Once, there was a tiny dream. Such a tiny dream it was, No one knew who had dreamt it. The tiny dream began to worry. 'I don't want to disappear this way. How can I make people dream of me?' The tiny dream thought and thought, and then came up with an idea. 'I'll make humans get lost in me, and let them create the world.'
Name: Eiji; eternity Age:16 Height:5'10" Hair: Black, medium Eye:pure black, Alice's see an illusion of something they trust
Weapon:Creates dreams in which they never wake up
Name: Akako; red child Alice: First Age:23 Height:5'7" Hair: Brown, short military cut Eye: Red brown
Weapon: Silver sword with a steel blade, Spade ruby in the center of the hilt
Name: Sukai; sky blue Alice: Second Age:29 Height:5'8" Hair: Blue, medium length Eye: Saphire blue
Weapon: Silver revolver with a single blue rose next to the trigger with two green leaves and silver vines
Name: Kumiko; beauty of the century Alice: Third Age:17 Height:5'5 1/2" Hair: Light green, long pigtails Eye: Emerald green
Weapon:Poison
Name: Kira; feminine form Alice: Fourth Age:14 Height:5'2" Hair: Gold, wears a white bow Eye: Gold
Weapon: Small katana, silver with a gold hilt and a topaz heart at its center
Name: Akira: masculine form Alice: Fourth Age:14 Height:5'4" Hair: Gold, wears in ponytail Eye: Gold
Weapon:Small katana, silver with a gold hilt and a topaz heart at its center
The First Alice
Her arm hurt, blood pooled around the torn appendage. She pulled her sword out of the man she had just killed and feigned to the left hitting him in the right side. He dropped to the ground dead, blood littered the ground and the clang of swords could be heard in the air. Something whistled past her ear and then she felt a sharp pain in her neck. she had been hit with a poison dart. Akako pulled it out and kept fighting, she felt three more enter her body and then the men started to retreat. She smiled ruefully at the fallen on the ground then stabbed her sword into the ground. She kneeled praying the poison wouldn't kill her. Akako laid her head on the hilt of her sword and closed her eyes, she could feel herself falling and then warm arms picking her up. Her head lolled onto the muscled chest of her fiance`, Kanta. he clutched her tightly willing her to not fall asleep.
"Dont fall asleep Akako, you promised me we would get through this. You promised to marry me after this," he raised her left hand to her glazed eyes and showed her the engangment ring." See this? This was our promise to always be together remember? Please don't leave me..." She raised a bloody hand and placed it on his cheek wishing tehre was no war, so that she could have married Kanta like she had promised.
'So dear Akako wants a world without war does she?' the dream smiled evilly and set to work creating Akako's "perfect" world.
Akako's eyes closed and she could feel her consciousness slipping away. Her eyes opened to pitch blackness that cocooned her, she wanted to fall asleep so badly but she knew she shouldn't. She stood up woozy, and nearly fell over. She heard someone giggle and turned to find a teenage boy in a white spotlight, he waved and she felt herself wave back. The teenager had black hair that framed his face covering his eyes, he wore a white button up shirt with a red ribbon around his neck, black pants, and black shoes. A spotlight illuminated the the Brunette girl and she fingered the seams of her leather pants nervously, she had never liked spotlights especially since joining the Army. When you were hit with a spotlight you had just been caught, you had just been killed. She looked at her hand and found that she had a red spade tattoo on her hand that she had not had before.
"Don't worry you didn't get drunk and get a tattoo you have to get one when you enter this place," the boy said standing next to her. He pulled the sleeve of his too large shirt up to reveal a joker, its face grinning manically." So who are you?" though he already knew her name, he wanted to play with his new 'toy'.
After a short pause she replied," Akako, my name is Akako. So where is 'Here' exactly, and who are you?"
He looked at her and then laughed, she became angry and hit him in the back of the head. He looked at her with red brown eyes exactly like hers and she smiled at him, he smiled back knowing she was seeing and illusion," Sorry," he said wiping tears from his eyes and rubbing the back of his head. "This is your dream silly. You wished for a place without war so I made you one. And my name is Eiji."
"But I can't stay in this world even if there is no war I promised to marry Kanta. I love him!" she cried out.
Eiji frowned and then smiled manically," Alright the red path will lead you out, but I am not going to tell you what or where that is. Bye-bye Akako." The darkness invaded Akako's vision and she blacked out.
Akako woke up in a field of flowers next to a large forest. The flowers were a rainbow of colors and smelled like fall, the grass was warm and she was tempted to just stay here for a while longer but she pushed herself up and walked toward a large hill. When she was at the top she gasped looking down at a small village like town, children ran around in circles playing with their friends, adults talked happily together. It was beautiful. She could feel tears forming in her eyes, she had so badly wanted children, and Kanta had felt the same. She walked to the center of town and looked at the people, most wore old time clothes; all the women were wearing dresses and the men trousers. Akako thought that she should be getting strange looks from the villagers but when she looked down she saw that she was dressed quite differently. Akako was wearing a red dress that reached just past her knees, she had a white apron like corset that laced in the front with frill at the chest and a white collar with brown lace tying it together. Akako also noticed she still had her sword sheath strapped to her waist along with her sword, she fingered the seems and got a wif of the cologne Kanta had sprayed on it. A boy came up to her and gave her a red rose, a white ribbon was tied around the stem. She was careful not to cut herself on its thorns, when a little girl came up to her and grabbed her hand.
