Mia: ...I'M BACK! CAN I GET A WOOT?! OR NOT. IT'S REALLY UP TO YOU.

Just so you know, I did pretty well on my science fair I've been mentioning before. And YES it's been a LONG month for me (and probably for everyone). My life basically is: Work. Eat. Work. Sleep. Write for No Reason. Work. Sleep. Eat. And so on.

I know, Elena's gone. Tear. Well get it over with! Elena would occasionally be mentioned throughout the book, but it'll be revealed of the purpose of her existence a long while from now. ;)

I really appreciate you people that took the time to read and review this story! I really hate some parts and want to rewrite it, but...yeah, no one has the time. :P

I should say this now, but I don't have any of the games and this story is based off of the manga. ALSO! THINGS GET COMPLICATED NOW, SO EMBRACE YOURSELF!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: I reread HnKnA manga and the CnKnA Bloody Twins along with the Cheshire Cat Waltz and realized that the twins speak IN SLANG. WUT~ So yeah I'm going to add dat SLANG~!

Oh, and btw...I'm still crying over something. It's been resolved NOW, but uh...if you're a masochist (like me) go check out supersushicupcake's HNKNA series called 'Conflicted!' and 'Struggle!' if you haven't. It's HILARIOUS, but...well, you'll see why I'm crying when you read it, so...yeah I encourage you readers because you're awesome and Alex will be awesome in this story but not as well-executed as how the original owner used Alex. And something with cake.

I babble. Sorry. So yeah. Enjoy my crap.

Chapter Fourteen

Clover Assembly

Jackie's POV

"I have a question!" Alex raised his hand up as Blood took his precious time to reexplain why they gathered up in the Clover Tower for an assembly. "Why are you wearing a fat coat?"

His eyes were so serious that I had to laugh. From the corner of Blood's eye, he saw me stifle my laugh, a corner of his mouth pointing down. I tried not to, but hey I can't help it. Albert gave me a look that said 'Mafia boss, don't laugh,' him wearing a deadpanned expression on how stupid Alex's question was.

Blood sighed. "Alex, must I explain April Season?" he questioned with an arched brow as he tightened his grip on his cane. I honestly admire his huge top hat...well, more like the decorations. But they're kinda distracting.

"Nah, I just want to know—wait, there's a season for April!? NO WAY!" He bounced up and down, excited all of a sudden. Boy, does he have orgasm. "Ooh, tell me! I must know. I MUST!"

On the corner of my unblind eye, I saw Elliot tiredly smile. For some reason, my heart winced at this. Why do I like that smile? It's just your mouth curling upwards...I'm so weird. Shut up.

And...I'm talking to myself. Not weird at all, ah~

"Alex, it's just a time in Wonderland where all four seasons collide together in one country," Elliot said with a small laugh. It sounds so deep and hearty...wow.

"Nightmare explained this all to us when we first came here, remember?" Albert asked. Blood watched the two converse.

"I forgot, okay?"

"I should've guessed."

"What does that suppose to mean?"

Blood and I wore the same expression—bored. We witnessed the pointless conversation until it died down, and I finally spoke up. "So I'm guessing that the Clover Tower is winter. That's not healthy for Nightmare, 'cause he's always sick you know."

Elliot nodded. "I'd care less though," he added with a shrug. "His sickness is his problem, though I would pity Gray. It's not his problem, but he ends up being his mother."

I cocked my head. Gray...I haven't met the guy yet. I really wonder who this person is...meh~ "Can foreigners come?"

The twins perked up...and they were in adult forms at the time. "Yeah!" they exclaimed in unison. "It's really really borin' though...but lady, you gotta come!"

Kids. They get bored easily, and it's difficult to entertain them at these boy's age. I sighed, raking a hand in my obsidian hair and sweeping my apple red bangs aside. I glanced at Blood who rose his brows in wonder what I'll say in reply. Elliot showed a look of debating if I should go or not. Aw, the guy's so adorable sometimes. Cute~

Eventually, I shrugged. "I don't mind." Little did I know that that answer I just said triggered things. Before I knew it, the twins shove me into a spine-crushing hug (Mia: Almost compared to Peter's!), while Elliot requested a simple dress for me from a nearby maid.

HALT. DRESS.

THAT IS A NO-NO.

I shot a disapproving glare over to Elliot's side. "I don't do dresses," I sternly growled.

