Here's the next part! I think I have 3 chapters to go (I'm adding a little bit between the third and fourth Alice) and then the ending (which will be based on the story of the dark woods circus)
After this story I'm gonna finish off A Chance To Change It All I promise!
Anyway, here's Alice 3! Shiki is green because she was the girl who saw Eri's body as perfect so I put her in Eri's body. That, and her spirit colour was green.
The third ALICE had been bought to the place from a horrible place. She had begged to the stars to pull her out of the place she was in and out of the body she hated so much. The green ALICE had gotten her wish, as her soul was thrust into the body of a dead friend of hers from a while ago. The friend she had become made the green ALICE, Shiki, very happy.
Her new body was beautiful. Her long red hair was silky and shone while her body was just the right shape, exactly like she remembered her friend having when she used to stare at her. She wasn't wearing her friend's clothes when she woke up in the wonderland. She wore a long green dress which she knew her friend had designed as soon as she had gotten away from her abusive parents long enough to get her own home and a job designing clothes for a small manufacturer.
Shiki remembered that her friend had a good life. That is, her friend had a good life until she was ran over in a hit and run accident at age 17. Shiki had been upset for her friend, but she couldn't stay sad for long in her situation.
The new green ALICE used to live on the streets before she woke up in the dream and her instincts had been finely tuned so that any movement around her was detected. From her space outside of an old castle, the girl's hair stood on end as she turned around to see the child that had been to the two other ALICE's.
"You can be my new ALICE," the child announced with a proud smile. Shiki looked at the child with blank curiosity. The child, unbeknownst to Shiki, looked different now than when it had faced the other two ALICEs. The loss and death that the dream had suffered was making it into a darker place, and the child who was the dream in Human form was showing this.
Its clothes had grown longer so it was in more of a cloak than anything else. Its black wings had grown more skeletal and thinner and they extended out further looking like twisted lightning bolts. Its pink hair had grown longer so it looked like the mop of pink was eating the child's head instead of nestling safely above it.
"My other ALICE's failed me, but I'm sure you will do fine," the child said with a dismissive wave as he started to walk away from his newest ALICE without her even giving a word on the situation. Shiki was about to say something but when she opened her mouth, pain shot through the underneath o the girls eye and she squeaked at the pain as the child just giggled.
On the left side of her right eye, in the place where tears would normally make their downwards path, a small green clover had appeared. The sting drew tears to the ALICE's eyes causing her to hold onto her eye while watching the kid with the other
"Hey! What did you do to my eye?" Shiki called after the child. She heard it let out another giggle.
"Be a good ALICE," it said as it walked away into the shadows.
^-Time passing-^
A year flew by and the ALICE didn't go mad, this made the dream very happy because he had someone he could go and visit and talk to. Soon after she had been given her ALICE mark, the girl had been taken into the castle she had woken up by and asked to become the queen of this land, she accepted immediately and so began the reign of 'Queen ALICE'
Songs were sung throughout the kingdom about the queen, children skipped and played clapping games to their songs while adults in choirs and the town's new singer would sing a song about their queen.
'The third Alice was an innocent girl of the Club.
An enchanting, graceful figure in the world of Wonderland.
She charmed the people of the land to every beck and call.
A peculiar country answering to each command.
So she rose to the throne to be the country's queen." The children didn't understand the lyrics, but the adults knew about the terrible deeds of the other ALICE's and sang in remembrance of all. The queen wasn't happy as she didn't like the song at all, although it showed her in an unbiased light, she wanted people to love her and for all their songs to reflect on wanting to be their queen or be near to their queen. This was not the kind of song she wanted to hear sung about her.
It had been a long time since the dream's last visit and Shiki had decided that she didn't want to talk to the dream anymore. It had been saying strange things to her about how he loved the sight of blood or how he had tried luring babies into him but they died before he could make them into ALICE's. She wondered why anyone would ever want to be an ALICE in the first place. The red haired girl still didn't know what the term meant but she had gathered from the stories of the other ALICEs that it wasn't something she would want to be.
Another thing she hated about the dream was his threats. He would threaten her with her death for a while, so long had she been threatened by it now that she was always on the watch for death, she would never sleep unless guarded due to the dreams she had been having filled with blood and guns and mad men, all of the food she ate was checked for poison so she didn't die from that and anyone who was sick was removed from the castle. Those unlucky enough to be found sick were sometimes executed too; just to be sure the queen could not get the germs.
The ALICE of clubs had become overly paranoid. She didn't let anyone touch her anymore but she still made short appearances so that everyone could remember how beautiful she was.
She had charmed the entire town with her beauty, and she intended to keep it that way.
"Hello!" a voice called happily as the dream bounced its way up to the queens throne. Since the first time the queen had seen the child, it had changed. The time without death had allowed it to heal itself so that it wasn't as dark. Although the pink hair had turned to a dark shade of red now, the hair had been cut so it didn't cover the red eyes and didn't fall past the child's shoulders.
"What do you want?" the suddenly cold ALICE asked the child. She turned her nose up as if he had trodden blood into her throne room.
"I'm here for our talk, I enjoy talking to ALICE!" the dream said as he took a step closer to Shiki and touched her arm. The girl recoiled as if she had been burned.
"Don't touch me!" she shouted in disgust causing the smile the dream had been wearing to drop into an unhappy frown.
"It seems like ALICE has gotten too big for her crown," the child announced before he walked over to her and touched her throat. "I will have to teach ALICE a lesson," it announced as she smirk made its way back onto his face.
"What are you do-" Shiki's voice stopped but her lips kept moving. She stopped talking when she realised that no sound was coming out of her mouth. The tried to shout and scream and soon tears fell down her face when she realised she had lost the ability to speak.
'Give me my voice back,' the girl mimed sadly to the child. The dream just smiled and shook its head before it began to sing.
"Sanbanme ARISU wa osanai ko.
Kirei na sugata de, fushigi no kuni.
Ironna hito o madowasete.
Okashi na kuni o tsukuriageta.
Sonna ARISU wa, kuni no joou.
Ibitsu na yume ni torisukarete.
Kuchiyuku karada ni obiengara,
Kuni no chouten ni kunrin suru." The child sang cheekily as he skipped around the room he was in alone with the Queen. The odd green queen stood in the middle of the room with tears pouring down her face and over her ALICE mark and finally ending at her hand which were clutching at her neck in hopes that her voice would come back.
"It won't come back, enjoy your reign 'queen Alice' the child giggled as it evaporated into thin air leaving the crying queen all alone
For years after that, the queen sat on her throne silently. She was perfectly still like a statue and didn't ever speak or look away from the spot on the wall she stared at.
It took the servants a few months to realise she wasn't eating food, or sleeping or even doing anything but sitting and by the time they smelt the death that slithered around the room they knew that their queen had been rotting for a long time from the inside out. However, even with her body dead, her pretty face never rotted and over time she stayed on the throne until she developed spiders living In her hair and cobwebs as a silky veil over her whole body.
As soon as the villagers heard, a new ending was added to their song about the queen.
'The third Alice was an innocent girl of the Club.
An enchanting, graceful figure in the world of Wonderland.
She charmed the people of the land to every beck and call.
A peculiar country answering to each command.
So she rose to the throne to be the country's queen.
Consumed by a paranoia of her own impending death.
Soon the queen succumbed to a dark, nightmarish dream.
Disguised in kindness, loathing fate, she secured her regime.'
This ALICE was never forgotten in the wonderland and never replaced, the dead ALICE sat on the throne forevermore, even after her skin and flesh was long gone.
All done! Now there are only two characters left to be the yellow ALICE's. and I'm gonna make them twins just because they aren't.