-Continuation of wonderland fantasy-

The white roses were dripping red paint. There are other girls painting the other white roses red, and some guys too. They are all wearing white, but on the shoulders and where their knees where there were red hearts and a number next to them as it they were cards from a deck. They were muttering things amongst themselves. One was a little girl with strawberry blonde hair, another had blue hair, and then there was the guy that had dirty blonde curly hair. They were mumbling things to themselves then the caterpillar/Sokiko lady showed up and said

"why are you painting the white roses red? The empress will be furious"

"What do we care of what the queen thinks?" the blue haired little girl said

"You should care, she will kill you"

"WHY ARE THEY PAINTING MY WHITE ROSES RED?!" came a terrifying voice. It sent a trill of fear running up my spine. A woman with long light purple hair and blood red eyes was pointing at Alice/Momo and heather/Izzy

"Off with their heads! I want them dead! They painted my white roses red!" I felt like I was being strangled, then I looked down, I was heather/Izzy. My hair was shorter, and I wasn't wearing what I had been wearing a minute ago. I had a chain wrapped around my throat and the queen of hearts was holding the handle of the chain. I was suffocating, my breath coming out in gasps. Then I was separated from the body. I saw black flames encircling the chain and burning the empress's hand.

"You impudent child!" then a blue circle of fire appeared a few yards away, and Rei stepped out of it.

"Sochiro!" she said, her eyes narrowing

"What is it that you want baka?"

"I've done my part on this deal, now you do yours"

"Why would I do that? I have you completely under my control" Rei scowled

"As long as my little brother and Issabella's mother" I looked down where Izzy was, there was a bunch more people I didn't recognize. But Momiji. I recognized him. He had a chain wrapped around his arm, and wince when the empress pulled on the chain

"I am the empress! I can do whatever I want to do!" she said slapping Rei.

"Stop it!" shrieked Izzy. She brought out the black flames and they broke the chain on her neck. Her eyes went cloudy, and she collapsed on the floor. Sokiko, the caterpillar lady, had on an elegant dress and said to the empress

"Its part of the prophesy empress"

"SCREW THE DAMN THING! IF I COULD DO IT WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THOSE IDIOTS COULD?!"

"Its pa-" Sokiko didn't get a chance to finish her sentence. The empress had slapped her and knocked her back with immense force. I looked back at Izzy, her body on the floor, bruised and bleeding, Momiji was crying, as well as a few other people I didn't recognize

"You bitch!" Rei said slapping the empress. The empress's face looked bewilder

"Stop treating people like crap you self-centered bitch! You have no right to do that!" the look on the empress's face was terrifying. She muttered something illegible, and then Rei fell to her knees in obvious pain

"As if you can defeat me! As if any of you-" she said looking at the people huddled on the floor "could stop me from killing you all!"

"Be quiet" everyone turned to the seemingly lifeless corpse of Issabella Momori.

"You're giving me a headache" she said pushing her arms to raise herself up a bit. She kneeled on the floor

"Who made you the damned queen of this place?! Who was stupid enough to allow you to rule!?" she said standing up

"You egotistical moron!" just then a loud booming noise sounded. Then portals opened from all over the walls and a lot of people started coming out, like when you're at school and the bell rings and the halls flood with people. The all froze when they saw the empress and the other people. Hushed tones and wary eyes overlooked the scene.

"I have an army of people willing to fight you! You cannot defeat me!" A small girl with blue hair, I recognized her as one of the painters of the roses, stepped forward.

"Sochiro, do you really intend to break the cycle?"

"Silence! I am your ruler!" the small girls eyes flashed white and then she scowled

"You dare bet against my power!?" the small girl yelled. The empress scowled

"I can do what I want!" she shot out flames aimed for Izzy, but she shot back with her own black ones that made the white ones disappear and still kept going for the empress. She was knocked back down again, and blood was seeping out of her mouth

"Those who serve their empress will fight for her!" The empress said to the crowd

"And those who wish to move forward and live a better life will fight against her!" the small blue haired child rebutted.

