Since Halloween is coming up soon, I figure to update this chapter and finish the Wonderland world. I know it was short for the Keyblade Wielders to stay in a world for a short time, but I am only doing this for worlds that have been visited in the past or have no follow-up sequels. Spoiler alert, you will like who the Banshee is! Anyways, let us begin!
Chapter 12
The Banshee let out another scream as she charged at Jason with her horse hammer. When she swings her hammer at him, Jason raised his right hand and a giant Nobody card appeared in front of him. When the Banshee's hammer collided with Jason's oversized card, she manages to destroy it but Jason was no longer there. When the Banshee was looking around, Jason appeared behind her with cards flying around his hands and sent a few of them flying at her. When the cards collided with the Banshee, she screamed in pain as some of them cut her. She angrily hissed as she turns around and saw him. Jason then ran a finger on the cut on his chest and said "That was for slicing me. We're even."
The Banshee screamed in rage as she switches her weapon back to her knife. Seeing this, Jason raised his right hand and dozens of giant Nobody cards appeared. Jason smirked and said "Let's see if you get the right card."
As Jason merge himself into one of the cards, all of the cards turned at Alice with the covers showing to her. Looking around, the Banshee roared as she starts slicing some of them. As all of them were nothing, when the Banshee sliced one of them, Jason appeared from the card with his Kingdom Sword Keyblade and swings it at her. Seeing Jason, the Banshee blocks his attacks and attacked him back. The Banshee manages to slice Jason's left arm, leaving a small gash on him. Jason gritted his teeth as he swings his Keyblade across the Banshee's head and knocks her to the ground. As Jason looks at his cut on his arm, the Banshee got up and screamed at him. Jason looks at her and said "Shut up!"
As he grips his Keyblade, Jason didn't notice it glowing in a grey light. When the Banshee got up and tried to attack him, Jason swings his Keyblade, and at that moment, he knocks her back as small spark of light entered the Banshee's body. Once the Banshee was knocked back, Jason noticed his Keyblade glowing grey, inspects it and asked "Why is my Keyblade glowing like that?"
But when Jason saw the Banshee getting up, Jason prepared himself again but heard something unexpected. He heard the Banshee saying "Kill…me…"
"What?" Jason asked, "Did she just talk?"
Sentinel then said "You have given her a little light."
Jason then looks at his Keyblade and said "Oh right, my Keyblade can balance Light and Darkness."
He looks at the Banshee and said "So if I add some Light in her…"
Sentinel then said "Then you can balance her heart and she might tell us where Alice is."
Jason nodded as he looks at the Banshee and said "You want me to kill you? Then come here."
The Banshee screamed as she charged at Jason. Once she was near, Jason thrust his Keyblade into the Banshee's chest. And all of a sudden, Light emitted from the Keyblade and into the Banshee. The Banshee screamed in pain as light blinded Jason for a bit. When the light died down, Jason's eyesight recovered and turns to see the Banshee. But to his surprise, the Banshee before him was changed completely. Her black hair stopped moving on it's own, her skin turned normal creamy white, the blood on her arms, hands, eyes and clothes were gone and her clothes were changed. She was now wearing a blue dress with a white apron, black/white stocking and black heel boots. As Jason looks closer, he saw a silver necklace with an Omega symbol pedant around her neck. Seeing her eyes closed, Jason slowly leans down and saw the girl's eyes quickly opening them, revealing them to be green. As the girl gasped for air, she slowly sat up but fell back to the ground.
Jason slowly held her, sat her up and said "Easy there, you okay?"
The girl nodded and said in an English accent "Where…Where am I?"
Jason replied "You in the garden near the castle."
The girl's eyes widen and said "Of the Queen of Hearts?!"
Jason nodded and said "I'm Jason. What's your name?"
When Jason helped her up, the girl lost her balance and fell forward. Jason was lucky enough to catch her before she fell to the ground. Once she had her balance, the girl looks at Jason and said "My…My name is Alice."
