Pure: Two in one day, that works, but won't happen often. Hopefully others are still enjoying this story. One more chapter after this one and this will be over. Then I can start on my other stories that I have neglected. Hope you enjoy this one.
I don't own Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice.
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Sebastian glared at both men that stood in front of him, mostly at the one who had Lorina trapped with a blade to her neck. He grabbed Alice's upper arm, his sword out in front of him. "White, what a interesting surprise." The blonde looked over at the other man. "To you though, not so much, Gray Ringmarc."
Gray tightened his grip on his knives. "Release her."
"Why don't you release her first?" he motion to the brunet in White's grip.
"I don't f**king think you are in a position to be giving f**king orders either." White spat back, teeth bared.
The young man sighed as he shook his head. "My, when have you gotten so rebellious White? I've never seen you act like this before." He lifted his right pointer finger, his grip still on his sword. "Looks like I need to discipline you so that you know your place."
An explosion came behind the two men; they both cringed away from it as White's grip loosened around Lorina.
Sebastian let go of the brunette and lunged forward to grab the older women. He pulled her back and away from the other men. "Take Alice and run. I'll catch up soon enough." The blonde instructed as he blocked a knife being thrown their way.
"Come on." Lorina grabbed the girl's wrist and tugged her along.
They ran to the window and crashed through it in order to get out. Quickly after ran towards the forest.
The house was going to burn down; the blonde jumped out of the building and landed a few feet away from it. He saw the lizard jump out as well and took off after the girls. "Oh no you don't—"Sebastian raised his sword to throw it, but something wrapped around it to prevent further movement.
"You're not going anywhere." The jester said as he pulled back on his whip.
"Tch…you're no fun White." He said looking over his shoulder; he tipped the sword back to cut through the whip. But another one just wrapped itself around his waist. "You are wasting my time, enough of this." Sebastian threw his sword up into the air as he backed flipped to land on top of the whip. White was then pulled forward along with it; the blonde caught his sword as he swung it towards the jester.
Before the sword made contact, White blocked it with his gun. "You're…better than I thought."
"What do you take me for? I'm not someone you should mess with."
"Then I'll be the first someone to f**king mess with you." White kicked Sebastian's feet causing the man to stagger backward as he jumped back.
Laughter escaped the blonde's lips while he placed a hand over his eyes. "You continue to amaze me Joker; I didn't know you had it in you. But for your disobedience, you must be punished."
"What shit are you blabbing on about?"
"I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet. Your whole reason for existence…is to serve me."
Zircon eye narrowed as his grip tightened on his gun.
"I see you don't believe me, no matter," the blonde pulled out another sword and had them both in front of him. "I'll just make you believe then."
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Alice continued to run beside Lorina, or more liked being pulled along by her wrist. "Hey where are we going?" she asked as they pushed through some bushes.
"We're getting out of here."
"I can see that, I'm asking where exactly we are going."
The older brunette sighed as they came to a stop. The trees looked much thicker than the other parts of the forest they had passed. Less sunlight penetrated the area making it look rather eerie like. "You have a sharp tongue, now learn to hold it." Lorina looked more closely at her surroundings, they were getting closer to the spot, she was sure of it.
"If you're not going to tell me where we are going, I'm not moving any further." Alice stated as she put her free hand on her hip.
"You're more troublesome then you're worth. We are going to another house on the other side of this world. Only I and Sebastian know of it and how to get there, we will meet up with him there."
The girl nodded her head slowly, it seemed right to her, but still agitated her at the same time. They continued to walk through the forest, pushing away branches and bushes that got in their way. It was quiet the whole time, too quiet for Alice's liking. 'Aren't there suppose to be birds chirping, or at least wind blowing the leaves on the trees? It's dark enough as it is; this silence is making it too frightening.'
"Don't move." Lorina whispered to her, they waited yet no sound came. Then a twig snapped not too far from where they stood. "Run!" the older brunet burst into a run, pulling Alice along with her.
