Hello, this is Bee, and you know me more as Elise the Writing Desk. This is a project between me and my friend BrokenBlackCat.
Um, hi, this is Cat and you may know me as BrokenBlackCat. I hope you all like this project of ours!
Alice in the Castle of Otaku
January 13th, 2013
by BlackN'Bee, Heart no Kuni no Alice by QuinRose
"Hello, new maid!" Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum greeted their new, young worker who had been frozen on the door.
The twins proceeded to aim a hand-bazooka on the girl's direction.
"These are our new babies! Exactly like in the Iron Man 2 Movie!" Dee snickered.
"Your first job for us...start running!" Dum chuckled and started the weapon, and it began to emit ominous light, preparing to shoot. "Let's see how accurate these babies are!"
Alice Liddell, 18 years old, she had watched Iron Man 2 of course, and she couldn't remember on which part did Tony Stark missed his foe. Of course she ran!
"This is how I die!" Alice grimaced as a 1000 Volt worth of shot was released by the twins.
And this, was her story of serving a crazy, reclusive, lazy family...
~.X.~
This story began in a completely normal day, you wouldn't expect any crazy event to occur at all. Alice heard the car of her Driving Tutor honked in front of her lonely house. She took her home-made lunch box, locked the door, walked past her beautiful front yard, and approached the car.
"Good morning, Mr. Monrey...I mean, Julius!" Alice greeted her tutor who just nodded as the reply, and then gestured for her to seat on the driver's seat.
"This will be your last session." Julius Monrey announced as the girl started the engine.
"Oh, I didn't really count how many sessions we've had..." Alice giggled and slowly stepped on the gas. "By the way, that tulip bulb you gave me last month has bloomed!"
Julius glanced at her, he was unreadable, but he showed a small smile for appreciation. "I know you'd did it. You seem pretty good in gardening. Not only that, you take care of your house neatly."
"Thank you." Alice responded, smiling. "I've never told you this, but I have no choice but to learn how to do house-work since I'm very young. My parents lived overseas, my sisters lived in their university's dormitory, while I have to stay here and complete my college this year...So, I've gotta do everything by myself."
"Don't you feel...lonely?"
Alice glanced at Julius for a while, surprised that he asked something so...sentimental.
"Of course, sometimes, though..." she laughed a little. "But I've got friends at my college. My family never call me, that's just the thing that makes me lonely." She turned the wheel around and stopped before the red light. "So, where to go?"
Julius didn't answer right away, he watched as the vehicles passed the highway before their eyes.
"Today, you listen to my direction. I'm going to take you somewhere...special. Think of is as our last session's surprise." He said, as Alice prepared to take off the hand-brake.
"Really? Cool...Alright, lead the way, Navigator."
~.X.~
3 Months before...
"Marimar—"
"—THE OLD HAG IS RUNNING!"
"—Con mis abuelos creca yo—"
"—SHE'S NAKED! SOMEONE FETCH A CAMERA!"
"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
King Henry groaned and paused his telenovela video, then listened to the ruckus and noises coming around from the entire Castle. Some crashes, shrieks, bullets shot, clashing swords—the Castle was at 'war'.
Their old maid had gotten enough of working there, and she's going away for good. And naked.
"Julius!" King Henry yelled, and then coughed uncontrollably He was still coughing as his trustworthy steward entered his luxurious room.
"Yes, my Lord, how may I help you?"
"We need a new candidate, now that Miss Martha had lost her sanity, that she'd even run around without her maid suit to get out of here." King Henry said, his voice was hoarse from coughing, while Julius poured water into a glass on the nightstand, then offered it to his master.
"I've been searching in case this happens. Here are the information on some candidates." Julius handed a folder in a very respectable gesture.
King Henry read through the profiles lazily.
"I suggest we choose Miss Marie. She's an old widow and lives alone—"
"No, wait..." King Henry held a hand in front of Julius' face, as he scowled to a certain profile. Slowly, a smile grew on his old feature. "I choose her." He nodded to the profile he's currently reading.
