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Welcome to District Y-010!
April 4th, 2013
Wonderful Wonder World by QuinRose; Story by Elise the Writing Desk (Bee)

1. Prologue

Somewhere unknown in England, there was a secret district. It was manipulated and hidden from authorities and the satellites. Why? Pretty much, because the district was an estate especially built for Criminals.

District Y-010. Just one of hundreds districts that were built, and it was unknown to those who weren't a member of any syndicates which resided in the district. There were Assassins, Yakuza, Gangsters and Mafia. There was no Police nor any Law-Enforcement stuff here, so guns were legal for everyone, and you could buy ammo or grenades like how you'd buy candies at local shops.

Which also meant, you'd be pretty fucked up living in this district. Despite living together, these Criminals weren't friendly to each other. Well, they just didn't. Why would they? They were Criminals, after all. I mean, why would a Criminal trust a Criminal, right?

And why you'd be fucked up here? Because, well, from the 'unfriendly-ness' of these four groups, blood, lives, ammo and hospitals had to be your daily-life.

District Y-010 lives up to its name.

Anyone who had no choice but to live here, well...just try and to 'live' up to it.

Because...YOLO, am I right?

~.X.~

Alice Liddell lived in Edensor, and went to a high school in Sheffield. Her parents worked away from her. Mr. Lewis Liddell was the United Kingdom's High General of Defense. Mrs. Carroll Liddell worked in CIA, and had always been moving.

She had two sisters. Lorina Liddell, who was the Vice Supervisor of their Grandmother's Corporation. Alice lived in Lorina's house, yet Lorina tend to work away for weeks and only came home for a day.

Then, there was Edith, whom she hadn't heard of for years. Edith was just two years younger than Alice, but they were separated when Alice was thirteen...for...some educational reason.

"Good morning, Voldemort." Alice yawned, then tried to reach her baseball bat which she named Voldemort, to knock off her alarm clock softly.

The baseball bat—er, Voldemort, was a precious gift from her mom when she came back from Hollywood. Her mom had that bat signed by the actor of Voldemort, Ralph Fiennes. Ever since that, she called the bat Voldemort, and was inseparable from it.

"So, Voldemort, milk with your tea or lemon...?" Alice asked, while softly putting down Voldemort on one of the dining chair, then went to brew the tea. "What was that? Lemon? You're pretty sour today, huh, Voldemort? Let's hope my batch today would be a good one."

Despite how nutty this was, let's just believe that Voldemort really said that he wanted lemon tea.

It was because Alice had always been alone. Somehow, she couldn't make friends. At first day of school, her schoolmates were friendly at her, but the following, they stopped pretending that she existed. Alice had been moving to many places a lot of times, and this always happened, so she was accustomed to this.

Still, accustomed to being avoided didn't make her feel less lonely. Which was why she tend to imagine things talking to her.

"Tea cups, where are you?" Alice called while searching through cabinets. "Shut up, kettle. Yes, kettle, I know the water's boiling! Just shut up and let me find tea cups! Your noise is making me nervous!" she snapped at the whistling kettle.

Which of course, didn't shut up. I mean, it was just a kettle.

"Oh, Voldemort, thank goodness, the tea is good today." Alice sighed in relief while pouring a cup for her baseball bat, and for herself. She sat down and pulled her textbook which she had worked yesterday. "I still have the time to finish this...I just need...Pencil! Pencil, where are you? I told you not to leave this spot!" she yelled while frantically looking under the table. "There you are, you little...! Hah, I'm just glad you're okay." She sighed and took her pencil under the table, but then hit her head.

"Ouch...That startled me...Oh, that's the postman..." she carefully put the pencil. "Stay there." She added, before taking off.

So, Alice Liddell was just a normal lonely girl who lived in the peaceful Edensor. She didn't really have anything that she wanted, maybe just a little more company that actually talks back to her, but she was grateful for what she had.

That was until the letter came.

"Ooooh~ A letter from Lorina~ oooh! Look, Voldemort...What do you think of this?" Alice showed the envelope to her baseball bat, and then took Voldemort with her, so they could sit together on the sofa.

"Wow, a ticket...Do you think she's sending us for a vacation?" Alice asked while waving a plane ticket which came with the letter.

"No? Well, we'll find out...Let's see...Dear Alice, I'm sorry I haven't been home for a month, but now I need you to do a favor This is very urgent and is related to your own good, so just do this. Use this ticket to go to Grandma Anne's place. The address is at the end of this letter. You can just call a taxi and the driver will take you there. I know this is sudden, but I think you have to live with Grandma for a year or so. I promise this is for your own good. Love, Lorina. Hmm..." she then stared at the ticket again.

"Well, Voldemort, it's not about your bad feelings, so we're going whether you like it or not...Of course you're coming with me! Why do you say you want to stay here? Oh, bad fortune telling yesterday? Pffft! Voldemort, you're Voldemort. You don't watch fortune channel."

~.X.~

Later on...

"Uh, excuse me...I need you to take me to this address." Alice said, holding Voldemort in one hand and the address in the other, her back carrying her stuff.