"But it's kind of formal though..." Elliot trailed off, his face looking contradictory once again. Maybe I should stop being so mean and picky now, sheesh. I have a roof, they're offering me clothes and food, and all of this is for no payment in return.

Dang. I need to do something in return.

And this is what I'm going to do.

I groaned, deflated. "Fine. But I'm taking it off once I get back." It was the least I cou— "GUWAH!"

The kids. Freaking. GLOMPED. On me. Like jell-O. AND I HATE IT.

Biting my lip, I evened out my hot headed tendencies, as my irritation died down. As Elliot pulled them off of me (thanks to him by the way), I stood up and dusted my jeans. "Hey...is, uh, Gowland coming?" I know how much Blood is amused by Gowland's first name, but I still should show some decent respect even if that poor old man isn't around.

Maybe I should start with not calling him old man. Even though it's in my head. It's mean.

Aaaand I'm thinking to myself. AGAIN.

"Mary? ...Yes," was Blood's answer.

"Are you gonna let him live?"

"What about your civil war with queen Vivaldi?" Albert asked.

"Those problems between this territory and others would be at a truce during the meeting," Elliot explained. "It's part of the rules." I nodded in understanding.

"Wah~ Why do you people have SO many rules?!" Alex whined. "It's so hard to keep up with all of them, I'm gonna forget~"

"Now now, Alex," Blood chided, "you're the only one that's the forgetful one. The rest of us know. Right, foreigner dears?"

Albert nodded. Honestly, it's also hard to remember all of those rules on my part, so I gave a 'meh' with my hands.

"Heyyyy nee-san," Dee clung to my arm, "are you gonna wear your dress now?"

"We ain't mindin' if you change right here and now," Dum 'innocently' said. DUDES, I know you're not just kids. YOU ARE MONSTERS, so...

"NO."

"Aw~"

Dia's POV

"Hey! Boris, what'cha doing?"

Boris looked over with a guilty face. "Um...fixing Dia's hair! Yeah, that's it..."

"Why do you look guilty then?" Squishy asked. Boris flinched. Please, please, please...I pray to GOD PLEASE let me believe that Boris is amazing at hairstyling.

"Well..." Boris, defeated, took off the foil from my hair.

"...oh...my...YOW! You're dead meat dude!" Squishy howled.

I stood up in alarm. "What?! What?! D-Does it look that bad?!"

"Uh, no!" exclaimed Boris. "It's just a bit, uh, different, that's all! But you're rocking it!"

"You look like Nightmare's sister or something," Squishy bluntly said. Well, I would normally be really mad right now, but at least someone's telling the truth. She handed me a mirror, and...

...

...

MY HAIR WAS GRAY. With my ugly gray eyes...I LOOK LIKE A GRANDMA! "...sniff..."

"G-Gah! Dia, I'm sorry!" apologized a frantic cat, hugging me. "It's not that bad, really! It actually looks really good on you!"

"B-B-But...my hair is gray~ WAH~"

"No, it's not! See?!" Boris showed me the bottle. "It says here that it's golden..." He peeled off the cover, "see?! SILVER! This is fool's gold! I must've mixed the prank store stuff with the actual stuff, aha..." He rubbed his neck sheepishly. "I'm really sorry Dia..."

Squishy was tapping her foot. "Can we please stop this 'family reunion' stuff? It's starting to gross me out."

"A-Ah...yes! I'll be going now, and Boris?"

"Yeah?"

"I need a refund."

Boris frowned whining and mumbling, as he pulled out my money. I smiled. "Thank you."

"..."

Juliet's POV

"Honestly...this is sooooo boring~!" Onix kept whining to her heart's content, me trying to calm her down.

"Look, it's part of the rules Onix, so we can't do anything about it besides attending the Clover Assembly," I groaned. "Don't you even think about me thinking that this part is fun."

"And it's soooo cold..."

"Then get some hot cocoa."

"Aw~ But Julie-nee-san, I can't! I've tried already, but the cabinets with the packets are too high!" she whined. "The lower ones are coffee ones..."

"Then use a lot of cream to make it sweet or something."

"But I don't know how to operate the coffee machine thingy!"

"Then make one without the machine."

"...how long does that take?"

"I don't know. I don't drink coffee."

"Julie-san~!"