Julius blinked, taken aback. Usually he did everything on managing this Castle, and he had been choosing the maid for as long as he could remember...it was surprising that His Majesty suddenly decided about this.
"But, excuse me, My Lord...she's still young."
"No, Julius, I want this young lady to work here." King Henry smiled at Julius and closed the folder, then handed it to the steward. "Now get out of the Castle and get her. You have three months. Before that, you have to ground Ace, Dee, Dum and Nightmare in the Underground Prison—we don't want them to destroy the Castle, now do we?"
"Y-Yes...Your Majesty."
~.X.~
Alice frowned nervously, glancing around the empty road, as she kept on driving. There were no one else in that area but their car...Plus, she wasn't familiar with the area...
"Julius, where are we? We're not lost...right?"
"Of course not. Keep on driving forth."
"Okay, but...where are you taking us?"
"..It's nearby. Just...just keep on driving, Alice."
Alice whimpered a little, but continued on driving past the foggy area. She could barely see anything past some yards in front of her; she's worried if something suddenly jumped to their car.
"Alright, we're here." Julius finally said, and Alice slowly parked in front of an enormous castle, surrounded by thick fogs.
"Wow...?" Alice could hear herself being unsure. Yes, it was a castle. An enormous castle, with tall brick walls...But...
Everything was old, not maintained, dusty, and the trees were dead, the gates were rusty...it looked like a Haunted Castle or something.
Suddenly, Julius unfastened his seat-belt and opened his own door, jumping off the car. "Wait here." He told her, and disappeared into the thick fog.
"J-Julius...?" Alice called, but he seemed to be completely disappeared. She looked around again. She had no idea where to go—everything was covered by the fogs. She couldn't see the path where she came from.
CLICK
"H-Huh!?"
Suddenly, Alice felt the car shook, and then, she finally noticed—albeit a bit late, the surface was gone—the car fell!
"Whoa—WHAT THE HECK!?" she shrieked as the car fell into a dark, wide hole.
"KYAAAAHH...!"
~.X.~
"She's young." Peter commented curtly from his Videocam in his room.
"She's not even older than me." Vivaldi nodded, she was standing nearby the LCD whereas Peter's face was also nodding.
"I hope she can cook...I'm too lazy to cook." Boris said, while stuffing his mouth with fish nuggets.
"I'm lucky! She's young and healthy—a great subject to test my chemical!" Nightmare beamed happily, and then coughed uncontrolably.
"Indeed, she's young and healthy. Just the perfect one to sweep my lab and take out my experiment trashes, heheh..." Gowland snickered amusedly.
"You people are treating her inhumanly. I can only hope that Kami-sama forgives you..." Gray sighed, shaking his head solemnly.
"She's young...As the God of Fashion, I decide that she'll be a perfect subject for my newest designs..." Blood smirked.
"Who gives a fuck!" Black rolled his eyes lazily. "As long she'd cook and clean my room, that's all we need!"
"Well, we have to keep her alive, though. Don't want her to run away naked like Miss Martha..." White chuckled.
"Hey, are you saying that in purpose!?" Dum pouted.
"Yeah, you're accusing us, aren't you!?" Dee twitched angrily.
"She...she can be...Ginny Weasley." Elliot blushed, his eyes gleaming.
"I...can sense...bad luck...coming to her...from every direction..." Pierce whispered gloomily.
"So, what's her name? Zelda, right?" Ace snickered, although he's still playing 3DS.
"Her name is Alice." Julius sighed, nodding to the girl whom he had dressed into the Special Maid Outfit, and was sleeping on the couch. "So, what do you think? Take her or not?"
"She's accepted!" everyone chorused and nodded firmly. "Okay, back to our normal lives!" they chorused again before straying away to their own habitats, and the LCD was turned off as Peter was done with it. The main living room was suddenly empty after they were gone.
Ace put down his 3DS and approached the girl to observe her. Julius watched him as the brunette was tilting the new maid's head, smiling.
"Alice, huh..." Ace chuckled and then started to walk away, laughing cheerfully.
"You're not even in the right castle!"
So? Interested?
