EDITED/ REWRITE: 13/7/2019
Note: This chapter is dedicated to the author of the Wattpad story Dare to Love You, Vocahunter.
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Chapter/ Part 38: Welcome to Wonderland
In a garden of red rose bushes of some maze, sitting on chairs with a long, white table holding small and beautiful cakes with five cups of brown tea, the people who are present in this new, unfamiliar yet bizarre world are just so happens to be Ultimecia, Madeline de Autriche, Austin Trance, and Shinsuke Khalifa, who would pour more brown tea to anyone whenever they requested, although Khalifa is the only one having hot chocolate instead. Other than that, Tengu and Marluxia are happening to be absent.
"So Your Majesty, what's your next part of the plan here? Say the word, and I'll shoot them down!" Austin exclaimed with a proud grin and confidence in his voice to the red – haired queen beside his right, pulling out his twin guns from his pockets in the process to attract Madeline's attention when she finished sipping her tea in a calm pace. Leaving herself out of Khalifa and Ultimecia's conversation, possibly about the former's Chaos counterpart and the latter's ally, Madeline silently glance at her assist with a faint, curious frown as seeing the overconfident grin in Austin's face and his appearance…
Madeline's emerald eyes softly widen with a quiet gasp as instead of the Death Bringer that willingly ally himself to the queen of her Wonderland, even if it cost him his death, she now sees someone else sitting at the place Austin last took. Definitely a tall man, around the same height as Austin Trance, with matching but messier brown hair, he bears a slight resemblance to the Mad Hatter, that Madeline will eliminate, but has greyish – blue eyes, and his attire is an elegant – looking suit that matches his eyes with matching pants, black boots and fingerless gloves, and his large, top hat has a rose and two cards at one side of the hat. 'Seighart…!?'
Slowly, Madeline lean closer to the imitation of someone she might knew, the calm and elegance she always show in her face quickly dropped to bear a fatigue reaction, which brought the man before her to widen his eyes with a startled frown, when he watch Madeline softly lift her hands towards his face and place her palms against his cheeks, her pure green eyes slowly narrow with what appears to be in sadness when she whisper the same thing again. "Seighart…"
"Q – Queenie!" The sudden shout ringing in her eyes brought Madeline to blink her eyes in surprise and brought herself back to reality, seeing that the man she saw in her vision has been replaced back into Austin Trance, a furious blush on the bridge of his nose and cheeks by Madeline's hands, while Madeline's eyes widen in shock again for her to twist herself and notice that Ultimecia have disappeared from her seat and out of nowhere, while Khalifa is watching Madeline and Austin, as if the two are having a romantic moment even during the War.
Seeing the look of bewilderment in both of their faces staring at her, Khalifa gently place her teacup on the table before assuring to the two flustered adults with a calm scoff and frown in her face. "Don't mind me. Ultimecia just left, so it can be the perfect time to spend your last date together. I'm just watching, so that I can think of Asami."
Trying to get out of this embarrassing farce, Madeline quickly pull herself off Austin for the red – haired queen to raise herself from her chair before turning herself to take a few steps away from the table, letting a cough with her eyes closed to avoid contact right as she starts to brush off the humiliating display she caused by voicing out a demand, her pride slowly returning in her voice and behaviour. "W – Well, in that case; come Austin. We should be making preparations with our battle."
With that, Austin quickly lift, or stumble, off his own chair with his hands holding his guns hastily stuff inside each of his pockets, before the young princess and her summon silently watch the two adults casually walk their way out of the area and into the bush – covered maze of the area, clearly out of sight for a second. However, not even a second as passed after Khalifa carefully place her teacup on the table…
A sudden but soft feeling instantly conceal Khalifa's eyesight, as if something is shielding her eyes from behind, which brought the young warrior to hurriedly lift both hands to the object that dared shut her sight, only to raise her eyebrow in confusion when her hands and fingers softly grasp on the familiar feeling of hands while a voice, a familiar, soft – spoken, soothing and confident voice, enquired with a seductive purr. "You were thinking of me? How cute of you, as always."