"Onii-san are you an Alice?" she asked innocently. Akako gave her a questioning look," An Alice is someone who comes from somewhere else. Most of the time they come here because they want to escape... but some come by accident, we call them an Alice. We call them Alice because they are like the original Alice who came a long, long time ago. She was pretty like Onii-san but she went back. Most who come by accident want to leave like the original Alice but they never do and learn to love it here and then they are no longer an Alice."
Through out this the girl had been walking with Akako in tow, she turned to look at her and Akako was forced to remember Eiji. The girl had long dishwater blonde hair that reached just short of her waist, she had a sweetly deceptive smile that made Akako's teath hurt with the sincerity, Akako looked at her green eyes and was reminded of her younger brother. Akako clenched her teeth remembering why she had joined the Army.
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Akako's throat hurt from the fire so did her eyes, she could feel smoke invading her lungs and she coughed. Akako hugged the still body of her younger brother Akemi to her chest. The enemy that had killed her parent so many years ago had come back to their small village to burn it to the ground. They had set fire to her house, Akako and Akemi had been asleep when the fire started in Akemi's room. He had passed out as Akako pulled him out of his room. She hugged him as he opened his eyes, they were bright green like their mother's. He had dark brown hair like Akako and the same small build, he coughed weakly as she dragged him form the burning building. She placed a wet cloth that a kind villager had given her and pressed it to his forehead and then his mouth it helped with his breathing and she pulled him into her chest. An enemy of the Misakanna (ruler) came riding through with a sword at his side. Akako curled into a ball with her brother close to her heart, he started crying as the man came closer and Akako tried to console him. A soldier heard her and grabbed Akako by the hair dragging her away from her brother. Akako screamed as the man put the blade of the sword to her brother's neck. The soldier silenced her with a slap across the face then kissing her on the cheek, she forced herself not to puke on him, it would not help her brother.
"Please leave my brother alone, he has done no harm and we have no way to pay you if you wnat money. He is my only family, please!" Akako cried as the soldier holding her brother hit him with the side of his sword.
Akako became enraged and flew of the handle, she jumped the soldier holding her brother an snapped his neck without much resistance. Akako whirled around and the world seemed to turn in slow motion. She heard Akemi scream and then it was cut short with a gurgle. A blade protruded from his chest and Akako watched as her brother fell off the blade and hit the ground. Akako screamed and grabbed the sword from the soldier who was grinning at the work he had done. Akako used the hilt as a bludgeoning device and hit him in the back of the head. She heard a crack and he dropped to the ground dead, she kicked him away from her brother. He took in a ragged breath and Akako held him tightly wondering why the gods could take away someone so young. He died in Akako's arms and she made a silent vow to Akemi that she would avenge his death. The next day she buried her brother next to her parents. That day was known throughout history as the day the red path was made. That was the day Akako gained the sword with the spade ruby at the place where the hilt and blade met, the sword that killed her brother.
Akemi Harano
1997-2010
A Son, a Brother taken
before his time
May his death bring him to
a better place away from war
My Angel
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Akako stopped startling the girl, the red path was made of the blood of the villagers. Akako closed her hand over the rose cutting her hand, the blood dripped down and then touched the girl. Akako closed her eyes and unsheathed her sword, she was filled with a burning hate she always got when she lifted the sword. She brought it down and was met with the resistance of flesh and bone, she opened her eyes and saw the girl with a manic smile on her face a slash running from her neck to her opposite side. The blood pooled around her and then led her to another villager, Akako killed the villager and then everyone the blood touched from then on. Akako had not slept since coming into this dream and now had dark circles under her eyes and a manic look in her red brown eyes. She had just struck down a woman who held a little boy in her arms she was about to kill the boy but the blood did not touch him so she walked away. The blood nearly touched a teenager with bright blue hair and blue eyes when it swerved and led her to a different villager. Akako followed the blood into the woods she had seen when first arriving in the dream and watched as swirling and writhing black masses formed a door.
Akako did not hesitate to walk through but did not notice the blood following her. When Akako opened the door she found herself in a house specifically a living room. A little girl was coloring in a coloring book she had short brown hair and red brown eyes. Akako walked over to the girl noticing she was in her old clothes; leather pants, black combat boots, red shirt, and a black jacket. Akako sheathed her sword and tapped the girl on the shoulder, said girl turned to face Akako. The girl smiled and finished her drawing, she had colored a forest much like the one Akako had just come from.
"Hello, your pretty," the girl smiled at Akako," you should meet my daddy, he likes pretty ladies like you."
