Twewy human sacrifice.
I found the Vocaloid song for this a long time ago and only recently decided to go back to listen to it. Without my realising, I started to find fandoms to match the characters to in the song and eventually realised that TWEWY is pretty much perfect for this. It was a surprise to me.
If you want the song, go find it on youtube, its 'Alice's Human Sacrifice'
So here's the first part. The red ALICE. I enjoyed writing this.
When Joshua woke up he was sitting in a cold meadow with his gun in one hand and a sword in the other. The meadow was a pretty sight, it held beautiful white roses and tall green grass while tiny silver puddles where scattered around after an obvious rainfall. The odd sky was green and the sun was pale pink. The air smelled of the grass and the fallen rain with a hint of sweets and music pumping through the land like a base melody.
He didn't know what to think at first, this place was completely new to him and he didn't know how to react to the surroundings. He had been to alternative universes but... Joshua couldn't put his finger on what was different about this universe. Something was too off about the atmosphere but he didn't know what… eventually he just flipped his silver hair back in defeat and wiped his cheek as he felt something flitter across it. He could feel something wet and sticky on his fingers as he pulled them away and when he pulled his hand down in front of his face he found crimson red blood that had come from his own body. He leaned over with a smirk on his face to look into a small puddle that acted as a mirror. He could see that the blood he had wiped off his cheek had been replaced with more blood that had formed a perfect shape of a spade just under his eye.
"That's your mark," Joshua heard a voice from behind him. He turned to see a small child with pink hair and wings wearing shorts and a long sleeved shirt.
"Who are you?" the boy asked but the child just giggled.
"Would you like to become my ALICE?" it asked causing the silver haired boy to look down in confusion. There was too much of a pause and the child quickly made up its mind "Too late! You can be my first and only ALICE!" It said before it skipped away humming a song.
"Ichibanme ARISU wa isamashiku…" the child sang as it walked away from Joshua and towards the next hill over. Joshua blinked as he looked after it and in that time the child had disappeared.
"Strange…" he said aloud as he looked down at the sword in his hand. He tossed the gun aside after deciding that this sword would be a more effective weapon for short range attacks and it would last much longer than a small gun with no extra bullets.
Joshua made his way into the nearest town and saw the masses of people who lived there. He always enjoyed going into the town in his home land as there was always someone new and interesting to talk to. That's what happens when you live in a town near a large harbor, Joshua thought as he made his way into the streets at the end of the old sandy-bricked town.
As he walked through the new town, the faces all turned to stare at him with big wide eyes. The ALICE tried to ignore it, he had one place to go; the woods. He had seen a white rabbit run into the woods and decided to follow it. People would stop to talk to the boy with a blood splattered face but he kept moving until people started grabbing at him to stop him.
One girl in particular managed to talk to him. She had bright orange hair and wore a pair of pink earphones around her neck. She wasn't particularly tall but her hair flowed down in a mermaid-tail with a tie at the bottom. She wore a small flowing black dress covered in frills and ribbons of all kinds. It was almost gothic in style.
"Nii-chan said that people with blood on their face are bad," she simply said while staring up at the silver haired ALICE. Joshua looked down at her with cold stone eyes and sighed.
"I am an ALICE, this is my mark. Do you know what that means?" he asked. The girl looked puzzled for a second before she looked over and called to another child, a little boy with white earbuds. The boy held up a finger to tell her to wait but quickly started to trot over to where we stood. He had black hair and deep green eyes. His clothes were torn but when he looked at the girl he didn't look annoyed that she had called him over… he just looked bored.
"This boy is an ALICE. He doesn't know what it means," the girl announced with a small giggle. The boy seemed to perk up immediately and giggle too.
"He doesn't know what an ALICE is?" the voice the boy spoke with was unbelievably low for his age. "How can he be an ALICE if he doesn't know what one is?" the two laughed and Joshua just stood and looked at the two.
"So. Are we skipping past the part where you tell me what an ALICE really is?" he said with a growl of irritation.
"The first Alice was a wrathful woman of the Spade. Righteously, she held a sharpened blade within her hand. Never hesitating to slay all in her way. Creating paths of blood that followed her through Wonderland," the children recited together. They both looked up at the same time and their smiles turned to impossibly wide face spitting grins while their eyes seemed distant.
