Wow! I have been so lagging in updating anything.
Manga: I'll say…
I didn't ask for you dumb a….
Anime: Now, now, language dear authoress.
(growls and walks off)
Anime: Guess we're left doing the answering the reviews for the preview huh?
Manga: You do it. (walks off in bad mood)
Anime: - -; … idiots… Whatever here I go! Yay!
Shii-chanchick: Anime: I'm glad you want to know what happens but word of warning the Authoress has no idea what's going to happen. But that won't affect you because you'll just read what she posts and be oblivious to what was supposed to be. - - She's a really bad writer sometimes.
It's supposed to be that way Anime.
Anime: Oops…
Mimi-san: Arigatou! I don't know how else to thank you. I really like Sir J.M. Barrie. Hehe!
Anime: You just like him because he made Peter Pan.
… but I want to go to Neverland… .
Anime: Idiot. Just be grateful she gave you words of encouragement. She had to remind you of Alice and her journey to help you.
. …So?
moguera: Arigatou to you as well! You were actually the first person I think to respond to that flame. You're review really inspired me to bounce back. Which I did! I wrote Retirement and I got good reviews for that. Yay! So happy! But once again I thank you. That flame actually had me improve my writing so I hope that my latest works will be more acceptable, although it already was, it's more appealing this way right?
Anime: sigh you get depressed to easily.
animepanda2008: Yay! You were the first person to review to this fic! I'm glad you enjoyed it. My personal opinion is that the first chapters seem kind of slow, but I promise it will pick up to have some definite word fights. That's just seems weird.
Anime: Duh, word fights? Please verbal arguments are more like it.
Anime: Well that ends the reviews!
Manga: (comes back) It's about time.
Where were you?
Manga: Off.
(jumps Manga and lands a punch)
Manga: (runs from authoress)
Anime: - -; Excuse us and you can go on with the fic.
Chapter 1- The New Alice
It's been a hundred years since my great-grandparents went up against Darva. What possessed them to do so? It had everything to do with Mayura, my great-grandmother Alice's sister, my great-grandfather's girlfriend. They say she went after her sister to repent for sending her into the darkness, but she mainly did it because Alice wanted Mayura to stop using the Maram to harm others. I can't be certain of any of this however. The legend of the great tale was lost… with the Lotis, one hundred years ago.
A distant rumble echoed through the city, leaving those awake fearful of the day, and those sleeping oblivious of the warning. Rain lightly fell over the darkened city. People moved along on the streets, faster as the rain fell faster. They moved quickly before coffee shops got too filled, before they were late for school, all but one. This is where we meet our heroine. Alice Wakamiya.
She walked without a care in the world. The rain soaked through her uniform and hair. She carried no bag and no umbrella, all she had was a light coat which wasn't helping. She stopped and looked up into the sky.
"Raining again in the city above the sky."
You ask what I mean by this comment. Well about fifty years ago something happened to the Earth that forced mankind to build above the clouds. So they built the cities above the first layer of clouds. The only weather we see up here is rain and sun. It's such blique weather. But then again I don't want to see this weather called hurricanes or tsunamis.
The weather, however, was not our problem. People say that something began to eat at the soil and animals. This forced every nation to build the cities above the sky. They say it took about 15 years to complete the cities and connect them. Whatever was eating the Earth was moving slow. The only animals we have are birds. I would like to see a real rabbit, but that isn't going to happen. They're extinct.
What do we eat? Well some scientists made artificial soil and other methods to make artificial food. So everything we eat is artificial. Like me.
"Like this damn city."
A large black fabric covered her face, blocking the rain from touching her.
Huh?
"Did you forget your stuff again?"
Alice turned to face the intruder of her thoughts. There stood Tomoe, her sister. Tomoe had her school bag, dry clothes, and archery equipment.
I sort of tend to forget them time to time. I really don't plan to go to school but you know… I don't like to upset Tomoe. We're all we have. You see, something or someone started killing off my family. It ended with our parents. I fear for Tomoe. Whoever did it will probably come after her and that is my only fear I life.
No, I don't fear for my life. Like I said earlier, I'm like the food, artificial. You see…
"Hey! Alice! Tomoe!"
Both girls turned to see a handsome boy running to them. He looked a lot like the first Kyou Wakamiya, but this boy's name is Kyou Higurashi.
Kyou is a son of two famous scientists like me and Tomoe. They're of many scientists that were after my parent's secret. They wanted the secret to giving life. And I'm that secret.
I am a genetic experiment by Takahashi and Taka Wakamiya. They were and still are the only ones capable of giving life outside a womb. My parents altered my genes so now I look exactly like my great-grandmother, the first Alice with long hair usually in a top knot, and glasses.
I was born the same day as Tomoe. I had emerged from my capsule on Tomoe's birthday. Both of my parents had been at the hospital, because it turns out I arrived ahead of schedule. So now my sister and I have the same birthday.
One of the little memories of our parents that I have also comes from that day. My father told me that if they knew ahead of time I was going to emerge, he would have been at the lab. My parents had found me two days later, hungry and sleeping. My mother told me, I hadn't even cried when I woke up. That scared them.
When they died, my father had left me a secret letter. In it he told me to seek out the old box in the attic if I ever got too deep in danger. Well I found the box when we moved out, it now resides somewhere in my closet. I never told Tomoe why I kept it.
A hand repeatedly waved in front of her face.
"Alice?"
Huh?
Alice looked to her "flower in bloom" sister.
"You're being rude. Kyou said good morning."
Alice turned her attention to him. He looked sincere and had a warm smile. It made her feel awkward. She bowed quickly and took off fast with all her things.
"See you at archery practice."
"Alice!"
Kyou always put her on edge. She knew she liked him, but come on she's invisible to everyone else. Anyways, if he planned on getting a girlfriend in this school, all bets were on her sister.
I wonder if Alice Seno-Wakamiya was like me.