Layla
"A-alright. I, I'm not very good at this sort of thing. But, um, Miss Anna, I think you're a Water Shield." Layla said, "You can activate your powers with a chant. Later on I can try to teach you to skip the chant and the transformation, but you need to get more used to it first. And then maybe I can even try to adapt your powers to a more stable level so your prefrontal cortex doesn't melt if you try to us them wrong."
Layla realized she was rambling and quickly shut her mouth. She had a bad habit of going on and on whenever her personal creation, the system of Divine Inheritance, came up. "S-sorry, as I was s-saying, the chant:
"In the raging light of hope With the flow of chance To save myself from nightmares And the unwillingness to surrender Lend me your power That I may free myself"
Layla then turned to face Arya, her face turned a slight tinge redder than normal and she refused to make eye contact.
"M-mi-miss A-a-arya, you're a Fi-" She stopped, her jaw dropping in surprise and any sense of her timid nature vanishing, "That's impossible. Just a moment ago you were a Fire Eye, I swear you were a Fire Eye. But, you're not one now."
Layla felt her throat go dry, her eyes were surely wide with shock and fear. She unconsciously took a step back from Arya, trying to distance herself from this anomaly in her otherwise stable world.
"Miss Arya, how are you a Time Eye?" She asked, "Eth- I mean, um, Eden's Curse only gives the power over time to males, it hates everything connected to the goddesses, even our gender. The fact that it would trust you... Do you hate this society that much?"
Natalie
"So you'd rather live to face a hopeless world than die to the blade of reason? There is no in-between, either you accept her fate or you accept mine." Natalie spat, "It's pointless to go on, the world I've been shown is far worse than death. A world where everyone lives in constant agony, desperately begging to die but never being able to. That is why I must kill you now, to prevent that fate from occurring. I must end every living being, and then misery will end as well. But if you really wish to accept her world, then I will give it to you."
Without any warning, Natalie charged forwardly blindly. She made no attempt to strike, in fact she embraced Lana. She clasped her arms tightly around her, locking them together. A single tear rolled down her cheek and onto Lana's shoulder. A tear of regret and loss that carried with it the last grasps of her self-confidence.
With her final human breath, she whispered into Lana's ear, "Just remember, you chose this."
Haley
Haley graciously accepted Arturia's assistance. She quickly scanned her surroundings, Natalie and Lana were just beyond them, no more than a few meters away. Haley was surprised Lana had been able to back Natalie up that far, perhaps some part of Natalie still retained true Reason and knew that touching that Darkness would doom them all. But that hope was quickly dashed as Natalie spouted off something about the future and then charged into Lana's arms.
"NO!" Haley yelled, reaching out her hand as though she could stop it.
Lana's power surged up, flowing in and out of Natalie, piercing every inch of the poor girl's body, and filling her with Fear.
And then Natalie was gone. A slow clapping began to reverberate through the hall, a clap powered by mocking and scorn.
"Thank you two lovely Furies for assisting me." Came a voice from behind Haley.
She turned to see a girl clad in a blue ball gown, her eyes like the night sky.
"Oh no." Haley said, "Are you what I think you are?"
"If you think I'm the Eye of Hope, you would have been right a moment ago." She said menacingly, "But you see, Nayru just lost herself to fear and her body and soul switched places for a brief while, attempting to escape. However, I happen to have known exactly where she would shift back, and positioned myself so that her soul would instead fall into me. Now, I am more than the Eye of Hope, I am also the Goddess of Reason and The Mind."
To demonstrate, her hand flared up with the sword Natalie had just been brandishing against Lana. She walked over to Haley and caressed the girl's cheek, her expression on of pity.
"Poor Haley, she was so excited to help her big sister that she let Nayru get caught by someone else." Her expression shifted to cheerful, "Now then, I'll be off, I have to find someone with the power to destroy Nayru's mind before she comes up with a way to escape. Bye-bye!"
She spun about and quickly strode away, disappearing around the corner before Haley could react.
"This is very bad." Haley said once she was gone.
She turned to face Arturia, and was surprised to see a frozen blade shoved through the girl's abdomen.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Came a call from around the corner, "I stabbed Arturia while I was holding your face."
A childish giggle followed, slowly fading away. Haley was at a loss for words and actions. Not only had she let Nayru fall into her failsafe mode, she had even let the Eye of Hope capture her out of it. She had no idea what she would tell Katherine. She had failed, she had failed miserably. If only her power was more solid, a Light Eye simply wasn't suited to stopping someone, especially not someone with the innate ability to see through illusions. She should have just talked to Natalie in the first place, then things never would have gotten this far.