Alice in NightmaRe
"Yoo-Hoo~! Time to get up!" A cheerful voice greeted her as a warm hand shook her shoulder.
"What time is it?" Alice mumbled as she rolled over.
"It's six."
" 'M tellin' ya, that's just you…" She groaned as she fell back asleep.
"…Miss Alice?" He poked and prodded her sides with a stick. She giggled and shuffled around until…
"Miss Alice, please wake up or else I will have to jab you with my cane," he threatened in a preppy voice.
"Ain't that thing a sword…?"
"Exactly."
"…"
Alice shot up from the floor, "Then hell, I'm awake."
"Good morning~!" He patted her head.
She rubbed her eyes to find Break in perfect condition, only error being that he wore only his dress-shirt now that his coat had been ruined.
"Where ya stains…?" She slurred, trying to force herself to wake up, even though she had said she was awake
"Stains?" He lifted a brow.
"Stomach stains…face stains…" Alice yawned, talking about the blood that was once on his abdomen and face the night before.
"I ate them," he replied, shaking her shoulders, trying to wake her up.
"Tats gud phor you…"
"…Miss Alice, I didn't want to do this but…" Break lifted his cane and yelled as he whacked her in the stomach, "DEMON BEGONE!"
"HOLY FUCK!" She gasped as she bent over in a 90 degree angle, whimpering in pain, "Ya ain't fucking exorcising a demon, here!"
"It is called the demon of sleep," he laughed, "Now that you are awake, why don't we get out of this place before it becomes our graveyard?"
Alice, finally fully awake and alert, shivered at her surroundings and nodded in agreement, "Where are we going?"
Break stomped over the pile of ashes and burnt sticks where their fire from the night before once was there and replied, "We're taking a trip to my house. I don't fancy walking around with strips of cloth what you call bandages around me the whole journey long."
She pouted as she snatched her coat off the ground and put it on, "Whatever."
Alice followed Break out of the forest about ten feet away from him while watching him intensely, unsure whether to trust him or not. Break, on the other hand, could feel her stare boring into his back and clicked his tongue, "Tch, you could you stop trying to burn a hole through my head?" He snapped, irritably, "If you're still worried about the fact that I'm a Chain, you don't have to worry about a premature death. If I wanted to kill you, I could have done so in the forest."
Realizing this, Alice relaxed a bit and walked a bit closer, enough to make small talk about everyday things, comforting Break, knowing that there was someone in the world who cared enough to chat with him.
"It's too bad Mister Vincent went to sleep so early in the day," Alice said aloud, "One could do many things while he is asleep and he would never know. Why, he could be robbed at this very moment! His lazy carelessness could even lead to his own death!"
"He may appear this way, but in reality, he is actually very hardworking. It's a pity you don't get to meet him when he's doing his best," Liam laughed as he took a sip of tea.
Xerxes raised his eyebrows, "THAT thing can work?"
"Oh yes, brat, he's very diligent. He makes toys for the children of Wonderland, both human and not," The man in glasses smiled at Alice, "Maybe he'll make you something too one day."
"I hope he makes me a cat," Alice pondered, "My Diane disappeared and she hasn't returned since."
"I'm sure she'll come back."
"Even though nothing can replace her…when do you think he'll make me a Diane?" She asked hopefully.
Liam laughed again, "Soon enough. He's not known as Diligence for nothing."
"How does one go about this place?" Alice questioned aloud, "I can't tell the difference between morning and night here; the sky's always black, red, or a blackish red. In fact, we could be walking around at night and be sleeping during the day. I feel like a nocturnal animal."
"It's an animal's instincts that help you decipher, nya~"
"Get back!" Break pushed Alice away from the new voice that emerged from the trees to hurl itself at them.
Alice, being the small figure she was, was able to quickly evade the attack with the instincts she had newly gathered from the depths of herself to the left and Break snapped himself to the right.
The smoke slowly cleared, enough for Alice to see the tremendous mess of the ground. The tinkle of a bell was heard.
"Nyao~" The boy meowed with a bored expression plastered on his face.
"What the fuck do you want?" Break growled, holding his cane in two hands, preparing to unsheathe his sword.
When the dust finally cleared away, she turned to the attacker. He was about as old as Break, fashioned in black clad, ribbons of black and pink, and abnormally large claws. Two large bells each adorned the ends of his giant ribbons and one small one was strung around his neck. The two cat ears on his messy, short black hair twitch as his long, silky, black tail curled upward and Alice unconsciously knew that he was happy. But despite all his odd traits, only one thing shocked her: he had bloody red eyes, incredibly similar to that of Break. And while Break covered his left eye, the boy in front of her covered his right.
"You damned –"
Before Break could finish, the boy jumped in the air and his ribbons surrounded him before he disappeared through thin air. Alice frantically looked around before she felt the presence of a person right behind her.
The boy sniffed her as he leaned his chin on her shoulder, "Who's your friend, Break?"
"Hey!" She turned around to shove him off as he jumped back onto a tree branch and licked one of his giant paws.
"She smells like a Contractor…" he cocked his head, "But she smells like a Chain too…" He turned to Break, "I didn't think you'd resort to sleeping with Contractors to get them to help you."