Akako smiled and followed the girl through a door which led to the kitchen, in it there was a man with light brown hair, brown eyes, and a scar on his cheek. Akako stopped breathing and just looked at him, the girl said something to the man and he looked up. When he saw her his eyes widened and he shook his head in bewilderment.
"Kanta?" Akako asked hesitantly.
"Akako, I... I thought... but... your in a coma." Kanta struggled with his words," before you ask Ai is yours. You were pregnant when you were shot, she was born six months later. But your still in the hospital, still in a coma."
A woman walked through the door then, she had blond hair and big expressive blue eyes," Mommy!" Ai ran to the door and hugged the woman. Akako was speechless, Kanta had married another woman. Kanta had broken their had broken their had broken their had broken their promise. Akako could feel herself grab teh hilt of her sword which Kanta had just realised was on her hip. Akako was filled with rage and that was when she noticed teh blood had touched the blonde woman. Akako smiled evilly and drove her blade through the woman killing her instantly, severing her spine. The blood did not touch the girl, Ai, Akako's child. The blood pooled around the blond woman and then slithered toward Kanta it touched his boots and Akako turned toward him. He pushed Ai away from him and started to run when he felt the cold of Akako steel at his back.
He turned slowly and found Akako with tears in her tired bloodshot eyes," You broke our promise" she whispered and then drove her sword through his heart as the soldier had done to her brother so long ago.
She watched as he hit the floor, then Akako grabbed her daughter and let her fall asleep next to her dead father. He breathed shallowly and it was filled with red liquid that stained his daughter's hair and Akako's face. Akako fell asleep in the arms of her best friend holding her daughter between them. When Akako woke up it had only been a few hours and Ai was still asleep, Kanta had finally stopped breathing and Akako closed his eyes with her left hand noticing that she was still wearing the engagement ring he had given her. She clutched the ring to her chest and let a single tear escape before she was swallowed by the darkness that had created the door. She was back in the 'Wonderland' Eiji had created just for her. The blood still stained the ground and Akako noticed all of the roses surrounding her, the petals had all fallen off and were scattered at her feet like a blanket. All that was left of the beautiful plants were the thorny stems, all blackened by her foul deeds. Akako tried to escape the thorns but they came to life clutching her body in its hurtful grip. She tried to scream for help but the thorns created hands and clamped themselves over her mouth and body. They dragged her into the darkness, blood dripping from her torn skin. In the small sliver of light she had been standing in all you could see was a bloody sword and a hand stained red with the spade on her hand now turned black with swirling red designs.
When Akako woke with her skin still stinging and bleeding she found herself in an iron cage her sword had been dropped in the forest and was a mere twelve feet away. Akako could not reach it but nor did she want it. She had killed her best friend and had left her only daughter alone to care for herself. Akako cried until she felt a hand on her head, she looked up to find Eiji consoling her. He hugged her through the bars and whispered sweet nothings to her. When she had calmed down she noticed something different about Eiji, he was carrying a doll with brown hair, wearing a red dress with a white apron like corset that had frill at the chest. The doll was carrying a silver sword with a spade ruby where the hilt met the blade. Akako screamed and moved to the other side of the cage. Eiji laughed and threw the doll in the cage along with her sword.
"You know you were a fun toy, but you did kill so many of these people, you know not all of them were created by me. I had to take people from all over the world to make it seem more realistic. The people that you didn't kill were all from a different world, some were from yours." Eiji laughed cruelly at her horrified expression.
Eiji started to walk away when Akako grabbed the end of his overly large white shirt,"please tell me, was Kanta part of this dream! The blood pointed to him, so he was part of the dream right?"
Eiji stared at her and she noticed that his eyes were just black holes, and the darkness writhed in his eye-sockets swirling with blood red designs. He started to walk away when he stopped," Kanta was not a dream."
Akako screamed and cried for days clutching the brown haired doll that was supposed to be her. Akako replayed the 'dream' over and over again in her head going over every little detail trying to see if Eiji was lying. Finally she deduced that he was telling the truth, she grabbed her sword and pointed it to her heart. She said a silent prayer to the gods that she would be spared and be able to see her loved ones one last time. Akako plunged the sword through her heart and saw that her blood created a card, the card simply stated," you have finished the red path". Akako cried in her last moments but when she followed the light she smelled wood, and musk, Kanta's cologne. Then she saw green eyes, she was with her brother again, and Kanta. As Akako turned around to take it all in she saw her daughter she was older, sixteen years old, but she ran to her mother and hugged her tight. Akako was finally with her family and as they hugged her she realised that the gods had forgiven her for what she had done in her dream. A man she had never seen before walked up to her and showed her what Eiji was behind the mask he had created for himself. Akako screamed and writhed on the ground at what she had seen, those soulless black eyes haunted her until her world ended in war, and even the gods died.
The first ALICE was a gallant red one
Wielding a sword in a hand in the wonderland
Slicing down everything in her way
She was followed by a bloody red path.
This new ALICE deep in the woods
Was trapped as a horrid sinner
If it weren't for the red path that she made
No one would think that she even existed.