Then a loud cracking noise erupted from the crowd of people followed by several others. I don't know who threw the first punch. I don't know how the people started enveloping the small group I was in. I don't know why wind blew by me, but I do know that after that wind passed Izzy was laughing. It was a small laugh at first, the kind of laugh you would give if your best friend told you a really bad joke. But it gradually turned into a hysterical laugh, a laugh of denial and pain. Her hand was covering a spot on her chest and now she moved it revealing what looked like a spear head lodged deep inside her chest, it was oozing bright crimson blood

"So the games have begun. Ne Rei-Chan?" she said with a small fairy like smile.

"Yes, but I think we're a bit outnumbered don't you think?" she said turning to the side. Out of her side there was a long bloody gash, and the two were talking as if it was a friendly game.

"Oh, yes indeed, don't you think it will be more fun with our pets?"

"I totally forgot about them!" Rei exclaimed like a little kid, while clapping her hands together. They looked at a purpled headed guy and a carrot top, with devious looks in their eyes. Then they were both engulfed in flames, Rei in blue ones and Izzy in black ones. They had transformed, Izzy looking like a 17 year old, her hair long and vibrant, and a white blouse and long red skirt. She turned back to the empress

"Shall the games begin between you and me?" she asked. The empress glared at her

"Of course" she said as civilized as she could manage. Mean while I looked at Rei and she had an elegant and ordinate black slick dress. She had ghosted over to the orange haired boy and the purple haired boy and her hands went through them extracting something odd. They looked like spheres of light that transformed into hideous monsters. The one from the orange haired boy turned into what looked like a deformed disgusting rabbit, and the one from the violet haired boy, turned into a fiery green serpent like creature. From herself came one that looked like a giant bird, that was melting, but on blue fire at the same time. Izzy summoned hers, that looked like a giant deformed rabbit as well, but hers was larger, more vicious and it was on black fire. Izzy and Rei turned to face each other

"Nous restons ensemble?" Rei said. Izzy smiled and nodded then she laughed

"jusqu'à la fin" they smiled and held each other's hands, before a giant ball of white fire was thrown at them Izzy cursed and her hand covered up another bleeding spot on her arm. She removed her hand from the wound and on her palm the blood had taken the shape of a spade (like from a deck of cards) from it sprouted a large lethal looking sword. She ran into the crowd of fighting people and demons, slicing anyone who was her enemy.

Rei, in the mean while had just decapitated some guy who tried to get near the Sohma's- hold on… when did I learn their names?! Whatever. She then made a barrier while saying to them

"You can either fight for you lives, or die with us" Kyo, Yuki, chu-chi, Nauto and Makenna and laurel- I'm serious how do I know their names?!- left the barrier to fight. They fought against the demons and people, trying to protect the others still in the barrier.

I looked back at Izzy who had apparently lost her sword, but then she dug her hands into one of the enemies and then tore him up from the inside out. His insides were drenched in scarlet blood, and now the red-headed girl was speckled in dried and fresh blood. Something hit her back, and an almost animalistic growl escaped her lips as she pounced on the offending person.

The small blue haired girl caught my attention. She looked so small and fragile I was afraid she would break, but she just stood perfectly still in the center of the fighting, with her eyes closed and her hands behind her back. When someone tried to attack her –BOOM- she went into fighting stance and orange flames shot out of her palms. It paralyzed her opponent, and made them see things that I couldn't, but the sight obviously was torturing to the person. They writhed on the floor begging for death to come and finish them.

Then I saw the white haired girl- Sokiko was it? - She was attending to the injured, as was Nauto. The guy from my Alice and wonderland fantasy, the mad hatter- or was it Takeo? Well either was he was fighting too, and he had a samurai sword and had just plunged it deep into someone's chest, and I watched as that person evaporated into thin air.

Then there was a loud shriek. Everyone who was in the fight turned towards the sound that made all others nothing compared to it. I looked at it. Izzy was fighting against the empress. The empress had part of her arm missing. That's why she had screamed

"You stupid girl! I'll kill you!" the empress said firing another ball of white light at Izzy. She had managed to avoid it before it hit her, but then her sword came from the spade of her palm. She swung it at the empress who dodged it by a hair. Everyone around them was captivated by the fight

Then the empress vanished into thin air. Her voice echoed and bounced off the walls

"You cannot defeat me! I am all powerful!" then she appeared again behind Izzy's back and she held a blade up to her throat

"Izzy! No!" came a small plea from the blonde. He pushed his way through the crowed trying to get to the red-head. Before he could get to her, one of the empress's loyal servants captured him

"Take one more step and your precious girl will die" at that moment I felt a burst of rage. I wanted to pry Momiji out of the woman's arms, and kill her with my hands. I hated that she would ever even think of laying a hand on him. I grudgingly peeled my eyes away from Momiji to see Izzy and the empress wielding their weapons. Izzy had her sword with a ruby in the handle, and the empress had a black staff with a black half heart handle. The empress smiled and said again mockingly

"You cannot defeat me" Izzy lunged after the empress, and then her sword reverberated when it came in contact with the staff. They hit, over and over, the sound nearly making my ears bleed. The empress in frustration gave an animalistic growl.