Hearing the girl's name, Jason's eyes widen and said "Alice? As in Alice, one of the Princesses of Hearts?"
"How do you know that?" Alice asked.
Jason replied "My friend Sora told us about you."
Alice's eyes widen and asked "Sora is here?!"
"Yeah," Jason said, "We came here to…"
All of a sudden, Alice grabbed his arms and said "You have to leave!"
Confused, Jason asked "Why? We are here to get you out of here and keep you safe. There is this emperor who…"
"There is nothing you can save me from," Alice said, "I…I am…broken."
Jason said "What do you mean?"
Alice stood there in silent until she said "My…My Wonderland…it's in ruins."
Wanting to know, Jason asked "What happened?"
Alice sighed sadly and said "The Queen of Hearts. Somehow, she gained powers from the darkness and took over Wonderland. She managed to get to me and wanted me to join her. I refused and she…and she…"
As a few tears ran down her face, Alice said "She…tortured me…destroyed my mind…I've…I've become insane and lost my path. She used…the darkness to me turn me into that…that monster."
As Jason felt bad for her, he then remembered the Cheshire Cat's words and said "The Princess that was full of light has fallen into darkness. The bird that was once in flight has fallen into madness. So that's what that cat meant."
Sentinel then said in his mind "The queen must have used the Darkness to turn Alice into that Banshee. And because of that, Alice has fallen into madness."
"Then we saved Alice then," Jason thought, "One Princess of Heart down."
Sentinel then said "Not exactly. In order for one to be a Princess of Heart, one's heart has to be full of Light. And since the Queen corrupted her heart with Darkness and you balanced it with your Keyblade…"
Now knowing what Sentinel was saying, Jason stood there in disbelief. Alice saw this and asked "Jason…are you okay?"
Jason then looks at Alice and said "I'm…sorry."
"For what?" Alice asked.
Jason replied "You…You are no longer a Princess of Heart."
Confused by this, Alice asked "What do you mean?"
Jason showed Alice his Keyblade and said "My Keyblade…balances Light and Darkness. And since your heart was full of Darkness, I balanced it by adding Light in your heart. Sure there is Light in you, but…"
Alice caught on and said "So…I am no longer a Princess of Heart?"
When Jason nodded, Alice's eyes burned with rage and said "Good."
As Jason raised an eyebrow, Alice raised her right hand and her large knife, this time it was normal, appeared and said "Because I am going to kill that bitch!"
"Whoa!" Jason said in a surprised way, "Did not expect that from you."
"Sorry," Alice said, "But I am burning with rage! And I want her dead! And I know you might disapprove…"
"Are you kidding me?" Jason asked as he switched his weapon to his Victory Rifle, "I want some of that action. Count me in."
Alice raised an eyebrow and asked "You…want to kill the Queen?"
"For torturing you and making you a killer, yeah," Jason said, "Let go and help out Sora and the other."
Alice nodded as she and Jason headed back to the castle.
The battle between the seven Keyblade Wielders and the queens was intense. While Sora, Kairi and Riku fought against the Queen of Hearts; Aqua, Ventus and Terra fought against Sindel. Believing that it will be easy fights, they were wrong. While the Queen of Hearts' attacks were brutal and used…blood…as her attacks, Sindel's attacks were close-combat and brutal.
Sora, Kairi and Riku were standing in front of the Queen of Hearts while the queen was looking at them with rage in her eyes. Gripping her axe, the Queen of Hearts swings her axe and released a wave of blood at them. The Keyblade Wielders got out of the way as the slash of blood sliced the wall behind him. As the three of them were disgusted by this, they quickly got over it and Sora rushed towards the queen. As Sora took a few swings at her, the Queen of Hearts blocks his attacks and deflected his attack. Gritting his teeth, the Queen of Hearts axe started to glow red and savagely swings her axe at Sora. Luckily, Sora blocked her attacks and took a few steps back. Riku then got into the action when he jumps between Sora and the Queen of Hearts and swings his Keyblade at her. However, the Queen of Hearts blocks all of Riku's attack, but she screamed in pain as Kairi appeared behind her. The Queen of Hearts glares back at her and kicks her in the stomach and sends her back.