I sighed, closing my book. "Look, if you put your mind to it, you can do anything," I said with such inspiring words. That was sarcasm. "If you believe that you could grow taller, or if you eat the right side of the mushroom, you could reach a bird's nest with a bird that'll think that you're going to eat her eggs."

"What?"

"I'm not helping you."

"Then just say that instead of whatever you said before with the bird and me eating her eggs or something!"

"You really just hear the last things I say, do you?"

"Well, the rest you say are like, super boring, so...yeah."

"ARGH." I started walking away. Onix kept following me, to my utter annoyance. After a long while, I started heading towards Erin's room. "Erin!"

Erin looked at the two of us. "I'm assuming you need my help?"

"Yeah," I said. To make torture to the girl that eats up my brain, I told her, "Onix wants to make a game. She's going to guess what color your hair is."

"Excuse me?"

"Your hair," I repeated.

"What? I didn't say that!" Onix yelled in defiance. "Besides, that's too easy! It's black!"

Erin blinked, shaking her head. "It's not," she denied.

"It isn't?" I asked. I myself am kind of surprised.

"No."

"But it looks black!" Onix exclaimed.

"Just because something appears to be one thing, doesn't mean it cannot be completely the opposite," said Erin.

"So you're saying that your hair is white?" asked Onix. I stifled a laugh, earning a glare.

"Um...so is it...really really dark blonde?"

"It is NOT."

"It's pink! Like mine!" suggested Onix, pointing to her head.

"Definitely incorrect. It is natural."

I tapped my chin. This game was actually pretty fun. "Is it obsidian?"

Erin made a contorted face. "Obsidian is black."

"But obsidian is a glossy black." Erin shook her head, despite my amazing compliment.

Onix thought really hard. Eventually she jumped. "It's brown!"

Why didn't I think of that? "A dark brown," I added.

Erin looked at the two of us, commenting, "I didn't think it was possible for the two of you to take up so much time on figuring out the color of my hair, which is completely irrelevant and will not benefit your life and knowledge whatsoever."

I shrugged. "It was fun though."

"Unfortunately, the world doesn't revolve around fun. The world today is unfair. You just have to make the best of what's in front of us."

"But this is WONDERLAND!" contradicted Onix. "This isn't reality! For all we know, this could be a dream~! We could do whatever, whenever!"

"Sorry Onix, but I don't think so," I said. "Erin is right. Around us are people who can practically turn anything into weapons. We as foreigners are defenseless, depending on the Role Holders to protect us. We had fun Onix, but that doesn't last forever you know."

Onix frowned. "But...if you make a smile, I'll...make you hot chocolate." I sounded really grumpy at that.

She instantly lit up. "YAY!" she exclaimed, giving me a hug.

"Hey, Julie-nee-san?"

"Hm?"

"I just wanna say something...can you keep a secret?"

"No."

"Well I'm gonna tell you anyway," huffed Onix. Honestly that girl. "The other day, while I was really frustrated that I couldn't get something really high, I turned into something."

"And that is?" I boredly asked.

"A CAT! A really big, teenage cat with cat ears and a tail and everything!"

"So...you dragged me here only to tell me that you can reach the hot cocoa cabinets?" I deadpanned.

"I knew you wouldn't believe me! So I'll show you here and now!" Onix then closed her eyes shut, clenching her fists. "Mmm..."

POOF!

"...WHAT THE?!"

Okay...so then I saw Onix, who was now my height, had curves, an (actually pretty cute) outfit, waist-length pink locks of hair, fluffy pink cat ears on her ears, and a tail. "What kind of illusion did you put up, Onix? Or are you hired by that little rat?"

"It's a CAT! And I'm Onix!" she yelled. "See? Now I look like Boris!"

Suddenly, someone walked into the room. "I keep telling you, if you refuse to get up from your chair, you feet would eventually fall asleep..."

On the doorway was Erin and a peeved Julius, his face looking at Erin's shocked ones, as he followed her gaze and it landed on us. "...Onix?"

"Hallo!"

Julius blinked. "Gray...he, he told me about two foreigners..."

"Two what?"

"Two...ahem. According to the prophecy about the thirteen foreigners, two of them have the ability or abilities of two Role Holders. If that is you Onix, we have found one of them. And it seems like you have the bloody twins' ability to age and reverse, and the cheshire cat's ability to appear as part cat and human."