The two ran as fast as they could, but a knife was able to cut Lorina on the side of her right cheek. Both stopped as the brunet pulled out two chopsticks which she then changed them into a M1918 light machine gun. She pulled the young girl behind her using one arm to block her, while the other used the gun to shoot at the direction the knife came from.
Gray dodged the bullets that came his way, a few ripped through his clothing, but none hit him. "Alice!" he shouted to her, the older brunet disappeared from his sight. The lizard looked around, trying to find the slightest of movements in the trees.
'Over there!' he thought as he used a knife to block a short sword that came close to his head.
"Fast…not bad lizard." Lorina jumped back away from the man, she pulled out a ball like structure and threw it at the ground. Smoke came from it; the older women ran back to Alice and once more pulled her along.
The two ran far and fast as they could go to lose the ex-assassin. Some twists and turns later, they stopped to catch their breaths. Night came quickly which made the forest look uncanny than before. A strong wind picked up enough that both girls had to hold down their dresses from flying up.
Lorina saw what she had been searching for when the wind blew away some leaves on the ground. "Come on, we don't have much time." She pulled at the latch and the door swung open.
Alice followed Lornia down the hole, stepping down as she held onto the latter. The door above closed and was sealed tight.
"That should buy us some time, let's go." The brunet lit a match to then light a lamp she held. Tunnels lead deep underground going who knows where, Lorina picked one to the far left and began to walk.
The place wasn't reassuring for the young girl, it crept her out more instead. Hours seemed to pass as they continued walking down the tunnel. Random thoughts ran through Alice's head about her current situation. What was she going to do? How could she escape from the ones who took her? Another thought passed her mind, one she still needed answers for.
"Lorina…?"
Said women looked over her shoulder. "What is it?"
"Please tell me why Sebastian wants me, you must know the reason."
Momentarily stopping, Lorina turned all the way around to face her. "He has already told you his reason, what more do you need?"
"I know that's not true! There has to be something else to it! Please tell me…everything has been so confusing lately. I'm at a lost to why he would, it can't be that I'm a foreigner, there's something more. I can feel it."
Another sigh came from the older brunet, a small, sad smile formed on her lips. "You looked so much like the original…you…are going to replace me. At least that's what I think anyway; by the way he's been talking about you ever since you found him that day."
"W-What do you m-mean by…that I'm replacing y-you?"
"Exactly what I said, I'm going to…die per say. I wasn't meant to survive this long; I was the first one to be created. Therefore was still an experiment that wasn't complete like the others were. Sebastian kept me going for this long, but not anymore. With you though…you wouldn't die, you could stay with him much longer…He's not a bad person, just lost and confused."
Alice stared down at the ground, lost in her own thoughts. Replace her? Why did this have to happen? All she wanted to do was go home, how hard was that?
"We need to keep going, come on, just a bit further." Lorina said as she put a hand on the girl's back. She gently pushed her along while she started to walk again.
Silence came once more between the two; the brunette was still lost in her own thoughts as the older women lead them through the tunnel. Their footsteps echoed throughout the cave like tunnel on the dirt floor, time passed, and silence still reigned. Neither tried to break it, nor knew how to with what just happened.
"Finally, we made it, now to start climbing." Lorina then motion for Alice to go first, she then stood off to the side to wait.
The young girl listen to what Lorina had said and began climbing. Alice soon came to a door; she pushed it open as light flooded into the tunnel. She climbed out and landed on the grass, they were still in the forest that much she could guess by her surroundings. But where were they to go from here?
A knife hit the latter that the older girl was climbing. "Shit he caught up to us!" she quickly climbed the rest of the way, hopping out, she threw a smoke bomb back down as she closed the door and locked it. "That should hold him for now, but we must get going!" Lorina grabbed Alice's wrist as she dragged her into the forest.
They ran as fast as they could, but an explosion from behind them came, they stopped to look back. Smoke rose up into the air about forty feet away from them, both girls ran once more through the forest, trying their best to get away from the ex-assassin.
Lorina screamed out in pain when two knifes made contact on her skin, one in her right shoulder while the other in her right lower calf. She fell to her knees as she held her injured shoulder. "Damn you little bastard." The brunet sneered teeth clenched tightly together.