Quickly pulling out the hands from her face, Khalifa hastily twist herself on her chair to face the owner, who is sitting on the left armchair. The sight of his calm, overconfident grin he would show in his face is enough to send Khalifa slightly widen her eyes for only a few seconds, before she softly narrow both red orbs back to be stoic when she mutter the name, with a tint of relief for this person's welfare. "Asami."
"That's right, my little Khalifa." Asami whispered with a chuckle as he gently place a hand on Khalifa's head for a soft stroke, while leaning forward towards Khalifa's face…
"What is it, with showing off the villains in a start of a chapter?" A new voice enquired with a bored and smug tone to startle both Asami and Khalifa as the latter turn around on her chair, and the former lift his head for the two to see a familiar figure sitting at the head chair, behind Khalifa, and the side of the table with his right arm lifted to sip a cup of brown tea in his mouth.
Despite it is obvious this newcomer is from Harmony's side and not his own Satan Spawn, due to the former's brown hair and eyes and slightly tanned peach skin, both Khalifa and Asami may bear a confused scowl in their faces of seeing: Sosuke Aizen Klauser wearing an attire that would remind anyone of the character Alice from Wonderland or, to Khalifa, Kai Crystal; a black pinafore – like dress, fit or slightly big for his skinny or underweight form, to nearly reach towards his knees, with short sleeves that only cover past his shoulders and has a white apron over it, his sheathed katana is placed through a hole he made through the left side of the skirt, and black and white tabi shoes reaching below his knees. But instead of a battle straight after the two warriors watch the Akuma Host and enemy gently place his own teacup down on the table to softly glance at the two with a soft smirk…
"Hey, thanks for before. And I'm sorry for attacking you and your friends." Khalifa calmly spoke with a faint nod, as she and Asami watch Sosuke slowly raise himself off his seat, his smile never changed even as he respond to the two, supposedly, enemies with a calm tone for the always patient and polite Akuma Host. "You're welcome, and there's no need to apologize for earlier, as a story does need content. However; there is something I want to do, and I would like both your assistances."
"And that will be?" Asami asked with a curious scowl when the two also stand from the chair while noticing Sosuke's back suddenly emit faint mist of familiar dark blue, purple, and black smoke emerging out of his shoulders and torso, with the Akuma Host's smile grew into a slightly cruel smirk and familiar red markings suddenly manifest on the brunette's face, neck, arms, hands, and legs…
"Now this reminds me of home! ~ But it's so colourful than I remember!" Ai cheered in her version of enthusiasm as she continues to skip forward through a forest, a very peculiar and odd forest with the trees bearing multiple of arrow – shaped signs pointing at different directions.
Not far from her behind; Squall, and Aya casually walk in their normal speed while watching the Mad Hatter hopping away from the two men in her own dance, earning her own representative to close him eyes and thought to himself with annoyance. 'Great. The sooner we're done here, the quicker it is for Ai to do her own thing by herself.'
"Would you think of how Ai is representing you, other than you two are gunners?" Aya enquired the SeeD soldier with a soft, stoic frown when he glance at the latter, who softly open his eyes to glare at the formerly mute albino Akuma Host of darkness, despite having a question on where is Sosuke out of all people, who fortunately to Squall; is more quiet than Ai. So ignoring the crazy child, Squall retorted with a roll of his eyes at the mention of the Mad Hatter. "Yeah. Sometimes, I would think that Sosuke or even you would be a good choice of being my representative, since you both are more sane than Ai."
"Well, the War will end sooner than we think; so don't worry." Aya assured when the two slowly lift their heads and glance at the front to notice Ai is now no longer skipping away, but stopped to stand in front of some bushes and glance at something. The sight of Ai finally stopped instead of doing something irritating earns the two usually stoic and quiet men to glance at each other before they walk towards the Mad Hatter and once they did, the three stare at whatever the girl is looking at…with her face showing a fatigue expression.