"So...Onix can turn older? And have cat appendages?" I asked in disbelief.

"...We...we need to check her heart," said Julius.

"Why is that?" questioned Erin.

"Because..." Julius blushed slightly as he laid a hand on Onix's overgrown chest. "...I knew it."

"What? What?! Am I okay?!" Onix placed a hand on her chest, as she screamed.

"Onix!"

"My heart! I-It's! It's..."

Tick Tock Tick Tock

"W-What's happening?!" Onix frantically demanded.

"Don't worry, it only happens in this form," Julius assured us. "However, this means that you're part Wonderlandian. It only accesses in this land, meaning that you were either born here or in your world, one of your parents being from here. Do you know your parents?"

Onix ran silent. "...I was adopted."

Julius bit his lip. "I apologize for my rudeness. So you don't know who your mother nor father is?"

"...No."

"That may be a problem, but we can set that aside," said Julius. "But according to what Gray said, the one closest to the first one that'll appear would be the second Wonderlandian foreigner. Revealing it to be Onix as the first one, the second must be..."

Erin nodded. "It is Juliet Morris."

I shook my head. "Nope. That can't be right. I'm really normal, I don't have her abilities." I pointed to Onix. "Onix has the abilities. Maybe Erin is the one."

"It cannot be though," Erin said. "I am not as close to her than you are. She is with you constantly."

"I must agree," Julius sighed, turning to me. "Juliet, it's in you. Admit that you're a Wonderlandian foreigner. A mix of two. If you accept that part of you, your abilities would unlock."

I took a deep breath. "If this stuff is all true, I'll try it. Only for this once, I'll believe in this $."

And so, I closed my eyes. For some reason, I felt light. Nothing disturbed me.

I could get used to this...

SNAP!

"Shoot, what happened?" I shot back to reality. My navy hair was tied up in a high ponytail from what I felt was a ribbon. I blinked, seeing the other three staring at me.

"It seems like she has received...the ability to...I don't know."

"What? You don't know Julius?"

"Um...no."

This will be difficult, Julius thought.

HOLD ON. Did I just...? "I think I just read your mind or something, because your lips didn't move," I said to Julius.

His head shot up. "What am I thinking about?"

Foreigners are annoying.

"Well that hurts a bit," I grunted.

Julius blinked. "So something did happen. You barely changed, but can you somehow look into that bag of yours you just had?"

"Ooh, what's in it?" Onix asked excitedly as I pulled out a small dagger and several broken clocks.

Julius stared at me in horror. "What?"

"You have the incubus' power to read minds," he explained, "and...the Knight of Heart's clock-collecting ability. And my ability perhaps to fix them as well. What do you see in those clocks?"

I stared at one of them. "I see...a faceless man, a dagger in his chest, and he collapsed into a clock...and now numbers." I clutched my chest, and heard the sound of a clock in it. No...so I'm really the second one?

Erin blinked. "Repeat that for us?"

"Numbers. A bunch of them," I added. "They make up some sort of tool and place to put them...I think it's telling me to fix it."

"Yes, you are the second one for sure," Julius confirmed. "And one more thing. Onix, it seems like you resemble Boris the most, whilst Juliet is most like me."

I gave them a bored look before laughing. "Yeah right."

At Clover Assembly

Jackie ended up not going because it turned out that Blood needed two people to watch one idiot. By 'idiot,' Mia (I) meant Alex.

Then again, it's bound for Alex to make the mansion's kitchen set on fire. And blow up a staircase. And make the rose garden a bird poop target.

But hey, Blood is a merciful man...or let's just hope that Alex gets to live at least.

All of the Role Holders gathered around in a court-like room in the Clover Tower, the faceless on the corners of the room. "We're here to discuss about," Gray looked at his papers and frowned. "Excuse me for a minute, for Nightmare seems to have crossed out some things in this paper..."

But 'some things,' Nightmare crossed out pretty much everything. And replaced it with his lovely handwriting that said, 'Foreigner Prophecies.'

Good luck Gray. You're gonna need it.

"...Ahem. We will now speak about...the foreigner prophecy."

Everyone, and I mean everyone twitched. "Is this some joke?" asked a 'sweet' White. "Because it is certainly not funny. And I know funny. I am Joker."

"So am I!" Black angrily yelled. "We ain't doing that $! Find something else to talk about!"

