Chapter 10

Gate of The Lion

Alice later on her bed staring at the ceiling. She got up and looked at her cards.

There was of course March Hare, the strange thing about that card was that it was a blend of two cards. It was the White Rabbit combined with the March Hare. Thats why when she snapped her fingers the rabbit changed. She liked the name March Hare so she called then that. March Rabbit just wasn't right.

The White Rabbit freeze time. The March Hare freezes the person. They went together nicely.

She went to the next card, it was a fat light purple cat with darker purple stripes. Half of its body was gone. Cheshire Cat. It can in handy when she wanted to be invisible.

The next card was one of her favorite. Mad Hater. It was huge hat sitting on top of well...it was...nothin but smoke. It was smoke that had a persons form. He held a tea cup that was missing one side. He could summon weapons, but they were shards of broken teacups and cracked in half plates. He also had the power to cancel ones power. Very Very handy.

Jabberwocky was the largest summoned beast she had. She had used this card to defeat Laxus. Very easy.

She set down the rest of her cards. The rest were well just playing cards. She could pull any number of them out all she had to say was the symbol and the number. For example if she said Ace Of Hearts. A card with one heart one it would magically grow bigger until it turned into either a soldier with a sword or a wall. Nice defense.

Then there was the white queen. She had never summon her before. For all she knew it might useless. There was no picture on the card. It was just white.

Then there was a card designed to kill. The Queen of Hearts. A card that could kill anyone or anything. But it took a price to summon her. There also was no picture, just splatters of what looked like blood.

Cards...She looked at her golden keys. All ten of them.

She sighed and put both of them away.

'Alice...Don't forget...'

Her head throbbed. She had no clue where the voice can from. But she had gotten used to it. The voice first called her Alice. She liked that name so she kept it.

"I won't forget..."

She had tried talking to it. It never responded.

'Gray should be next...'

She nodded. Gray would be easiest to take down, he was weaker that Erza. But then again Erza was weaker than Laxus. She had beat Laxus with no trouble. But she listened to the voice. She looked through her cards. Mad Hater? Cheshire Cat? Jabberwocky again? March Hare? Or...Better yet...Loki. She smiled.

'Perfect...'

The voice echoed in her head.

'Perfect...'

Natsu sat in the bed. He still had to stay in here. He looked outside, almost night. He sighed and hoped he would be able to participate tomorrow. He looked over at Laxus. It would take him quite a while.

But there was something familiar about the name Alice.

"Alice...Alice...The Queen Of Hearts...March Hare...Jabberwocky..."

Why did those names sound so...Familiar. He had heard them before somewhere. He racked his brain. He thought about Lucy's fake last name.

"WonderWish...WonderWish Wonder...Land?"

WonderLand...He was pretty sure he heard that before. He yawned. He should ask Levy. Maybe she would know. He leaned back and stared at the ceiling. Right when his head hit the pillow. He fell asleep.

He yawned and woke up. Wendy was looking at him.

"You look better Natsu-San!"

"Yeah thanks Wendy. Did I miss anything?"

She nodded.

"Everyone has done the course already. Except Fairy Tail and SaberTooth..."

He looked up to see a Lacrima screen.

"UP NEXT GRAY FULLBUSTER FROM FAIRY AND HE'S AGAINST ALICE? SHE'S GOING AGAIN!? ISN'T SHE POPULAR!"

The crowd cheered.

"Wendy...Whats the course...?"

"Oh it's just like hide and seek. Both teams look for the other team. They will entering a fake jungle from different openings."

Natsu nodded and sat up. He looked at Lucy and Gray. Lucy had a smug look on her face. Something flashed on her belt. The did a zoom in on her. Right when they moved closer he could see what was on her belt.

Her key pouch...In her hand was something he thought he'd never see. It was the key to open the gate of The Lion...She was going to use Loki to fight Gray...She knew Gray could never attack a friend...She knew that...

Ohhhhhhhh...Wonder what's gonna happen...

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Yeah let's see if Gray can fight Loki? Shall we?

-Suspenseful music plays...-

Well you know more about her cards now...