New Game
A/N: AHHH! SOOOO SORRY this is late, well here it is enjoy!
Chapter 4: The lost chronicles
Peter White angrily grits his teeth as he skips through Heart caste with a mountain of paper work in his arms, most of it was his to do but a small section belonged to the knave of Hearts who was nowhere to be found in the castle.
"Where is that blasted Knight?" the rabbit eared man asks with his ears twitching in anger as he passed another hall with no sign of the knight. "He has most likely gone and got himself lost again, he would loss his head if it were not attached!" he yells balancing the paper work in one hand while the other he uses to take out his pocket watch to view the time.
With a loud sigh the prime minister returns the watch to his pocket and turns round on his heels, "I best get my paper work done at least, that twit can be the one to get the beat from our queen the unruly beast" Peter comments marching to his quarters.
Passing a window and seeing the Morning sky change to sunset, the white rabbit stops and looks out at the sky with his ears slightly dropping. "Oh Katherine how I wish you would come here quickly for a visit, I really meant it when I said I wanted to know you better" he sighs looking at the orange of the sky reminding his on the new outsider's flaming hair. "Though deep down…" the white haired male starts placing a hand over his chest, "I have this feeling deep down in my chest that there is something or someone that has been forgotten, someone that shouldn't have been forgotten" he states to himself with a strong longing in his red eyes.
With a deep sigh Peter cranks his head to the side as a faceless maid timidly steps forward, "ah…sorry minister White but the Queen has requested your presence in the court yard" she says gripping her hands and shaking violently. Peter fights the urge to pull a gun out to shot the maid but he pushes the feeling aside and sighs, "alright I'll be there in a minute I just need to put these papers in my quarters" he informs the maid and skips off down the hall.
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{Somewhere in a forest}
Katherine curiously looks around at the forest she and the knight walk through. The pair had been walking for a an hour or two and no castle had come into view, nothing had come into view just forest! The photography student was now become sceptical that the knight even knew where he was going, one being that Ace's eyes had been closed through the whole journey, along with a goofy grin plastered on his face since they set of and then he would hum to himself from time to time.
Sighing to break the silence the red head looks up at the brunette with a serious look, "Ace do you even know where we are going?" she asks trying to at least remain polite in her tone of voice.
"Of course I do Kathie, I work at the castle so I go back and forth from the tower to the castle all the time!" the knight replies grinning widely at the red head who flinched in irritation at him using the shortened version of her name.
"O-Okay if you say so" Katherine replies still disbelieving that the knight had any sense of direction. Really I don't think he knows where he is going, the route on the picture I took looks much shorter than this route.
Continuing to follow the knight Katherine looks down at the camera in hands not even having a clue as to where she was, mainly because she was new to this land and also because she did not recognise it on the picture.
"Hey Katherine…" Ace starts getting the red haired photography student's attention, "yeah" she answers turning off the camera and hanging it over her neck by the strap. "Tell me about yourself, I don't really know much about you except you are an outsider and have a camera with you that's it" the brunette asks starting to walk backwards with his arms crossed behind his head.
Kathie raises her brow and purses her lips slightly, "well I'm 21 and I am a photography student at UAL, that's the University of Arts London, London is a place in my world it's a very big place" she starts explaining linking her fingers behind her back.
"What about family, what are your family like?" Ace asks with an excited look on his face.
Katherine frowns lowering her gaze to the ground, "well…I never really knew my parents" the red head starts. "They died when I was young, my aunt and uncle raised me and my brother" the red haired photography student stops in her tracks with her hands shaking as they hold onto the camera.
With a big sigh Katherine quickly resumes walking and begins to act as normal. "So Ace what about you? I know you're a knight and all but tell me about yourself?" she asks smiling at the tall brunette.
"Err well I was given the role as knight when I was young, about my past, family and such I don't really remember much about hahah guess they were pretty boring if I don't remember them haha" the knight laughs joyfully holding his stomach, but the red head frowns at him.
"So you don't have any family then, that's kind of sad" she says looking up at Ace with a sorrow gaze.
The knight smiles widely and shakes his head, "Nah I have Julius he's a good friend of mine and he's special to me too!" Katherine smiles at this, "at least you have someone special" she replies going through her photos on her camera.
"Yep Julius is special, so special that if anyone tried to hurt him I might have to kill them!" Ace yells grinning widely.
Katherine gulps and makes a mental note, Note to self, be very very nice to Julius to stay on Ace's good side.
"Kathie~" The knight sings pulling the red head from her thoughts, "Ah yes" she replies with a twitching brow. "We're Lost!" The brunette proudly announces with his hands on his hips and standing in the middle of a clearing.