When Sora went to help Kairi up, the Queen of Hearts looks at her, smirks and said "I am going to enjoy turning her into another champion."
As Riku stood next to Kairi and they all aim their weapons, Sora said "I will never let you have her! Now tell us where Alice is!"
The Queen of Hearts laughed manically and said "You have already met her."
As the three Keyblade Wielders raised an eyebrow, the Queen of Heart said "She is my champion."
When the Queen of Hearts said that, the three of them gasped and Riku said "You…You mean that your champion, the one who is fighting Jason, is Alice?!"
As the Queen of Hearts nodded, Sora yelled in a demanding way "What did you do to her?!"
The Queen of Hearts replied "What I am about to do to you!"
While that happened, Aqua, Terra and Ventus were trying to land a clean hit on Sindel, but the Queen of Outworld proved tough for them. When Ventus charged at her and tried to attack her, Sindel unleashed a powerful sonic scream that sends Ventus flying back. Terra wanted to get a chance to attack as he rushed towards her and swings his Keyblade. But Sindel dodged his attack, got close to Terra and started to deliver powerful punches to his stomach. And with a powerful uppercut, Sindel sends Terra flying back. Now having a chance to attack, Aqua charged at Sindel and swings her Keyblade. But Sindel evaded her attacks and, to Aqua's surprise, Sindel's hair grew, wrapped itself around Aqua's neck and started to strangle her. As Aqua gasped for air, both Terra and Ventus tried to save her, Sindel looks at them and unleashed another powerful sonic scream at them.
Once Terra and Ventus were pushed back, Sindel laughed and said "Try to save her again, I will snap her neck. And I know you don't want that."
When Terra and Ventus, they saw Aqua slowly gasping for air. Before they were about to do something, a loud gunshot was heard and Sindel scream in pain as she held onto her left shoulder. All of a sudden, Jason charged at Sindel with his Victory Rifle in his right hand and his Trench Knife in his left. Once he was close, Jason swings his Trench Knife upwards and cut Sindel's hair and released Aqua from Sindel's grip. Once Aqua was free, she took in some air as Jason aims his sniper rifle at Sindel and said "Leave my master alone, you bitch."
Sindel looks at him, smirks and said "So…you are the one my husband and that old man Xehanort want dead."
Jason raised an eyebrow and said "They want me dead? Jeez, I wonder why."
Sindel smirks and said "And now I will be the one to end it."
As Jason took position, Terra and Ventus helped Aqua up and Terra asked "What happen to that Banshee?"
Jason replied "Let's just say we will get extra help."
Back at Sora and the others, right before the Queen of Hearts was about to attack, a blue blur rushed past Sora, Kairi and Riku and slashed at the Queen of Hearts across her chest. Barely seeing the blur attacking her, the Queen of Hearts managed to evade the blur's attack and took a few steps back. When she looks up, the Queen's eyes widen when she saw Alice standing in front of her. When Sora, Kairi and Riku saw her, Sora raised an eyebrow and asked "Who is that?"
Alice looks back and said "Hello Sora, it's pleasant to see you again."
As Sora raised an eyebrow, the Queen of Hearts said "How…How did you return to normal, you brat?!"
Alice glared at her and said "You…You turned me into a monster! And now you are going to pay for it!"
Alice then switched her weapon, which her knife was called the Vorpal Blade, to her giant pepper grinder, which was called the Pepper Grinder, and started firing it at her. When the Queen of Hearts dodged the bullets, she failed as she took a few hits. The Queen gritted her teeth and shouted "Curse you, Alice! Off with your head!"
