Kill me. Whatever. Oh yeah, please note that this is just a flashforward. Not a prologue, nor the first chapter.
Kokoro!
November 24th, 2012
©Elise the Writing Desk, Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice©QuinRose
The sky was red, houses were burnt. Chef Gray Ringmarc was busy dodging the fireballs shot by the peculiar red dragon. That day, they were going to the Dragonman's nest to save Prince Blood.
"Shoot him!" Gray ordered as he dodged to the back of a water tank, and at once, Dee shot an enormous volume of water from his hands. Unfortunately, the big flying lizard had turned to his half-human form.
"Hah! That was close, Elf!" Ace Dragonclaws snickered as he flashed away. He glanced over his wings and smirked. "Oh no, you're not getting him!" he fled back to his nest, where he kept Prince Blood chained onto his cave.
"Crap, he's here!" Dum grimaced as he dodged a big fireball, backing away from the chains he was working.
"You're so slow, Elf!" Blood spat, struggling in his chains. His eyes widened as the Dragonman feld past him. "Look out!"
BAM!
A big explosion burnt the cave, but Dum jumped to the back of a huge rock before he was roasted. Ace laughed cheerfully as he floated right under the cave's ceilings.
"Return our Prince or we'll get the whole army set on you, Dragonman!" Dum threatened.
Ace scoffed, crossing his arms as his wings kept moving. "That'll be fun. The more the merrier! It's been so lonely...Man, I'm a genius! I should kidnap the Princess too! Then everyone will come!"
CLANG
"Okay, go home safely, Your majesty." Alice bowed. Blood sighed and moved his shoulders to warm up.
"About time..."
"What!? Hey! That's not fair!" Ace turned into the full dragon-form and was about to snatch the Prince back, but the girl then held up a giant sword and expressionlessly slashed it.
"Holy crap—"
"Good one, Alice!" Dum praised. "I'll make sure to get Prince save. You distract him!"
"Understood." Alice took out another jumbo sword. Ace backed to a safe distant in the air and watched the girl easily jumped onto a cliff in the cave easily, weightlessly.
What is she...?
"What is lonely?" she suddenly asked, pointing one of the sword at him. "You said that you are lonely."
Ace raised his eyebrows and put his hands to the back of his head as he floated casually.
"You know, the feeling when a person is alone? That's lonely. That's why I kidnapped Prince, so we'll play around and the army comes."
"But you're not a person." Alice bluntly said. "Or by that, you're saying that all living creatures may feel lonely."
"You're...Oh, I get it. You're not a living entity?" Ace grinned wider, his sharp eyes scanned the mysterious girl, and then he clicked his tongue. "Ahh, I get it now..." he flicked a fireball from thin air.
"You're not human, are you?" Ace questioned, his wings were ready to flash.
Alice shook her head and then prepared her battle stance.
"I am a Living Doll, created by Professor Julius." She explained.
"That's good." Ace suddenly shot across the cave like a piercing bullet, and appeared right in front of the Living Doll as he held up his fiery fists. "This is gonna be a good battle!"
Alice dodged at the right time and defended her front with both swords.
"My mission is not to give you a good battle." She said bluntly as she slid away from his attacks, and moved forth rapidly, trying to cut something from the Dragonman.
Ace easily defended himself from the swords as he turned his arms into the Dragon claws.
"Right now, I am going to eliminate you." Alice said without any expressions as she gave out a torrent stabs which easily dodged.
"Huh, that's interesting." Ace grinned mischievously as he collected energy to his fists. "I thought the purpose of Living Dolls are to accompany their creators."
He noticed her moves slowed down instantly at this statement, and he took his momentum.
"You exist for nothing else." He spat as he shot a punch to right to the Doll's face.
Alice's head was empty despite she saw the fiery fist was coming right onto her face, eyes wide.
She existed for nothing else...?
Alice didn't react at all as she was thrown so far away by that punch on her cotton-face. Her minds went back to the first days of her artificial life. He's right, that Dragonman was right.
Why'd Professor Julius created her? Most wizards created a Living Doll using artificial emotions or characters such; crazy-love, obsessive-love, masochist, sadistic, etc. Professor Julius gave her the 'curious' character.
She remembered what Chef Gray told her.
"Having the curious trait will make you able to learn many things, unlike average Living Dolls."
But why? Why would Professor wanted her to learn many things? Why did he created her in the first place, anyway? What's the purpose of her existence?
Man, she didn't see that coming from a Dragonman, of all creatures...