"Oh sure, where is it little lady?"

"Victorianne Mansion, District Y-010."

"Oh, that's—" the taxi driver's eyes widened at her, then twitched.

"N-No—NO! NO! GO AWAY!" he shrieked, and then frantically grabbed his container, pulling out a bunch of pounds. "TAKE ALL MY MONEY, JUST GO AWAY FROM ME!" he shoved all the money to her and then jumped into the car and drove off.

Alice twitched, then stared at the address. "I didn't say Satanic Street Number 666 or Hitler's Haunted Mansion Number 13 by accident, right?" she hummed, and then frowned at Voldemort. "Voldemort! Stop about that bad feeling stuff, it's just your imagination! Now we just gotta find another—ah, taxi driver!"

"Huh? Oh...Victorianne Mansion, huh? Where is it again? District—NO! GO AWAY FROM ME!"

"STOP IT! T-TAKE MY MONEY! JUST DON'T MAKE ME DRIVE THERE!"

Alice twitched even more as every one of the taxi drivers she had asked just ran away at the mention of District Y-010. Was it a scary place or what? Why would there be such a town?

"Voldemort, what do we do now? Should we walk? But we don't even know where to go!" Alice sighed, and sat down near a pillar, hugging her baseball bat. "What? Booking a ticket back to Sheffield? Pfft! Are you nuts, Voldemort? There's nothing wrong with living in Grandma's place. I heard from Ina, Victorianne Mansion is super fab...I'm sure you'll like it, Voldemort!"

"Victorianne Mansion?"

Alice flinched when she just realized that someone had been beside her for a while. He had dark brown hair with glasses, and he was smoking. Actually, he was very handsome...super handsome. Sexy, even.

However, Alice was one of those girls who were incapable of detecting 'handsome-ness'.

"I can take you there for three hundreds pounds." He breathed out smoke.

"Um, sure. That'll do." The dark blonde just handed a check immediately.

The man twitched, and then snatched the check, then glared at Alice.

(Was she serious!? Just like that? Was she an idiot or just super rich?)

"I change my mind. Five hundreds."

Alice shrugged and quickly pulled out her check book again. "Sure, no...pro...ble...mo. Just let me...aha, here, two hundreds more." She handed the check again.

The man snatched the check again, and twitched even more. "Is this for real?"

"Sure, you can exchange it right now at the bank over there, if you don't believe me, kind sir."

Exactly what he did, right away. And he could only glare at the bucks of money slammed on the counter in front of his face.

His glasses slipped off his nose.

~.X.~

Alice watched the airport fading away through the fog. The area was pretty foggy, and the air was surely damp. As the airport was gone, she sighed and leaned her back to the seat, and smiled at Voldemort.

"Good thing we meet this kind sir, don't you think, Voldemort?" Alice grinned. But then it faltered for a while. "What do you mean I'm stupid? You think I'm too naive to just shove five hundreds of check to a stranger and expect him to take me to Grandma's place? Pfft! Voldemort, you're the one who needs to have a little faith." She easily retorted her imaginably-talking baseball bat.

The driver just twitched. (Yeah, she's nuts.)

"I mean, you'll take me to District Y-010, right, sir?" Alice asked politely, just to make sure.

"Of course, no problem." He shrugged. "I live there, so...yeah. It's not a wrong thing to ask payment when doing a favor for a stranger, right?"

Alice nodded. "Of course, it is! Voldemort, hear that? It's a win-win situation."

(She's stupid.)

After a while of driving, Alice suddenly frowned at some figures at the side of the roads. They were like large crosses standing on nowhere.

"What are those? Scarecrows?"

"Oh, those are just dead bodies. The ground is full of them, so we don't really have more space to bury the rest, which is why we just impale or tie them up to crosses." The driver nonchalantly explained.

...

Alice twitched. What? So many dead bodies that they don't have anymore place to bury?

"H-How's that possible? Did a war happened? A massacre, maybe?"

"Ahaha, of course not!" the driver laughed. Alice was relieved for a moment, but then, he added; "It's just because people dies everyday in this town. Up to twenty or thirty per days...I think."

Alice twitched, and then slowly grabbed Voldemort.

"District Y-010...I-Is that like the ones in...Hunger Games?" she gulped.

"Nah. Because it's not just two from each districts. Everyone kills each other here, game or not, accident or not. And there are Yakuza...Mafia...and other stuff. We call it District YOLO instead of Y-010, though."

"Please stop the car and let us walk back to the airport."

The driver glanced at the now pale girl through the mirror, and shrugged.

"Sure. Let me just find a place with no landmines so at least you won't blast and dirty my car."

"...On a second thought, just take me to the mansion, k-kind sir."

Alice glared at Voldemort and hyperventilated.

(Voldemort, I don't know why and how, but...)

(I'm pretty sure we're fucked.)

Another "Welcome" Series. This is kind of based from my old one, "Teaching Hearts". (Don't forget, I was Miss Holidays, so I'm not plagiarizing)

It's a pretty long prologue, and it's another teaser. It'll come after the other two "Welcome Series" are over (which is still a very LOOOOONG time).