"Son of a –"
Break didn't even bother finishing his sentence. He unsheathed his sword and took a swing at the stranger. He flipped backwards and slid back.
"Damned cat!" Break cursed as he attempted to attack again.
The attacker stepped back and disappeared again before appearing behind Break and clawing his back.
"Your senses have dulled, nya…" the boy mumbled, "Is your eyesight gone yet?"
Break stepped back, clawing at his bleeding back and biting his lip.
The boy gave a dark chuckle before whipping his head towards his left. He raised his claws and blocked Alice who hurled at him with the Keyblade. She was strong enough to push him back and sparks flew as the metal from the blade and his claws stroke together.
"Who are you and why are you messing with Break?" She asked after jumping away from him.
He cocked his head, "Don't you remember, stupid girl? I was your favorite pet."
"I never had a pet," Alice retorted.
He lifted a brow before grinning, "Ah, I see. Maybe you really are Alice. You chose a good pawn, this time!" He snapped his head at Break, "But if she really is the Alice, then your rebellion would be worthless. She'd be dead before even getting near the castle."
"I'm nobody's pawn!" She snapped.
The boy in black turned back to her, "Nobody was killed a while ago. I believe Nobody died at the hands of the Red Queen."
Alice frowned in confusion, "But I thought she killed lots of people…nearly everybody!"
He shook his head, "No, Everybody should be alive, I think he's living alone at Somewhere."
"…What?" Alice shook her head in confusion, "Whatever, I don't care who you are anymore, but what do you want?"
"Nothing much, just checking up on my old friend," he grinned darkly at Break, "And a wonderful donator he is."
"It's not donating if it was taken from you against your will!" Break growled ferociously.
"You never disagreed."
"What, were my screams not enough for you?"
"Now that you mention them, I want to hear them again…" he snickered as Break continued his glare.
"Get the fuck out!" Alice screamed at him.
He pouted, "We'll meet again anyway…but you better hope we won't – the next time I see you may be your last." He again snapped himself in the air and disappeared without a trace.
There was an awkward moment of silence broken by Break's grunt as he leaned against a tree. Alice rushed to his aid, "Are you alright?"
"I've been worse," he sighed, but she could still see the malice in his eyes as she helped him stand properly, "I feel like a weak newbie…"
She frowned, "Hey, we all have our days."
Break gave a small smile, "I'm hoping that this will be my only day."
Alice smiled too before asking, "Who was he?"
His smile faded as his voice dripped with hatred, "You might know him as Cheshire Cat."
"What is 'diligince'?" Alice asked.
"Diligence is to be hard working," Xerxes explained as he took a sip of his own tea, "It is also one of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, which is the seven good deeds that'll get you into Paradise after death."
Liam looked at him with surprised eyes, "So you go to church?"
"Or rather, I'm interested in what opposes the Seven Deadly Sins," he smirked, trying to hide his pride.
Alice cocked her head, only being able to understand half of what they just said.
"I'm actually surprised you caught on," Liam chuckled, "Half the kids who come here don't exactly put two and two together. There are seven circles on the Seven Seal Card for a reason."
"I'm assuming they represent the Seven Heavenly Virtues?"
Liam laughed, "Well, Vincent doesn't seem like a Sin, does he?"
Xerxes played with the tea in his cup, "He could be Sloth for always sleeping…"
A girl in a fancy, but lonely room with shelves full of porcelain dolls held a doll with a trembling hand. Its entire structure had been broken for sure, considering its cracks spreading throughout its body and face.
"It was broken…" the girl mumbled, "But it's been put back…"
She began to giggle, "But if it was broken once, it'll be easy to break again…"
She put back the doll on the shelf. The doll that looked oddly familiar. The doll that looked
like Alice.
And that concludes the ninth chapter of Alice in NightmaRe.
Oh my, an update. Happy face~
Despite its filler-like content, it's actually chock-full with information. I pretty much gave away most of what the plot will be based upon. In fact, I think I gave a bit too much away...
Oh, and I've been wondering about this for a while...what do you guys picture me as? A twenty year old with a good job for a seven year old genius who is a bit too creepishly good at vocabulary? I want to see how close you'll get xD
YOU KNOW HOW I BASE MY CHAPTERS OFF OF? The number of reviews must be as twice (or more) as much as the number of chapters. Since I don't include the omake, it's only chapter nine with 21 reviews, so after the next chapter I will await one more review for the eleventh...I'm a selfish OCD (ITS ACTUALLY CDO IN ABC ORDER) person...
I was a bit sad that not many people but the usual readers are reading and reviewing for the story, but many have story-alerted so I try to be grateful about that...Then I get jealous when I see stories with like four chapters and seventy-something reviews D:
I might have to go back to some chapters and revise it a bit here and there for the story to work because I can't seem to bear writing it all and making it perfect without a single update. So if something seems off, you can ask me or go back a few chapters and sorry for the trouble.
Thanks to the usual oBseSSiON Is ODd for reviewing and enjoying the story (and its random omake xDD I'll be sure to make another for every tenth review [as in twenty, thirty, fourty, etc]). Oh, and it was no problem beta-ing your story, it was actually really fun! I should beta some more :3 And thanks for putting me on Author Faves, I think it's the first time it's ever happened! (jumps and glomps you)
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