Are you Mami?- Chapter 1:Who is She?
Alice?'s POV
My name is most likely Alice and I came to this place called 'Wonderland' with no collection of my memories or my past once so ever. I am known here as the eighty-ninth Alice to take place in the Alice-game. My goal is to be able to be someone and not just nameless, but in order to do that, I've been told by the Queen of Hearts that I have to kill the White Rabbit to gain the title of Alice. Well, here goes nothing.
I was walking with the worst-time keeper in the world, Hatter. Literally, that guy always has his clock set on six o'clock. I can't ever learn the real time from him. For being terrible at being on time, he however is great at something; shooting the regrets that hunt me down. He 'claims' that it is the Mad Hatter's job to protect Alice from other roles or something like that. Anyway as I was saying, I was walking with Hatter until he all of a sudden stopped in place.
I stopped once I noticed Hatter wasn't following me anymore.
"Uhhh...Hatter?"
"Shhhhh..."He whispered for me to be quiet. Like heck I am!
"No, why the heck did you stop?" I asked him.
"Didn't you hear me? I told you to shut up, I hear someone coming." He replied as he teeth clenched on to his cigarette that usually dangled from his mouth.
"Well, you didn't tell me anything of that!" I angrily argued.
But, before either of us were able to speak again, a large dark cloud of regrets started to approach us.
"Uhhh...that's not good."I commented on the blob of regrets.
"Alice..." They muttered.
"Alice, RUN!" Hatter yelled to me as he pulled out his gun and started to shoot at the regrets.
I think it's best at the moment to follow what Hatter told me to do, so I decided to get the heck out of there. The regrets won't stop chasing me, the current Alice, until I give the title of 'Alice' back to them. Well, they are never going to receive the title of Alice back from me. I want to belong in the world and have a name, so I will become Alice.
I run away to Hatter's house, where I was staying at. I couldn't really stay anywhere else and the Hatter is one of the few people here that I can trust.
I open the front door of the house and slam it behind me and lock the door.
"Phew..."I add with a sigh as I stood in front of the door to keep those Alice-wannabes from trying to kill me. Thank goodness Hatter is letting me stay here or else the regrets would've probably got me by now.
"Alice..."I heard a voice mutter. Who the heck was that? Wasn't I here alone?
"Alice? Are you here Alice?" The girl's voice speaks again. I must be just imagining the regrets! That must be it, that's the only reasonable answer to why I hear this voice.
Footsteps begin to come closer to me and I see a shadow of a girl.
"Alice, why won't you let me become Alice? I am the seventeenth Alice."
Great, just what I need now; a regret.
I reach out my hand towards the door handle and tried to turn the doorknob. I thought the door was unlocked, but for some strange reason I couldn't open the door. This is just great; I'm trapped here with some sick-o.
"Come on Alice..." The regret started as she drew closer to me with a creepy smile.
I back away as far as I can away from her. But with my luck at the current moment, it wasn't far.
"...Don't you want to play?" The regret asked. I didn't answer her, I mean why should I? That's basically suicide!
But like most regrets I've seen so far, she had straight long blonde hair that went down to her ankles. She wore a blue headband that matched her blue dress.
"Come here..."She spoke again, now less than two feet away from me.
Before I knew it, I felt her hands on my shoulders as she pushed me into the wall.
"Give me back the title of Alice!" She demanded.
"What? Heck no!" I sputter out.
"Very well. If you cannot work reason, I guess I'll have to use force."
I felt the regret's grasp tighten around my shoulders nearing my neck. I start to lose my breath. I felt her slowly suffocate me.
"Is that enough force?" She asked with a crazy smile.
"Can't...breathe..."I wheeze out.
"Come on Alice-boy, make me become the next Alice!" The regret begged.
Before I could say or do anything else, I felt my eyelids grow heavy over my eyes. I almost collapsed from the lack of air.
BOOM
From what I can hear, I heard a faint gunshot.
I feel the regret's hands loosen from around my neck and she falls to the floor around my feet.
I wonder who shot the regret?
My eyes open up to see the regret dead on the floor with a bullet hole on her back.
I look up to see who killed the regret. I assume it's probably Hatter, but it wasn't. It was a face I've never seen here before.
I saw a silhouette of a girl with two curls for lower pigtails. She held a rifle in her hands, probably what shot the regret. The rest of her outfit was a white shirt underneath a brown corset and a brown skirt. Her yellow-blonde hair blew in the wind from the gunshot.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"I'm Mami Tomoe."
Great, just what I need, another girl. But if she has a name, then she can't be a regret. If she's not a regret, then who is she?