Katherine's brow twitches and so does her fist that she slowly raises. She glares fiercely at the Knight and grits her teeth, "w-what do you mean lost? I thought since you were the knight of hearts you would know how to get to the castle!" she growls grabbing Ace by his collar and dragging him down to her level.
The brunette keeps a happy go lucky grin on his face not caring at the mad ginger holding with a fist aimed at his face, "I do know how that get there I just get lost all the time that's all" the knight replies, and then Katherine remembers what Julius had said and releases Ace stumbling back to lean on a tree.
"Julius was warning me…warning me about you – you Psycho-lost-mantic freak!" she screams banging the tree with her fist and starts to sob, "I don't want to die out here lost in the woods with a man with no direction!" She screams tearing up and sliding down the tree.
"Hey that's mean!" Ace whines with his hands on his hips and leaning forward, he still had a grin on his face though. "You're not going to die in this forest! Now come on Kathie I think there might be a round up this way I hear People!" At the mention of people Katherine shoots up with her eyes sparkle and her hands clamped together in prey form.
"P-People" she was hopeful she was going to live so she follows Ace once more through the forest.
*Grumble*
The photography student's face goes almost as red as her hair when her stomach grumbles loudly for food, "ahh man I hungry" she whimpers patting her belly and pouts. Ace looks down at her then takes his sword, "AH! What are you doing?!" she shrieks cowering away from the brunette.
The knight hushes her and looks through the trees, "I'm looking for an animal for you so I can kill it, cook it and we can eat it!" he announces grinning widely with his teeth on display as he spots a cute bunny.
Katherine spots the bunny and quickly shoos it away, "huh I though you said you were hungry?" the knight asks confused putting his sword away.
"I am! But having the death of that cute bunny on my head, no thanks" she explains with her hands on her hips, "don't get me wrong if I went to restaurant and ordered rabbit I would eat it, but I wouldn't be able to eat one that I saw killed in front of me it just doesn't feel right to me" she adds crossing her arms and closing her eyes.
"I don't understand, you would eat it if you didn't see it's death but if you were present during the creatures killing you would refuse to eat it, isn't that just a waste of a meal?" the knight asks running his fingers through his hair as he loses his grin.
Katherine sighs, "yes I guess, but I'll just feel guilty that I was there and didn't stop the death of an animal, I know it sounds silly but I feel better eating meat not knowing it's death sorry" she explains and begins walking off on her own in a random direction.
Still confused on the outsider's morals Ace stays in his space and keeps a strong and narrow stare at Katherine, her morals on life and death regarding an animal was too strange for Ace, though he still found himself slightly interested in the girl maybe because she was an outsider? Because of her strange morals? He didn't know the exact answer.
With a large sigh the knight ruffles the back of his head, his large usually goofy grin returns to his face and he charges after Katherine. He hooks his arm round her neck making her yelp and gag at the same time.
"AHH WHAT THE FUCK!" the red head screams and elbows the brunette in the face knocking him back, turning round Kathie sees Ace hunches over holding his nose and mouth. "Oh god Ace I'm sorry you startled me….oh god is your nose bleeding…broken?" she asks kneeling down and hovering her hand over the knight's back worried.
To photography student's surprise the knave of hearts bursts out laugh and stands up right, there was a bit of blood flowing from his nose and some from his mouth but he didn't seemed bothered by it at all. "Kathie ahah that was fun I've never really had someone get me in the face like that before!" he cheers hooking his arm round the red head's neck once again.
Katherine laughs awkwardly with the knight as he laughs hysterically, "s-so you're okay, you're not mad at me?" the red head asks nervously ducking he head down.
Ace shakes his head and wipes a tear away and flinches as he touches his broken nose. "No I'm not mad Kathie! You're fun!" he laughs and hugs Katherine's neck tightly gagging her, she wrestles to get free from the strong knight by elbowing him in the chest. "Off" Ace is pushed back slightly and laughs again as he holds his chest in pain.
The sun setting sky suddenly changes with a sparkly wave to Night. As the sky changes as does the knight, his injures heal with the change of time of day.
From the sudden change of olden orange sky to dark night Katherine yelps and leeches herself to the knight's arm and buries her face in his shoulder. "Eh what's wrong Kathie you scared of the dark or something?" Ace asks eyeing the trembling girl.
"Er…or something" she replies muffled from the red trench coat. "I can't see where I'm going can I please hold on to you?" she asks with her foot tapping in front of her searching for anything that may be in front of her and cause her to fall.
Ace smiles softly and wraps the arm Kathie was holding round her shoulders, "of course lets go….this way" he says pointing to the darkest part of the forest.