Seeing they are in front of a clearing with the pink ground and green trees with purplish bark and bushes surrounding the area, two figures are sleeping with their backs or sides on the ground, both girls with one on the right has knee-length black hair, and wearing a sleeveless red trench coat to her bare feet, which the coat is open to show her wearing another sleeveless red shirt with a string tied around her neck and black shorts. The other girl on the left has back – length and ruffled brown hair with a pink ribbon tied around her head in a bow, and dressed in a dark green pinafore with a white shirt underneath that bears short, puffy, sleeves, has yellow buttons on the dress, long white stockings and brown knee – high boots.
"K – Kai? How is she here?" Ai muttered to herself in horror when she glanced at the girl wearing the dark green dress, with Squall taking a short glare at the Mad Hatter to see her shocked, a sort of rare moment for the stoic loner, until Squall listened to Aya's words informing the two for the brunette to turn his head and see Aya's pinkish – red eyes narrow at something new in front of them with a determined scowl. "A demon summon."
Noticing a newcomer has just appeared, in a flash of a second, to stand in front of the two sleeping girls; Squall hurriedly lift his left arm to hastily lower both him and Ai to kneel when all three silently hid behind the bushes to spy on the other figure. A man, a very effeminate man, with back – length dark green or black hair, steel brown eyes and dressed in a widen – long – sleeved robe that reaches to his knees with a slit on each side, black pants and boots. Luckily, this man may not even notice the three warriors behind him as he is mostly fixated on the two girls when he starts calling them to wake up. "Wake up, you two…Girls, wake up."
But seeing the two sleeping girls has not move an inch off the ground to sleep peacefully; Ai, Squall, and Aya continue to silently watch this man slowly raising his voice when he kept calling them to wake up, a noticeable vein popped on his left cheek when he looks agitated while the two girls continue to sleep. "Excuse me but wake up! Excuse me, please wake up! Excuse me, wake up! You two!..." Until…
"I SAID WAKE UP ALREADY!" The man immediately yelled aloud in fury, which may receive a sudden noise from the startled Ai for Squall to move a hand and shield the hatter's mouth, avoid being caught by the possible enemies, as the three watch the man continue to complain to the girls, with his fisted hands on both his hips, for the girl wearing the green dress, the one called Kai by Ai earlier, slowly flicker her eyes when she first give a faint glance at the man in front of her to go back to sleep before she lift herself to wake up in surprise of the newcomer with a startled gasp. "How could you go to sleep in another world!? Can you both read the atmosphere!? Didn't you notice that it's not quite normal, you idiots!"
"How dare he called my best friend an idiot! He's gonna kill Kai!" Ai muffled her anger in Squall's hand although both him and Aya can understand clearly of her sentence, for the latter to glance at the scene when the man slowly lower himself to stand in a crouch and glare at the other sleeping woman with a frightened Kai, who is shaking the other one in dread, for Aya to thought aloud with suspicion. "I don't think so. If he is going to kill her, he would've done it by now."
"But aren't they the summons of Rin's daughter and Asami?" Squall enquired in a whisper as he turn his head to glare at Ai for the latter to pull herself out of the former's hand and retort back in anger of his question, her hands already pulled out her guns from her pockets. "No way! There's no way my own best friend is joining the enemy, especially with that Madeline bitch!"
"Shut it!" Squall hissed quietly at his own representative, as the sound of a girl groaning in pain brought the three to get their attention back to the scene, and witness the sight of the long – haired man, with an angry pout, pinching his fingers at the second girl's right cheek to send her whimpering once she has seated, with Kai watching the other one swatting the hand off her cheek to rub her cheek while looking at the man in surprise, anger, and pain. "W – What did you do that for!? What kind of person would pinch someone else while she is sleeping!?"
"Someone who was sleeping in a middle of a bizarre forest, shouldn't be talking about how I wake you girls up!" The man argue back as Kai kept turning her head left to right and facing the two quarrelling at each other in shock, unsure of what to do, even as the man slowly calm himself down to glance at the two with his anger also lowering down in his face, receiving a surprised reaction from the two. "Well…at least I managed to survive a devastating attack. I honestly can't imagine, being killed without seeing you girls."
