonde proceeded to ragdoll PoH for a while until PoH's cleaver impacted Alice's armored shoulder, causing her to scream and he then kicked her away. 

The Killer walked to her but before he could finish it, to my shock and relief, an arrow hit him in the back. It was Philia! Philia and Alice then faught together after Alice, presumably, relocated her shoulder. They were winning against PoH but Philia, who had a slight limp and was covered in bruises to begin with, had an arm and both leg severed befire being kicked away. Then I watched in amazement as Alice faught against PoH, nearly killing him 14 times in 40 seconds. Yet, when PoH looked the most vulnerable; he kicked her knees, sending out shards of cartilage and bone out of the back, before he cut off her hand and kicked her away. Her sword landed several meters in front of Kirito as I had moved to my other friends to try healing them. Yet PoH made the red players fight against each other and I whimpered.

'Please, Kirito... I'll give you my life, my heart, everything... just open your eyes!' I thought as I teared up and felt an odd warmth and tingling sensation fill my entire body.