"AHHH!" the red head screams shaking her head, "NO! Too dark there lets go that way…" she says pointing to another direction, her eyes then light up at the sign of lights shining above the trees along with fairground music play. "That way yes that way!" the photography student creams with delight and drags the knight towards the music and lights. The pair then suddenly stumble upon a pink and purple cobblestone road, up head was the a large lit up sign arch way 'Wonderful Wonder Wonderland Amusement Park'
"AHH an amusement park it's been ages since I've been to one!" Katherine squeals releasing Ace and skipping ahead grinning widely.
"But I thought you wanted to go to the heart castle to meet the Queen?" Ace asks walking behind the red head.
"Of course I still want to go but it's an amusement park! It has FOOD!" the photography student cheers loudly with joy throwing her hands high in the air. "So that's go!" Katherine yells running behind the knight and starting to push him ahead making him laugh and deliberately dig his heels into the ground to make it difficult for the red head. "ARG Ace you weight crazy come on cut me a break! I wanna eat greasy theme park food!" Katherine whines leaning her forehead against the brunette's back.
Ace smiles widely and lifts his heel up making the red head's weight leaning on him suddenly make him move along with the girl. Ace quickly catches her in his arms as she stumbles back, "whoops sorry" he laughs helps Katherine stand, she dusts herself off and then takes charge to the park once again, but the knight quickly grabs her by her wrist and with one yank he has her over his shoulder.
"HEY ACE PUT ME DOWN!" she screams hitting and kicking his back and his front, Ac simply laughs as he charges ahead to the park with the outsider over his shoulder.
The pair then with the knight's speed quickly reach the park finding it closing up. The brunette lets Katherine climb form his shoulder, "hmpt I could have walked!" she yells poking his chest.
Ace giggles, "I know but look they're closing up" the knight says leaning forward and hand spread out gesturing the closing stales.
"Hey Knight you get lost again!" a cat eared teen asks approaching the pair, he stops spotting Katherine and his nose twitches. The teen wore a pair of black tight studded jeans with rips and tears at the sides and knees – part of the design – along with a white cat head with an eye patch on it's right eyes and grinning widely. The teen also had a pair of black calf sneaker boots with the same white cat hanging from a chain. Along with a black sleeveless shirt that was tight showing of the teen's body shape, the shirt was tucked under a pink and black plaid scarf tied round his waist with a white grinning cat pin pinned to it keeping it tied. Around the teen's neck was a pink pet collar and a thick chain coming down to his waist, and black fingerless gloves that came to his elbow and on his fingers on his right hand were three rings. Another item he wore was a long pink and purple striped boa with various pins and medals pinned to it.
The Teen as Katherine noticed first was that his hair was pink and combed over his right eyes, alogn with having pink cat ears and a tail. His tail had a piercing with a fish dangling from him, his ears both had piercing one ear had with three and the other had four; both had two studs, one had a large long piercing covering the base of the left ear while the right had another fish piercing along with this was a piercing of the white cat symbol.
The cat eared teen starts approaching Katherine with his nose pointed forward. "Hmm you smell nice" the teen purrs wrapping his arm round the red head's waist to shove his nose into the girl's hair.
"Eh…thanks but please respect my personal space cosplayer" Katherine says pushing the cat eared boy away.
"ahahaha Kathie the kitty likes you!" Ace laughs, the red head's brow twitches and she elbows him in the gut.
"Boris hurry it up in helping the stale holders shut up so we can actually have our break!" a man with red hair in a braid yells walking up to the three, "eh Ace you got lost again?" he asks rubbing his head looking at the knight with a pained expression. The tall man dressed in a yellow suit with brown cargo boots coming to the mid-calf, a yellow scarf hanging over his shoulders with black musical notes spiralling round the scarf and hanging off the tassels of the scarf were merry-go-round horses. His shirt was white and ruffled down the button, the collar was large and had merry-go-round horses pins on the corners.
The yellow dressed man looks at Katherine and raises his brow, "ah sorry dear but the parks closing for tonight so why not come back when the time change is day time okay" the red haired man says making Katherine lower her head in disappointment.
"Ace who is she?" Boris asks snatching the girl's waist again making her yelp and struggle to get out.
"Grr I'm right here so just ask me instead of mister has no sense of direction here!" the photography screams finally getting free. "I'm Katherine nice to meet cha~" she greets and does a curtsy holding the sides of her dress.
The cat teen grins widely and bows making his tail go in the air, "Boris" he simple says.
"Hey Gowland can't you just stay open for a little longer?" Ace asks with a large grin.
Gowland sighs, "No Ace my workers need their sleeps and I can't keep it them up because you and your…hey what role are you I haven't seen you in heart before?" the older man asks leaning forward with one eye wide open glaring at Katherine.
Ace grins and places his hands on the red headed girl's shoulder, "that's because she's an outsider!"
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