"You were almost killed?" The unnamed girl questioned with her anger quickly transitioned in shock and concern of his words although the five, with Squall, Aya, and Ai listening in secret, turn their heads to face Kai when she assured aloud to the two summons with her, with a relief smile of the man's safe welfare. "But Raven, what matters is that Fei Long's alive and well. After all; he's been a dad to us, right?"
BOOM!
Unfortunately; a sudden and deafening sound of a blast broke off the silence and rocked the surroundings from out of nowhere but far from their location, right after Ai's friend wonder aloud about this Fei Long, which received numerous surprised reactions from the people while Ai wasted no time to hastily lift herself from her hiding spot and yelled out to the three, her determined eyes fixated on Kai, to see their shocked stares of what happens when they also notice the two warriors of Harmony and their assist. "Kai! Stay away from them!"
"Ai?" Kai gasped in surprise, visibly puzzled to see the Mad Hatter here, although something seem to caught the long – haired man's attention when he first glance up with an apprehensive glower of the noises, of gunshots and metal clanging over metal like blades, when it continues to grow louder and louder of above to the sky…before this Fei Long hastily wrap both his arms around Kai and the other girl who was called Raven, and swiftly lift himself to leap away from their last position and through the forest to disappear with the two girls on his arms letting out a few gasps until Ai let out a bewildered and furious shout when she watch the stunt and the thought of her best friend in the enemy's grasp. "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"
"Hey!" Squall called out when he and Aya hurriedly stand from their hiding spot as well, but even after the noises they heard from the sky growing louder and louder…the three immediately witness three flashes of familiar figures manifesting and appear in a fraction of a second between the warriors of Harmony and the three possible enemies. However, the clear view of the three newcomers received a furious growl from the surprised but livid sneer from the Mad Hatter as she and Squall mutter the names of two of them, with the latter bearing a stoic scowl. "Ultimecia!/ You bitch!"
"Hmph. How dare you refer to me with such an insulting title? I believe I should make your filth – covered mouth lick my blade as punishment. Austin, provide me your services with your 'gunmanship'." Madeline de Autriche affirmed with a chortle as she calmly lift her right arm with her blazing saber in hand, while she slowly turn her head over to her left shoulder to the forest, where Fei Long, Kai, and Raven last stood, with a cruel smile the moment everyone listened to the queen pondering aloud. "As soon as I am done with you, Mad Hatter, and have what's rightfully mine; I shall eliminate your friend and my traitorous pawn …even if they are the summons of Shinsuke Khalifa and her love."
"You're the one that's going to be eliminated! Just leave Kai alone!" Ai yelled in wrath when she lift one of her guns and aim at her arch – enemy, at the same time Ultimecia glance at her own enemy and the former assist of discord with a confident smirk for her to profess towards the formerly mute soldier and traitor, who he and Squall silently and calmly pull out their sword and gunblade out to start their fight. "So even a traitor wishes to die hard? How touching. In that case, allow us to fulfil that wish!"
"Are you ready, Squall?" Aya exclaimed without changing his stoic and determined expression in his pale face, like Squall when he hold his Gunblade to aim at Ultimecia for him to respond with a sigh. "Yeah. So you better keep up!"
Battle: Squall Leonhart (LV 18), Ai De Seighart (LV 17), & Aya (Assist) vs Ultimecia (LV 19), Madeline De Autriche (LV 18), & Austin Trance (Assist)
Information: Defeat Ultimecia, Madeline de Autriche and Austin Trance! (Music: Deadman Wonderland Opening (Rock Instrumental)
Madeline: (Holding her saber to let the flames cover the blade) "Is this how you act before a Queen? HM?
Ai: (Ready her guns in her hands) "You're no Queen of mine!"
Ai and Squall ran towards Ultimecia and Madeline, as the latter two also ran and flew to their enemies, before the battle starts when Ai and Squall hastily dodge the queen of Wonderland sending a strike of her blade, while Ultimecia lift her right arm for her fingertips to lighten up a red glow of energy before multiple arrows manifested and soar towards the two gunman and gunwoman, who swiftly twist their bodies in the air and continue to dodge the arrows.