The faceless murmured in confusion, for they only knew that there was such a prophecy. Even the existence of that prophecy was a legend. Though they didn't know the content.

"Ooh, brother, this is gonna be good now!" Dun exclaimed.

"Yeah!" agreed Dee.

"I don't wanna talk about that book right now," Elliot mumbled.

"Attention!" Gray shouted in the crowd. "I know this topic would bring either an uproar or many realizations, but it must be done. So, let's start with the first one to read it. Nightmare, if you please."

Most of the attention faced Nightmare. "Ahem, mine was merely an introduction of the foreigners. Where they'll stay, a bit of romance here and there, but they have all come true already. Dia Peridot, Kat Battistelli, and Lucian Caelum are all in the Heart Castle territory. Albert Tudor, Alexander Liddell, and Jackie Penski are in the Hatter Mansion. Lucielle Rivers, Katherine Glass, Scarlett Rose, and Yoru Fuluba are in the Amusement Park territory, while the rest, which are Juliet Morris, Onix Irene, and Erin Oswald are in the Clock and Clover Tower."

"Julius was the next to read," announced Gray.

"Aw, I thought that this would be fun," complained Dee.

"Yeah brother, now I wanna see lady," mumbled Dum. "This is boring."

Julius frowned. "The beginning of my poem of the game reveals that the foreigners won't leave," he started. "There's a woman who's hiding her gender, therefore might be cross-dressing as a boy."

"Does it give a clue, like where she lives?" asked Gowland.

"No," was Julius' blunt reply. "There are two foreigners that it says 'has relation.' I think it means that they're either related to each other or related to..."

"I see," said Nightmare. "One of us."

"And if that's true, I believe I know," said Julius. "It would be in my territory, Onix and Juliet."

The bloody twins, heaing Onix, perked up. "Hah? Really?!"

"Onix is most like Boris, her whiny yet needy personality being of a cat's," Julius explained. "Today, she also transformed to her Wonderlandian self, which brings us to Gray's readings he explained to me."

"That's right," Gray said, "in my end of the prophecy, I read that the two of the thirteen foreigners would have several abilities of us. So you know?"

"I do," confirmed Julius. "Onix had cat appendages, along with age growth, revealing that she has Boris' cat parts and the twins' age ability."

"What about Juliet?" Ace asked.

"Juliet has first shown signs of Nightmare's mind-reading abilities," said Julius. "Then, she actually has shown Ace's...never mind."

"My what?! What?!" Ace exclaimed. "My erection?! SHE'S A BOY?!"

"W-W-What?!" Peter had grown red.

"Knave, We command you to shut your filthy mouth!" demanded a blushing Queen of Hearts.

Ace shrugged. "Mkay."

"And lastly, she has shown that she could see the life before death in a broken clock, and numbers guiding her to fix the clock back to life," finished the mortician.

"So she's a hermit, like you!" Ace laughed. "She even looks like you! She could be your long lost sister or something! Or your daughter! Hm, who's the mommy? I could be the mommy!"

"Didn't We say that you must SHUT UP?!" Vivaldi screeched.

"Oops. Just kinda came out~"

"Is that all your part had said?" Boris asked.

"No," Julius replied simply. "I think it also said something about hearts and clocks colliding and a foreigner would carry it inside..." He blushed.

"Thinking dirty things?" crooned Blood. Julius looked away. "It must seem that you're thinking of it as...an expectant foreigner."

"W-What does that mean?" asked DUN DUN DUN! The appearance of PIERCE VILLIERS!

"You were here the entire time?" Boris asked, causing a flinch.

"C-C-Cat..."

"Anyway, for the innocent ones of the generation," Blood continued, "an expectant foreigner is when a Role Holder and a foreigner get together and—"

Elliot interrupted reluctantly, "Get the woman pregnant! That's all!"

Blood looked at Elliot. "If you put it simply, yes, a man makes a woman pregnant, making them expectant mothers."

"Anything else?" Gowland asked towards Julius.

"All of the foreigners would fall for all of us. And they won't leave. And like us, they will love out of their will."

"Well that's just # great," mumbled Black Joker. "I'm gonna be all lovey dovey and so will my # lover."

"Okay, who's next?" White nervously laughed. "I apologize about Joker's behavior."

"It seems like it's me then," Blood said aloud with a smirk. "While Julius said that he didn't know who the crossdressing foreigner was, I do."