Then… then there was a sickening cracking noise. It caused my stomach to twist uneasily. Both Izzy's and my eyes widened in fear. We turned torwards the sound of the crack. In the arms of the servant was Momiji, his eyes lifeless, blood seeping from his partly open mouth. In my rage I was seeing red.

Izzy let out a choked sob and she dropped the sword, the she dropped herself onto her knees, tears streaming down her face. The empress laughed

"That's right… bow before me!" in Izzy's eyes there was pain, loss, frustration, rage… from where she was she looked up at the empress who was now in front of her. The empress strangled her, and lifted her up into the air as far she her arms would allow it. Izzy's legs dangled in the air, but she said nothing. She just looked down at the floor, there was a laugh accompanied by another, and another, until a bunch of people were laughing.

"You've just broken the last control that the demon has, my you really are foolish so-chi-ro~!" said a girl with long brown hair.

"URASAI!" she said throwing her staff trying to hit her head. But she almost dropped Izzy when she did that

"Demon?! This girl is broken, lifeless!" there were several choked sobs amongst the laughter. Then the oddest thing happened. Izzy began to laugh. It was a psychotic laugh, crazy and wild. Her hands held onto the empress's

"You took the most important thing in my life away…" her nails dug into Sochiro's (the empress) hand. Trails of blood were seeping down but she didn't do anything about it. Izzy's arm shot out to slap her and Sochiro dropped her as a result, and Izzy kicked her legs out tripping the empress, while she tried to get to Momiji. The empress stopped her, and Izzy punched her square in the jaw. Blood seeped from the cut in her lip and she smiled, which led to punch after cracking punch. The empress fell to the ground, and then Izzy took out her sword again and cut her wrist with it so now the edge of the blade was dipped in blood, and she dug into the ground. Waves of blood rose in streaks on the ground and cut up the empress. Izzy walked calmly over to her and her hand went through the empress digging out her heart. Then she ripped up the empress from the inside out, her blood splattering all over the place, along with bits of her organs.

Izzy turned to see Momiji

And I saw that her hair was turning black as night. She scowled and the servant dropped the lifeless body of the little boy. I hadn't noticed but Sokiko Takeo Rei and Emiko (the small blue haired girl) had gone to the back of the crowd and had been killing almost all of Sochiro's servants. Now Rei was close to Izzy and one of the minions tried to attack Izzy, Rei blocked it the demon's claws embedding into her heart, and killing her. I could literally feel all the blood drain out of me, as I watched my best friend be killed. Izzy turned around scared and threw a punch at the demon, breaking its weak neck, and killing it. She sank to her knees in between the bodies of the now dead, Momiji and Rei. She buried her face in her hands and Takeo went to her aid. He muttered something to her and she nodded. She placed her hands on the chests of the corpses and closed her eyes. Her hands were covered in black fire, and she began to glow, soon she evaporated, but Momiji and Rei had opened their eyes. Momiji sat up quickly

"Where's Izzy?!" he said panicking. Then there were whispers and everyone went down on one knee facing the same direction. Rei did the same thing and Momiji and I looked in the direction. Emiko said loudly

"All hail the empress!" WHAT THE HELL?! I thought Izzy killed the empress!? I looked over to where the empress was supposed to me, and to my surprise…

Izzy was there. She was the empress. I thought she had died… how are Momiji and Rei alive? She scowled and then looked over at the people from the beginning of this hallucination. Then sudden unbearable pain racked through my body, I felt like I would rather die than live through that pain, then there was nothing but black…

-Envylamperouge- …k… that was a REALLY long chapter for me (2729 words!) TwT I hope you're happy. Well I did the best I could for the battle scene… TwT please review~… FLYLEAF RULES!-

Original post date: 10/18/2009