Disclaimer: I don't own Soul eater (not the person) I only own the messed up different version story about Alice and Rapunzel.
Maka, the current leader who is managing this play is having trouble. Not just one trouble but many, many trouble with the cast. For starters, Soul is refusing to wear the blue and white dress and the blonde wig made for him. He says "Why must a cool person like me have to wear a dress and a wig?"
Black Star on the other hand is perfectly happy with his role. When he first saw the Queen of Heart's costume, he refused to wear it until Maka told him how good he would look as a girl. You might wonder how that is a problem if he is fine with wearing the costume. Well it wouldn't have been a problem only if he stopped wearing it to class, on his missions, when he sleeps and even in the bathroom.
The Cheshire cat's costume was supposed to be purple and white stripes until Kid wanted it to be black and white strips. Arranging that isn't really a problem nor did it even matter in fact, however the only problem was that Kid was the one painting it. He has being painting it for the last twenty-four hours and finished painting only one black stripe.
The rest of them except Patty who seems to enjoy what is happening are worried about the play. Finally Maka decided to take action. She threatened Soul into wearing the costume, decided to make another Queen of Heart costume and decided to wait for Kid until he finishes but managed to get him to practice without the costume.
PRACTICE #1 (without costumes but Black Star wore his anyways):
Scene 1:
Tsubaki, who was Rapunzel came to stage. "Mother, I have finished making a dress for you." She took out a beautiful red dress and showed it to Black Star, who is The Queen of Heart.
"Oohhh this is pretty, Maka I want to wear that" Black Star pointed at the red dress while looking at Maka.
"Black Star! Just say you're line!" Maka roared from backstage.
"Fine, fine, let's see" he looked at his script. "Put it somewhere and leave" he read from his script. Maka wanted to tell him that it's been one week and how can he still not remember his lines? However stopped thinking he might memorize it before the play.
"Mother…" Tsubaki said sadly and left the stage.
"How can my stepdaughter be more beautiful than me? I will not accept this" Black Star read without any emotion. "Cards" he was suppose to yell "Come here" once again reading from his script without any emotion.
A bunch of Card puppet appeared from backstage, they were going to say "Yes your highness?" until Black Star accidently tripped and broke them all.
Scene one, failed. So Maka told them to start scene two.
SCENE #2:
The ones who are in scene #2 are Soul and Kid. Soul, who got threatened and Kid who is still painting his costume even though a week passed were performing fairly well. That is if you look away from Soul's bad acting and Kid's constant notice of things which weren't symmetrical. Other than that, they did very well.
They then performed the rest of the scenes successfully (not really, it was a disaster). And after five week (yes it took that long for Soul to accept his fate, for Black Star to memorize his lines but Kid still didn't finish painting his costume so they just gave him cat ears and a tail.) they were ready to perform and practiced one more time.
LAST PRACTICE:
"In a place called Wonderland, which is ruled by The Queen of Hearts, among many people lived a girl called Rapunzel. She is kind, beautiful and very skilled at story telling. She longed for her Step Mother's love but never once been loved." Maka spoke from backstage.
"Mother, I have finished making a dress for you." She took out the red dress.
Black Star turned away from Tsubaki "Put it somewhere" he waved irritated at Tsubaki. He was surprisingly very into his role. As Tsubaki places the dress on his bed he turned and said "Now leave" he said scornfully.
Deep inside Tsubaki, she was proud of Black Star who was acting very well. "Mother…" she left the stage with fake tears in her eyes.
"The Queen of Heart was very jealous of Rapunzel's beauty and one day ordered her card soldiers to lock her up in a high tower so she may never be seen again." Maka was relieved to see Black Star's acting.
"Card Soldiers!" He bellowed as robotic card soldiers (they were afraid the puppets might be broken again.) appeared from back stage.
"Yes your highness" Maka was the one in charge of voicing them.
Black Star making an annoyed face sat on his throne and said "Put Rapunzel on the highest tower we have and have the jabberwocky and Mad hatter guard her." He finished his sentence then leaned back in his throne.
"The card soldiers did as they were told and locked Rapunzel in the highest tower guarded by the jabberwocky and Mad Hatter." Maka gave Soul and Kid a signal telling them it was their turn soon. The lights were turned off so that no one will notice Soul taking his position and the background changing.
"Alice is a girl who longed to go to wonderland." The lights on stage came on. "She wanted to escape her everyday boring life"
"Ahh!" Soul leaned back on the tree behind him. "I am sooo bored! I wish I can go to wonderland again and play." He sighed as he covered his eyes with his hand. Soul wore his dress and the wig and when he didn't think about it, he didn't feel much of a difference. He convinced himself that he was wearing his regular cloths.
"Alice! Alice!" Kid called from behind the tree. He wore his Cheshire cat costume which consists of cat ears and a tail. He didn't want to walk on four legs so he walked on normally and no one argued.
Alic-I mean Soul turned to face Kid. "Cheshire cat? What brings you here?"