When the Queen said her name, Sora, Kairi and Riku were in shocked and Sora cried "That's Alice?!"
Riku then said "I thought she was smaller and had blonde hair?"
When Alice heard them, she huffed and said "Blame the queen. Because of her…I am no longer a Princess of Heart."
They were shocked when Alice heard that. The Queen of Hearts laughed and said "That's right!"
Gripping her Pepper Grinder, Alice shouted "We shall see!"
Meanwhile, Jason had his Keyblade out and swings it at Sindel, but like the other, she evaded his attack. While he attacked Sindel, Aqua and the rest decide to stay aside while Jason fought. As Sindel tried to claw to his face, Jason dodged her attacks and kicks her in the stomach. As Sindel grits in pain, she was about to use her sonic scream until Jason jabs Sindel in the throat with the handle guards of his Keyblade. As Sindel coughed violently, Jason then delivers a powerful left uppercut to her chin and sends her on her back. When she was recovered her injury, Sindel looks at Jason and said in a hoarse tone "Has anyone told you not to hit women?"
Jason pretended to thinking about it and replied "Not really."
When Jason was about to swing his Keyblade downward, Sindel unleashed a sonic scream at him. Though it was a weak one, Sindel managed to send Jason away from her. When Aqua and the others helped him up, Sindel also got up, laughed and said "It is too late."
"Too late?" Ventus asked, "Too late for what?"
The Queen of Hearts cried in pain as she was blasted away from Alice's giant teapot, which was called the Teapot Cannon. When Alice fired another tea blast, she sends the Queen of Hearts to her throne chair. As the Queen of Hearts groan in pain, Alice slowly walks up to her and said "This is for everything you did to me! For Wonderland!"
When Alice was about to fire, Sora stops her and said "Alice! Stop!"
Alice glared at him and shouted "Why?! This bitch ruined me and my world! She will pay for her crimes!"
Kairi stood next to her and said "But Alice, you can't just…"
Alice then looks at her and shouted "Shut up! I am no longer a Princess of Heart! It's because of her I am like this! She will die!"
Just as she was about to kill the Queen of Hearts, the ground and the castle started to shake. Worried, Kairi asked "What's going on now?"
As the Queen of Hearts was getting up, Sindel rushed up to the Queen while Jason, Aqua, Terra and Ventus rushed up with Sora and the others and Jason said "Okay, what is all that shaking?"
Sindel laughed and said "It has begun! The merging has started!"
Confused, the Queen looks at Sindel and asked "What are you talking about?"
Sindel looks at her, smirks and said "You see, when I arrived, I ordered my followers to travel around Wonderland to conquer the land so that my husband can merge Wonderland with Outworld. And now, this world will be his!"
In rage, the Queen of Hearts shouted "You lied! You told me…"
Sindel laughed and said "So true. So now, I will get rid of all loose ends."
In a fast motion, Sindel grabs the Queen of Hearts by the throat, chokes her and picks her up. As the Queen of Hearts struggled and gasped for air, Sindel took a deep breath and unleashed a powerful sonic scream right in the Queen of Hearts' face until, to everyone's horror, the entire head of the Queen exploded into a million pieces.
When Sindel threw the corpse of the Queen of Hearts, everyone stood in silence as Jason said "Okay, I have to admit, that…that was awesome."
All of a sudden, a dozen of Tarkatans appeared and unsheathe their blades. As everyone looks back, Sindel laughed and said "Taking over a world, killing the ruler along with you all and taking a Princess of Heart back, it must be my lucky day!"
As everyone drew their weapons, Jason said "We have to retreat. We are outnumbered here."
Alice then said "What about Wonderland? My home?"
Everyone stood there in silence and Sora said "I…I don't know…"
As the Tarkatans were closer, Jason groan in frustration and shouted "Fuck this!"