"Heh? Really?" Boris asked.

"I doubt that dumb Hatter does," Gowland grunted.

"Well I do," Blood curtly snapped back. "It showed a secret message as to who it was. It said that my lover was a boy but I wasn't gay."

"Cough yes you are cough," Gowland coughed out.

With a glare and a cracked smile, Blood continued. "So, that being contradictory, there was a secret message if you looked closely, or if I did. And it said, 'IT IS ALEX.' Alex being my lover—"

"Pfft..." Ace couldn't help it. "What the! That's so funny, you two are so not compatible, like at all! I mean, you're stupid, and Alex is stupider—or maybe you two are good for each other, since both of you are stupid, haha~!"

"And everyone wonders if you have a brain," Peter mumbled. "I'd rather drown myself in a drain."

"Like I said before I was so rudely interrupted," said Blood, "Alex is a girl."

"That makes sense," said a blunt Boris.

"Huh? You're not going to go all cuckoo?" Elliot exclaimed. "Anyone?! I mean, Alex looked like a complete boy, and now we found out that he was a girl, big whoop. Well NOT big whoop! It's big WHOA!"

"Chill, stupid hare!" the twins scolded him in unison.

"NEXT!" yelled Gray over the crowd, writing down what info he had gathered.

"Um..." Elliot twiddled with his fingers. "Can you skip me? I can go after someone else...or I could be last...my prophecy's nothing really—"

"It's your turn!" the twins yelled. "Spill!"

"I got it! Sheesh! Okay, here goes. One of the seventeen-year-old foreigners is in love with me. And honestly, it's really creepy. And also the Hatter Mansion would be burned down by them."

Blood twitched. "Repeat that?"

"The Mansion. It'll be burned down. Like arson."

"By whom? Who is 'them'?"

"Uh...I don't know," Elliot shrugged. "The foreigners? Alex, most likely?"

"Continue." Blood's blood-curdling command awakened Elliot in a jolt.

"Um! The twins would fall in love with the youngest foreigner, and I think Albert knows a dark secret of mine!" Elliot burst out.

"Heh, what's the secret?" Black asked.

"The h* am I telling you!"

"Halt!" Nightmare yelled. "The twins will fall in love with the youngest, meaning Onix?"

Dee flipped. Dum collapsed. "WHAT?!"

"Well it does make sense," said Julius. "They are friends with that cat Boris, and she can grow to be older instantly and at the same time reverse the process."

Boris made a face. "The twins are gonna love...pfft..." He started chuckling, turning around to hide it. But it wasn't hidden.

"Hey! Don't laugh kitty!" the twins tried to order.

"Nah, not gonna happen...haha~"

"I also shot the book," Elliot confessed while ignoring the three bickering role holders.

"After I said not to?" Blood asked with a smirk.

"Sorry Blood. I hated the thing."

"But it would mend back together!" exclaimed a cross Vivaldi. "We agree with the hare. That book is a nuisance to all and should be burned on a stake! If it had a head, We would chop it even if it'll take Our entire lifetime!"

"Uh, who's next?" asked Nightmare.

"The twins," Elliot pronounced as he shoved the twins forward.

"HEY!"

"It's your dang turn, so deal with it!"

The twins exchanged glances. Dee shrugged, Dum shook his head. They were having a mental conversation. And it was as if Nightmare knew what they were saying. "Fine," said Dee as he turned to the others. "We heard music from the book. And the foreigners are gonna change the rules, addin' some crud like freedom an' makin' it a new game an' stuff."

"Yea," agreed Dum. "The 'Wonderland Phase' an' stuff."

"That's it?" asked Peter. "What a pile of $." A pile of money? Lol, just kidding.

"A new Wonderland Phase?" asked Gray. "The foreigners will change the rules?"

"Does that mean that we will change?!" asked an excited Ace. "WOOT WOOT~!"

Peter groaned. "If it means that we could somehow bring...never mind." Poor Peter, thinking bout Alice coming back as her younger self once again. Well...TOO BAD. SUCK IT UP MAN.

"It is our turn now," announced Vivaldi. "Wonderland territories will work together from now on. And of our deepest secrets to be revealed in the most unexpected ways. We shall from now on not hide a thing from each other."

"It's hard to tell now whether you're talking about all of us our just you," commented Ace.

"We speak for all!"