Seeing Ai almost landing on the ground while Squall hurriedly dashed towards Ultimecia, Madeline swung her sword to throw slashes of fire to hit Ai, who got hit multiple times, before she falls on her back on the ground. (Ai: 760 BRV to 698 BRV, Madeline 784 BRV to 846 BRV) but Madeline was caught off guard when Ai roll her body to stand back on the green grass and rapidly shot storms of bullets through Madeline, to get a scream from the Queen. (Madeline: 844 BRV to 731 BRV, Ai: 705 BRV to 818 BRV)
After a couple more bullets; Ai had the opportunity to pull out a sort of potion from one of her pockets and threw it towards Madeline's direction before unleashing three more bullets to let it break and cause a huge explosion from the potion, sending Madeline to fly away through the forest until she hit an invisible wall of a barrier around the battlefield. (Madeline: 2999 HP to 2181 HP – 170 HP Wall Rush = 2011, Ai: LV to 18, full HP: 2624 HP to 2973 HP, 760 BRV to 800 BRV)
With a chuckle; Ultimecia gracefully twirls on the air with her arms lifted upwards to release a faint mist of dark blue energy before the silver – haired witch summon a single, giant, blue axe, which instantly flew itself towards Squall's direction and managed to hit, sending the young soldier flying away before hitting a tree, a grunt escaped his throat. (Squall: 433 BRV to 296 BRV – 34 BRV Wall Rush = 264 BRV, Ultimecia: 454 BRV to 591 BRV + 34 Wall Rush = 625 BRV ).
"Wanna die so soon?" Appearing in a flash of a second, Austin lift his arms and guns at Ai, who is currently fighting Madeline right now, for the gunner to shoot a barrage of bullets towards the Mad Hatter. However, Ai managed to leapt backwards and escape from the bullets to fly towards Austin although the Death Bringer immediately disappear in a flash of blue and purple orb of energy.
"Flash!" Ultimecia muttered as she lift her right arm to point her finger at Squall while she suddenly twist her body backwards to float in a circle, for multiple red arrows to soar towards Squall, who managed to twist his body on air again and avoid every single arrow the witch pulled out.
The moment Ultimecia ceased her attack to levitate with her body's posture straight, she again lift her arms and hands upwards, but this time a yellow magical crest with a large symbol of a star and blue linings around the crest appeared under Squall's feet, until it immediately blasted an energy blast to send Squall flying upwards with a groan. (Squall: 3395 HP to 2770 HP)
But right as she sees Squall falling with gravity, Ultimecia instantly witness Aya, who silently appeared behind her in a flash, but did not react in time when the albino soldier lift his left arm right as a large ring made of floating yet strange black letters or symbols with glowing red symbols manifested around Ultimecia, to her shock when she can feel she is not falling to the ground... (Ultimecia: BREAK, Aya: 684 BRV to 1429 BRV)
Until a swipe of Aya's sword across her body from upwards, alongside a burst of explosive red blast from the revealed trap he summoned receives a scream, when Ultimecia was also sent falling but down to hit her back on the grass and created a crater. (Ultimecia: 3475 HP to 2046 HP - 83 HP Wall Rush = 1963 HP)
Blocking more of Ai's bullets with her blazing saber, Madeline let out a soft chuckle that Ai can listen when she ceased to glare at Madeline when she taunted with a confident smirk and holding her saber over her right shoulder. "YOU'RE WIDE OPEN!"
Suddenly, Madeline swung her sword towards Ai's direction as the sword extended into a whip with flames covering the rope and twirl around to create a whirlpool of fire and strike the Mad Hatter multiple times, earning more grunts from the Mad Hatter from getting damages until the final swung of the whip brought Ai to fly away from the queen. (Ai: 850 BRV to 634 BRV, Madeline: 784 BRV to 1000 BRV)
At the same time; Madeline starts to chant after her body was suddenly covered with green energy and her left eye changed to have green scales and a yellow monster eye with a cat slit - like pupil, until Madeline swung her whip downwards to forcefully bring Ai down to the ground with a painful scream. "Demon within the looking glass… POSSESS ME AND DEFEAT THE TRESSPASSERS OF MY LAND!" (EX: The Rightful Queen) (Ai: 2973 HP to 1973 HP – 241 HP Wall Rush = 1732 HP)
[Dual EX Bursts: Il Diablo, Junction Griever!]
