Chapter 10
Alice walked along the long, checkered ground, where only she could hear the sounds of beating hearts. She then felt something squash under her foot. A packet of cards sprawled on the ground. They were different however. The clubs cards had real clovers on them, the diamond cards had real diamonds, the spade cards had tiny gardening spades on them, and what she had crushed, the heart cards had mice hearts attached. Alice gulped and shuddered. This was getting disgusting.
Alice walked along the checkered ground, and saw a large staircase. Alice began to venture up the stairs when she heard a jingling bell.
Alice turned around. No one, nothing. Paranoia? The jingle once more. Alice turned around. What was it?!
Now it was above her, and she looked up. Above her, a slender beautiful jester wearing dark ruby lipstick, heavy amount of mascara, and her entire body besides her face and hands, was coated in her jester's outfit of black and white, with the card suites in random places. Half her face was covered by her amber brown hair. The two bells on her head were large too.
Alice looked at her and almost fainted as she split into two, and dropped to the ground. One red, one black. They grinned simutaneously.
"We, have been excluded from fun again." The red one said.
"Your right, Jokeress." The black one said. They grabbed thier hands together and pushed thier heads together.
"Don't worry sister, we will have fun indeed." The black one said.
They both turned to Alice who stood thier, dumbfounded.
"Oh look, a little cur." The red one said.
"The Queen will definately be displeased.." The black one agreed, and they both reached into thier sleeves and pulled out normal playing cards tipped with iron spikes. They grinned again.
"Let's play!" The red one said, almost seductively to Alice, and ninja style, threw an Ace Of Spades card at Alice. Alice moved out of the way and then the twins were jumping around, back flips, front flips, it was a spectacular display of death and battle.
Alice managed to dodge most of them, but did suffer cuts to her hands and feet.
Alice gritted her teeth and pulled out her guns and fired rapidly. The twins wern't even grazed by the bullets, nor were there outfits.
"Secret weapon game?" The black one exclaimed, manically excited.
"Yes, yes." The red one said, calmly and tore one of her bells off her hat and spun it on her finger, until it literally hovered into the air. The black one then did a hand stand, gripping the red one's shoulders and spun her legs out spread, managing to harshly hit the bell, and it spun fast at Alice. Alice moved out of the way and the bell crashed into the wall. Suddenly, the bell vibrated and an extremely loud ringing filled the room, and the walls and floors were now ruptured, and Alice screamed, holding her ears. The portraits of a woman had paint that looked dry for centuries literally drip onto the floor.
Alice looked at the twins. Thier outfits seemed to offer some protection. She then looked down and saw all the swamp mud that had been on her dress this entire time had melted off.
Alice got her guns and knocked it accidentally and suddenly 3 holed appeared at the nozzle. Alice fired at the twins, and succesfully killed the red one.
The black one screamed, and mourned her sister's death, and turned to Alice. ALice noticed that the happy excited bieng she was, had turned into a bieng of ultimate depression. Human on the outside, pain on the inside. The Black one got out a dagger, almost identical to Alice's only that the handle was made of Onyx stone, and the end of the blade dripped a blue goo.
Alice got her dagger out. Simutaneously, the threw thier daggers.
Alice's dagger penetrated the Black one's dagger and went straight through the Black one's neck.
Dead, Alice watched as a red and black fairy light crept from both corpses and joined each other.
Alice nodded and went up the stairs, until she reached a door in the shape of a diamond.
Alice moved past the doors.