"Ohhhh...Whelp, means puppy, it said that I could get a heart if I showed my true colors and make my destined lover in love with moi! And I won't have a role anymore, making me as free as a bird! Sagittarius FOREVER!"

"You're a Sagittarius?" asked Gowland.

"Yup!"

"We're getting off-topic," pointed out an annoyed Julius, "and it's impossible to get a heart. Perhaps that was the Dealer's riddles, meaning that you won't be considered a Role Holder anymore and will be free like a foreigner. Yet you will still have a clock but you're free from the rules."

"LUCKY!" yelled Black. "Can we switch?!"

"No way!" Ace chortled. "I love this! YAY! Sorry for cutting you up into a kabob bookie~!"

"I read about the history of the foreigners..."

Everyone stiffly turned to Peter. "You what?" inquired Gray.

"I read about the foreigners," the albino bunny repeated crossly. "But all of their pasts were sad. Most of them grew up alone."

"Except for?" asked Nightmare, knowing where this was going.

"Kat."

Boris blinked. "Hey, according to my part, it said something about one of them really not belonging here, and basically the oddball," he said, "but they all are oddballs really."

"Kat's life was normal and frankly happy," said Peter sadly, his ears drooping. "She had a family that loved her and cared for her, and a complete ordinary life. Scarlett would be the second to happiest, but she experienced her father's death. Alex had unintentionally murdered someone. Erin's parents were abusive. Lucian's parents were such a mystery to her. The others never really had a connection to their family. But Kat could've lived happily...if it wasn't for me sadly."

"Hey, you rhymed thrice!" Ace exclaimed.

Totally ruined the moment.

"And Sid."

"What?" Nightmare questioned.

"Kat has met a Diamond."

"You mean...Sidney Black?!" asked Elliot in complete and utter shock. The rest felt the same.

Pierce has no idea what's going on btw. Haha.

"Yes, Sidney Black, who is considered Kat's best friend," said Peter while adjusting his glasses. "He was similar to me with Alice, except that he revealed himself to her and spent his time with her."

"Oh?" uttered Blood. "So you two are more similar in the stalking ways. Interesting~"

"Um, I think you guys should know this too," Boris said loudly. "Uh, one of the girls has half a clock and heart I think. It says something about being born from two Role Holders but uh, was born in the other world. And that she was childhood friends with Joker."

Black was drinking water while listening to this, and so he choked and started coughing. "What?"

"This girl—"

"I #ing know what you said, #it!" Black barked. "But that's!" He glanced nervously at White, who merely laughed.

"That's our dear precious Lucian, right Joker?"

"Y-You clown! Lucian's here?!"

"Aha, yeah!" Ace exclaimed. "She's hot by the way~"

Cue almost nosebleed.

"This! This isn't funny!" Black growled.

"What the knave said is true," Vivaldi said. "Our Lucian is currently staying at Our castle."

White glanced at Black. "If we may have permission from you, may Lucian stay with us?"

Nightmare coughed. "Lucian can speak with you, but she cannot stay at your place," he said. "The prophecy's strict."

"What about you, Gowland?" asked Gray. "Have you found anything?"

"Um..." Gowland was silent.

Everyone turned.

And waited.

"Mine...was coded."

"By that you mean?" asked Gray.

"I have no idea what it meant!"

"So...you can't read?" asked Elliot.

"I can read just fine!" snapped Gowland. "But it's all just gibberish!"

"You can't read, can you Mary?" Blood serenaded. Gowland was close to bringing up his rifle.

"I CAN!" he yelled hotly. "I just...if I write down on a paper exactly what I read, you couldn't read it either! It's like a crossword puzzle, but there's no word bank!"

Nightmare understood that Gowland was only speaking the truth. "Gowland, we will speak of the matter privately before we publicly address this to the others."

The timer beeped. "The assembly is over," announced Gray. "Until the next time."

Mythia: ASDFGHJKL -_-" I got Gowland gibberish...sorry man.

Gowland: You're expecting me to read that, didn't you?!

Mythia: Ehhh...not really. It'll come to important play later on. Promise.

Gowland: Grr...fine. Please review sweet peas...

Mythia: Aw~ You're so adorable sometimes. Even though you're like, twice as old as me.

Gowland: Don't say that! Makes me feel old!

Mia: It's not like what I said was a lie. In fact it was the truth. Ah ha...