Gray stood a few feet away from them, knives raised in front of him. "Release Alice…now."
"Tch," She got up and turned to face him. "Over my dead body you damn lizard."
"If that's what it takes so be it."
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"Lorina!" Sebastian shouted when he had heard her scream, he turned to go after the sound, but a whip wrapped around his right arm.
"You can't leave yet, things are finally getting interesting." White said as he pulled back on the whip.
The blonde also pulled back, they had been fighting along the way to the other hideout, both now equally tired and bruised up. Sebastian twisted around and grabbed the whip with his left hand; he pulled at it sending White forward. He then ran toward the jester sword out, but before he could swing it down, he was shot in his upper left arm.
"Don't think I would fall for the same f**king trick twice." White smirked as he unwrap the whip from around the blonde and hit him across the face.
The mask fell off Sebastian's face revealing his scar to the jester. "I was hoping you wouldn't."
"What do you-urgh!" Pain came throughout his body; he noticed that the other man wasn't in front of him anymore. He looked behind him and saw that he was there with his sword run through his stomach. "How did you…?" White coughed out blood, his eyes grew blurry from the blood loss.
"How do you think I got my role as the Looking Glass?" he held out the mirror in front so White could see his reflection. "This mirror can do a hell of a lot of different things than create another world." Sebastian pulled out his sword, causing more blood to pour out.
The jester fell to the floor holding his stomach; he looked up and saw that the wound in the blonde's shoulder was beginning to heal. "The f*ck…"
"I already told." Raising his sword once more, he drove it through White's chest right over his clock. "It can do much more than create." Sebastian glared down at the fallen jester. "Such a shame, what a waste of a perfectly good servant." he then ran off in the direction he had heard Lorina screamed from. Another sword appeared in his hand while he was running; trees disappeared behind him as he maneuvered through them.
'It should be coming up soon.' The blonde thought, as the trees lessen, he saw Lorina and Alice trapped by the lizard from the other world.
"If that's what it takes so be it." Gray had said raising his knife; he threw it at the brunet so that it would hit her clock. But a sword blocked it from ever reaching; he then had to quickly pull out another one to prevent getting hit by the sword.
Sebastian glared up at the ex-assassin; he twisted his wrist so that the sword would knock the knife away from the other man.
Gray reacted faster by changing his knife into a gun and shooting the blonde's left shoulder. He then backed away from him, gun still out.
"Not bad lizard, you're a lot more of a challenge than the one from here. But I don't expect much from the original." Sebastian raised his sword to attack, but the ground started to shake.
Alice lost her balance when the ground shook; she looked around and saw that the world seemed to be melting. 'What's going on? !' she noticed that the blonde had backed up and helped out Lorina.
The world around them fell apart; they had started to fall through space and soon landed on solid ground.
Sitting up, the brunette saw that they had landed on top of Clover Tower. "I'm back…I am finally back home…" she whispered to herself while looking around to make sure it wasn't an illusion.
"It's certainly not an illusion Alice." A voice had called out.
She gasped, turning around, the girl saw Nightmare standing on the other side of the roof. "Nightmare!" Alice stood up ready to run, but a sword blocked her path.
"I'm not handing her over quite yet incubus." Sebastian growled as he pushed both Alice and a wounded Lorina behind him.
"Hey! Let me go!" Alice had shouted as the mafia group brought her out onto the roof.
"Well this sure is an interesting reunion." White commented, appearing next to Nightmare.
Both Alice saw each other and stared with disbelief.
"You lost Sebastian, give her up." Nightmare demanded as he saw Gray return to his side.
"Tch, not without a fight." He pushed both girls over the edge, soon following after them.
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Pure: That part with Lorina's weapon took forever to find, and I'm not even sure it is even correct! So I'm sorry now if it's not the right one, I got frustrated and found one that made the most sense to me. One more chapter to go until Shattered Reality comes to an end! I had a good time working on this one, even though it turned out totally different than how I first planned it would. But hey, I guess it turned out well right? Thank you so much for reading this far and I hope you stay with me until the end! Leave a comment if you will and tell me what you think.