In the eyes in the ALICE, the two children suddenly started to rot away. Their flesh fell away and only rotted old bones remained in some places of their skulls. He held in his yelp of shock as one of the children held out a hand to him. The hallucinating ALICE couldn't stop himself from recreating the children's words. In his head up until the point he was at. Slaying all in her way…? He thought to himself with a smirk. His smile widened as pictures of blood spilling on pavements and walls alike filled his brain. His smile turned into a face splitting grin as he found his mind falling deeper and deeper into a pool of nothingness. The grey haired Alice began to lose himself in thought, only to be pulled back when he felt something hovering over his arm.
He let out a yelp as one of the two touched him before cutting at it with his sword unintentionally. The bony arm fell away and blood started to pool around it. Ripped flesh hung from the old brittle bones of the arm and the rotting skin broke away from the bon as soon as it hit the floor. The skeleton girl started to scream.
A sharp sword… the ALICE thought to himself. His thoughts were interrupted by the blood curdling nails-on –a-chalkboard noise that was the skeletons screaming.
"Shut up SHUT UP!" the mad boy shouted. He ripped at his hair, pulled at his ears, scrunched his eyes shut and stomped his feet to try and get the noise out of his head. Soon, he realised that his sword would shut the child up and slashed away at the bones and rotting flesh of both children until they were silent piles of flesh and bones.
Blood splattered across his nose and cheeks but he didn't even notice. The violet eyes of the boy turned red and his shirt was stained with the colour also, the blood of children was the most innocent blood he could find, and he had dirtied himself with it before any other blood could touch him.
The ALICE didn't see it. He didn't realise the two children were still human and normal outside of his head. Around him, people started to gather. Cold icy tears ran down his face from anger and disgust at the... the bodies around him. He didn't stop to ask himself why he was crying. Many survivors of that day believe he subconsciously knew of the lives he was taking.
All he could see was rotting flesh. Everyone was rotting flesh. Everyone must die.
He slashed his way through the people to make his way towards the forest he wanted to be in. he needed to find the white rabbit. He wanted to ask it how to get out. That was the story wasn't it? The white rabbit lead the original Alice in, he could lead him out!
At the entrance to the forest, the red ALICE was stopped by a wall of thick metallic vines. His sword clinked off the metal and threw him back with the force of his strike.
"What…?" he asked as he held onto them. He could see the rabbit just beyond and attempted to squeeze his small body through the gap in the bars to get to the rabbit.
"ALICE has been naughty," I voice said. Joshua admitted his defeat and for a second his eyes changed back to his normal purple. He pulled himself away from the thorny vines only to see large cuts on his sides, arms and hips so that blood ran down the tattered remains of his shirt.
Behind him, the silver haired ALICE saw the small child who had come to see him when he first got here.
"Killing children and killing friends… now I will have to punish ALICE," the child said. As soon as the words were spoken the vines started to move. Two vines wound around Joshua's wrists causing him to yell out as thorns dug into them and eventually they started to bury themselves into his palms. Two more vines wound themselves around his legs, the thorns pinpricked all the way down his skin. The last was around his middle and the pain caused the silver haired boy to call out for help.
"Nobody will help you ALICE…" the child giggled in a lower than usual voice as he pulled out a red rose and started to pluck the petals off of it as he sang the song of the trapped ALICE.
"Ichibanme ARISU wa isamashiku
Ken o katate ni, fushigi no kuni.
Ironna mono o kirisutete
Makka na michi o shiite itta.
Sonna ARISU wa, mori no oku.
Tsumibito no you ni tojikamerarete.
Mori ni dekita michi igai ni,
Kanojo no sei o shiru sube wa nashi." The child sung. By the time it had finished, all the petals were gone from the red flower and pooled on the floor beneath the child like blood.
"I'm going to leave you know, ALICE. I hope you enjoy solitude," the child giggled before he started to walk away.
"At least tell me who you are!" Joshua called after the child. He hated being outdone, but he hated more not knowing what had sentenced him to his death. The child turned around and smiled evilly.
"I am the dream," the child smiles before he starts to walk away again until he disappeared outside of Joshua's vision. The forest seemed to close in around Joshua and as a last resort, the Red ALICE gave out a loud scream of pain that nobody would ever hear.
Thanks for reading! I should have the next chapter up by tomorrow, maybe even tonight.