Pressing the button on his Pipboy, Jason summoned a small blue device, looks at Sindel and said "Make no mistake Sindel."
He then grabbed Alice around her waist and said "This. Is. Not. Over!"
When he pressed the button, everyone was teleported back to the Divinity. Before they arrived at Wonderland, the seven Keyblade Wielders each had a small device that will allow them to return to the Gummi Ship. And since Alice did not have one, Jason had to hold onto her in order for her to enter the Gummi Ship. Once they all returned to the ship, Alice broke free from Jason's grip and shouted "Why did you do that?!"
When she rushed to the window, Alice's eyes widen in horror as she witnessed Wonderland, HER Wonderland, disappearing in a burst of flames. Everyone witnessed this and they were all in shock. They lost. They failed to save Wonderland. And now Wonderland is part of Outworld. Seeing her Wonderland gone, tears ran down Alice's face and said "No…it's…it's gone."
Carefully placing his hand on Alice's shoulder, Sora said "Alice…I'm sorry."
Alice grips her hands until they turned white, turns to Jason and shouted "Why did you save me?! I am no longer a Princess of Heart! You should have left me so that I could have saved Wonderland!"
Jason looks at her and replied "Because, I wouldn't be a hero if I didn't saved you. Plus, you saw what happened, did you?"
Alice nodded as Jason said "That will happen to every world out there if we don't do something."
As Alice gritted her teeth and looks away, everyone felt terrible and awful. During their travels, they manage to save worlds from falling into the Darkness. But now? They feel like they failed their mission. They witnessed how strong their enemy is and what will happen if they fail. Breaking the silence, Jason said "I know this is hard for all of us, but we cannot let this lose affect us."
When everyone looks at him, Jason said "It's terrible that we lost Wonderland, but that doesn't mean it is truly gone for good."
As they all raised their eyebrows, Jason then said "If we do defeat Shao Kahn, then maybe we can restore Wonderland along with other worlds Shao Kahn took over. So don't give up hope just yet. We can still do this, we just gotta have faith."
Feeling a bit better, Kairi said "Jason's right. We cannot let other worlds suffer the same fate at Wonderland."
"Yeah!" Sora said.
When everyone agreed, Jason looks at Alice and said "Alice, I know you're anger right now. I know what it feels like to have your home taken from you. But there is a chance to get Wonderland back. Now, if you want somewhere to stay, we will make sure you have a place for you to stay back at Radiant Garden. But if you want to take Wonderland back, if you want to take on the people who robbed your world, then you are more than welcome to come with us."
As everyone looked at Alice for an answer, she looks at him dead in the eyes and said "I want my revenge. And since that woman killed the Queen of Hearts and is responsible for taking over Wonderland, I want her head on a silver platter."
Everyone, except for Jason, was taken back by her choice of words. Why was Alice hostile? Sora and Riku didn't remember her being this aggressive, maybe it was the effects from the Queen of Hearts. Ventus then said "Hold up, if Alice was a Princess of Heart, what now?"
Everyone thought about it and Terra said "From what we know, there are 7 Princesses of Hearts. And now that Alice is no longer one, there are 6 now."
All of a sudden, a voice said "Not exactly."
Hearing the voice, everyone looks around and saw the Cheshire Cat sitting on one of the seats. Jason then yelled "Seriously?! Out of everything that was in Wonderland, the damn cat had to survive?!"
Ignoring him, Alice looks at the Cheshire Cat and asked "How did you survive?"
Cheshire Cat replied "I am cunning and crafty as you think, Alice. It is good to see you again."
Aqua then said "What do you mean before?"
The Cheshire Cat grinned more and said "I mean, even though Alice was a Princess of Heart, just like everything, she is…replaceable."
"Replaceable?" Riku asked.
The Cheshire Cat nodded and said "You believe that the Seven Princesses of Hearts are the only ones with hearts full of lights? There are others out there. And now that Alice is no longer one, another has to fill in the spot."