"Shall I lend a hand?" Ultimecia offered with a confident smirk as she notice her representative's new form, while the witch herself immediately transform to have a drastic appearance with a lion – like head, front paws, a feathered lower half the color scheme of red and black. Her offer earns a chortle with a smirk as well from Madeline before the two dashed towards their prey. "Please."
Covering the entire scene to be almost pitched black; a sudden large, silver dragon with yellow eyes appeared from the background, with Madeline calmly stroke one side of its massive head with her hand to demand while glaring at Ai. "Have a little snack, my Jabberwocky…" before her 'Jabberwocky' extend itself to open its gigantic and razor sharp teeth and continuously bit Ai numerous times. (Ai: 634 BRV to 315 BRV, Madeline: 1000 BRV to 1315 BRV)
In an instant, Madeline's 'Jabberwocky' swiftly swung it's head while opening its mouth to release Ai before sending her flying upwards as Ultimecia swipe her hand and brought the entire scene, with Ai in a halt of frozen time [Imagine the entire scene, Ultimecia excluded, flipping upside down], for Ultimecia to first walk towards Ai...only to disappear and reappear in front of Ai, with multiple purple arrows materializing around her. "Playtime is over! Eternal sleep…"
Once she stopped, Ultimecia lower her left arm for all the arrows to soar towards Ai (Ai: BREAK! Ultimecia: 0 BRV to 743 BRV) until Ultimecia lift both arms to let out a chuckle right as an explosion burst out behind her with Ai inside. (Ai: 1732 HP to 989 HP) * End Dual Ex Bursts! *
Watching Ai first falling on the ground before picking herself up to continue with their fight; both Ultimecia and Madeline notice Squall, and Aya who again materialize beside the former's side but this time in a new appearance with longer hair, different attire and wielding a death scythe in each hand [Note: From his fight in Chapter/ Part 25], running towards the two in fast speed.
Yet, Squall's body and Gunblade lighten up a fast speed of light blue energy when he leapt off the ground before charging himself towards Ultimecia, successfully sending her blown away to hit another tree in the process, while Aya also leapt towards Madeline to, without giving her time to react like earlier with the time witch, hurriedly swing one of his scythes towards Madeline…but instead, hit Austin who appeared in a flash. (Austin: Assist Lock!, Ultimecia: BREAK, Squall: 264 BRV to 1195 BRV until, Ultimecia: 1963 HP to 768 HP – 410 HP Wall Rush = 358 HP)
Dropping herself despite summoning Austin to avoid that attack by the traitor, Madeline gracefully land her feet on the ground, in front of Ultimecia; but she reacted in a tint of surprise when she realized Ai is aiming both her guns directly in front and at her. Pulling the triggers, Ai's guns immediately shoot dark energy like bullets towards Madeline and send her flinching to get damage from every hit. (Madeline: BREAK!, Ai: 0 BRV to 954 BRV)
About to finish the attack with the twentieth bullet, Ai allowed the bullets of darkness to grow into a large ball – shaped bullet black smokes, in front of Madeline who was unable to move during the shooting, and shot the cannonball – like bullet to the queen in fast speed.
Not only the massive ball of darkness brings Madeline to receive multiple strikes inside, but Squall sprinted towards Ultimecia twirl while flipping himself horizontally to swing his Gunblade and surround himself, Ultimecia, and the ball containing Ai's enemy inside, multiple red orbs of energy manifested around the three only to instantly detonate as bombs, at the same time Squall's Gunblade suddenly changed color from silver to blue with a drastic shape. "Lion's Heart!" (Ai: 954 BRV to 1297 BRV until; Ultimecia: 358 HP to 0 HP, Madeline: 2011 HP to 714 HP)
[Dual Ex Bursts: Renzokuken & the Mad Hatter of Death!]