It was Maka's turn "Cheshire cat explained about what happened to Rapunzel and asked for help. Alice, who had nothing to do, agreed right away because she wanted to go to Wonderland again and also because Rapunzel is her friend."
"I'll do it!" Soul stood up excitedly. Kid led the way while soul followed him.
Kid pointed at a black piece of cloth which used to represent the hole Alice used to go to wonderland after following the white Rabbit. "Let's go Alice."
The stage became Black again and the Background changed to a picture of wonderland.
"Alice and Cheshire cat walked for a long time before reaching Rapunzel's tower." Maka paused then started again. "Upon reaching the tower, Alice and Cheshire cat noticed the jabberwocky."
"What's that?" Soul asked looking at Kid as he pointed to the Jabberwocky.
"It's the Jabberwocky." Kid said looking at Soul. Kid was very ashamed of himself when he failed his mission so he decided to work extra hard which paid off. "It is guarding Rapunzel's tower."
"Looks like we have no choice but to defeat it." Soul and Kid charged at the Jabberwocky.
The jabberwocky was actually Liz. She wanted the least lines so she picked this role. When she noticed Soul and Kid she gave a growl and then began to roar softly as Kid and Soul reached closer to her.
"What's it doing?" Soul asked Kid.
"It is saying to help him" Kid did the wide grin that Cheshire cat does. "It wants to escape from the Mad Hatter." Kid's mouth was hurting from grinning so widely but for the sake of his pride, he kept on ginning.
"Wow poor Jabberwocky. Mad Hatter drove me insane too." He spoke to Kid then turned to Liz "You're free to go wherever you want." He said smiling at Liz and Liz walked back to backstage feeling happy her part was over.
"Alice and Cheshire cat successfully defeated the Jabberwocky and proceed on to the tower. What they didn't know was that the Queen of Hear was watching their every move." Maka glanced at Black Star to see if he noticed his turn is coming up and Black Star looked eager.
The lights were once again turned off as the background showed a picture of the Castle where the Queen of Heart lived. "Damn Alice!" he cursed "Once again she ruins my day!" Black star bit into a napkin and started pulling it until it ripped. "But surely she won't be able to pass the Mad Hatter." He laughed and left the stage as the lights were turned off.
Maka nodded at Soul and Kid then started "What the Queen of Heart didn't know that the Mad Hatter fell asleep due to having nothing to do so Alice and Cheshire cat finally reached Rapunzel's tower without any difficulty."
"That was pretty easy huh?" Soul said to Kid as they passed Patty who was sleeping for real. They stood in front of the other tower inside the tower which held Tsubaki. "Rapunzel!" Soul called.
Tsubaki peered from the small hole of the tower. "Alice!" She called. "Have you come to save me?"
"That's right! Now just jump and I will catch you."
"Not so fast!" Black Star appeared in mid air after a small and harmless smoke bomb was blasted. Well Black Star wasn't really in mid air, there was something holding him. "I won't let you have it your way Alice!" He laughed like Santa Claus except it was an evil version.
"Mother!" Tsubaki yelled.
Kid turned to Soul and they both nodded. They came closer and pretended that they whispered to each other. "Queen of heart! I am against violence. How about I give you a riddle and if you can solve it then we will leave but if you can't then you will give Rapunzel to us and your whole Kingdom to me," Soul said proudly.
"Hmph, a cat and a little girl is no challenge for me. Bring it on!" And once again Black Star laughed the evil version of Santa Claus' laugh.
"What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs at night?" Soul asked.
"The Queen of Heart thought and thought but she wasn't very smart, her first answer was a kangaroo, her second answer was the Jabberwocky and her third answer was a frying pan." Maka smiled happily knowing the play will be successful tomorrow. "The correct answer is a Human."
"What? How can a human have such power to do that?" Black Star grabbed his head and shoke it furiously. "It's not possible, it's not possible." He jumped down on stage and asked Soul "Tell me Alice, how is that possible?" She begged.
"We'll leave it up to you oh and by the way your kingdom belongs to me now." Soul laughed.
"Alice has successfully conquered Wonderland and managed to save Rapunzel. From that day on Alice, Cheshire cat, Rapunzel, the jabberwocky lived a fun life while every day the Mad Hatter had tea parties. As for the queen of hearts she still is trying to find out how a human can have such power. They all lived happily ever after." Maka ended.
The practice was successful and everyone is happy as they cheered. Even Soul cheered forgetting that he was still wearing the dress until Black Star told him "You look pretty good" He ran to change his cloths.
Maka felt proud and said to everyone "Now nothing can go wrong" now as we all know, whenever someone says that something will always go wrong.
This chapter wasn't funny at all…well I did rush a bit…Hopefully Chapter four might be interesting. Sorry if the Chapter was boring and yes I know, the story was messed up and didn't make much sense but I have only one excuse- I was hungry and wasn't thinking straight.