"So," Terra said, "It could be anyone?"
The Cheshire Cat then said "Not really."
"God damnit!" Jason shouted, "Just tell us!"
"Nah ah ah," Cheshire Cat said, "That would be too easy for you all. But know this: the seventh princess lost her path to light a long time again. But very soon, she will find her path once again and resume the title of Princess of Heart. Until then, be on your guard."
And just like that, the Cheshire Cat vanished into thin air. Once the cat was gone, Alice looks at everyone and asked "What now then? Shall we go somewhere?"
Sora walked up to the controls and replied "The next world won't be for another 12 hours. I saw we rest until then. We really got handled."
Jason huffed and said "Easy for you to say."
After he said that, he headed to his room. Everyone just sighed and went to their own rooms while Alice stared out the window and thought "I will have my revenge. I will avenge Wonderland."
Outworld…
Sindel was walking towards the throne room where she saw Shao Kahn sitting on his throne chair. Once she was there, Sindel said "Great news, my emperor. I have conquered another world for you. A world called Wonderland."
Just then, Xehanort appeared and asked "That is where one of the Princesses of Hearts resigned in. Did you obtain her?"
Sindel shook her head and replied "Unfortunately no. The Queen of Hearts corrupted the girl's heart and turned her into a monster. But then she returned to her human self and left with the Keyblade fools."
Xehanort stroke his beard and said "If she returned to normal, my guess is that the boy with the Kingdom Sword Keyblade returned her to normal. But by doing so, he balanced her heart with both light and darkness. So…she is no longer of any use."
Shao Kahn turns to him and said "Now what? We are one princess short."
"Not entirely," Xehanort said, "When one Princess of Heart is lost or no longer useful, a replacement is selected. There will always be Seven Princesses or Hearts."
Shao Kahn then asked "Then who is the seventh then?"
"I don't know," Xehanort said, "For now, let us focus on obtaining the rest of the Princesses of Hearts. Soon, we will have the X-Blade and Kingdom Hearts will be ours!"
Once he said that, everyone let out a maniac laugh that filled the throne room.
How do you all like this chapter? Now, there are things I want to go over before the chapter ends:
First, the Banshee being Alice. I thought it was a cool idea for Alice to be a semi-bad guy here. That Banshee form was inspired by me when I saw the Alice Madness Returns game and saw Alice enter her 'Hysteria Form' and thought that would be awesome if Alice was like that. And in regards for her appearance in this chapter, I am basing her off of the Alice Madness Returns version instead of the Disney version.
Now, as for Alice no longer being a Princess of Heart, let me explain. In order for one to become a Princess of Heart, their heart needs to be pure light, untouched by Darkness. And because the Queen of Hearts infected Alice's heart with Darkness and Jason using his Keyblade on her, she no longer bared the title of Princess of Heart. And because of this, Alice became more aggressive and uses the weapons she has now. Which are the weapons from the Alice Madness Returns game.
And yes people, Wonderland is gone and is now one with Outworld. The reason I did that is not only to allow the Keyblade Wielders to experaince the loss of a world and what would happened if Shao Kahn succeeded in invading a world, but also…let Alice join Sora and the rest! If Wonderland was saved, Alice would have stayed to fix it. But ever since I saw the Alice Madness Returns game, I wanted her to fight alongside with the others using her cool weapons! And for her Banshee/Hysteria Form, well…let's just say that won't be the last time we will see the Banshee.
And as for Alice no longer being a Princess of Heart, instead of six, there will always be seven. And now that Alice is out of the way, another princess will take her place. Who is it? Well ladies and gentlemen, I present to you all a challenge! The first one to guess who the Seventh Princess of Heart is will not only get a shoutout in a chapter but also a virtual cookie. Here is your one clue: it is someone in this story. Lame I know, but it's general, so it can be anyone. Good luck!
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter and see you all next time. Until then, please review!