"Are you ready, or what?!" Ai demanded Squall with a grin as Squall gave an annoyed glare while watching his representative suddenly turn herself paler than usual, her eyes turn red and bore fangs on their teeth, in a flash, although Squall only respond with a bored sigh before the two sprint forward to their enemies. "Good grief."
"Don't make me laugh." Squall swung his Gunblade across Ultimecia's body for his weapon to lighten up a bright blue glow of energy on the blade to resume striking the witch multiple times while at the same time, Ai let out a chant with a calm serene tone when she shoot some more bullets, of black smokes, from her guns at Madeline who is behind Ultimecia. "I use the Arcana of Death, Endings and Separations…" (Squall: 0 BRV to 784, Ai: 0 BRV to 650 BRV)
Once the two are done harassing their arch – enemies with their sword and gun attacks, Squall is the first to ceased when his Gunblade let out another glow, while Ai's guns magically transformed into with a long yet simple rapier after she shouted her finishing chant to possibly end their finishers. "IL MORTE!"
In a flash, Squall and Ai dashes to Ultimecia and Madeline from opposite directions and past each other to give out a final strike, not seeing the sudden explosions by their attack but they do hear Ultimecia groaning in pain and Madeline screaming in agony. * Victory! *
Ai De Seighart: (Placing her guns back to her pockets, while Squall first swung his Gunblade with his back turned before he softly twist his body to close his eyes and place the blade of his Gunblade on his shoulders; confident.) "Go back to hell, where you belong!"
Squall, Aya, and Ai let out quiet pants as they stood victorious in front of Ultimecia, Madeline, and Austin; who are kneeling on the ground, blood covering on the latter two during their fight. Lifting her shaking head while her body released particles and mists of darkness from her body as defeat, Ultimecia glare at Squall with a sneer in both of their faces but before she could even say anything…
"Madeline!" After a quick glance at the sky to inspect the loud noises they heard before and during the fight, Austin hastily leapt towards the wounded Madeline with his arms outstretched, before a startled Ai watch Madeline and Austin jumping away from their location…
Right as two swift and instant flashes of black energies rain down on the enemies' locations, straight towards Ultimecia's position, and erupted in a deafening explosion with heavy smokes from the ground fill the air, with Ai, Squall, and Aya hurriedly lifting their weapons in front of their faces to avoid dusts in their eyes and faces. But they could not block the sounds of Ultimecia and Austin's anguish screams entering their ears until it stops to be silent.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Ai enquired in shock and anger as the smokes slowly fade away from the sudden explosion, once all three warriors of Harmony unhurriedly lower their weapons to inspect what is the cause, for the three…now five as Austin and Madeline are shown to be alive from that eruption, although Austin looks like he did not survive with his back receiving a heavy and bloodied wound and blood caked his mouth and chin, and sitting against a tree behind them, with Ultimecia already disappeared to be replaced by a surprising sight of Ryuichi Asami, with his body bare while his legs is a giant reptilic tail of a snake and bears his dragon wings, wrapping his muscled arms around a familiar figure of Shinsuke Khalifa, and in front of them is Sosuke, but his appearance has significantly changed.
Instead of short hair; Sosuke's dark chocolate hair grew longer to his waist, with some strands slicked back with the exception of a long strand hanging down between his face and pupil-less eyes, his face, arms, and legs bear the exact markings of the Berserk Klauser, despite Sosuke does not show himself as insane, and his attire consists of a floor-length black kimono, with the ends split into four sections to show him wearing high - heeled boots, with only one left sleeve while his right is cut off to show his arm and the chest area is slightly open to show his chest and his VIII Akuma Mark, a matching floor-length black cloak with a hood like his own on his outfit, his back has eight, long spider legs, four on each side, that is exactly like his Akuma, Reaper, and his hands are holding an exact scythe as Reaper and Aya's when the latter is fused with the Akuma.
"Sosuke!" Listening to Ultimecia's enemy revealing the Akuma Host's name with a tint of surprise; Madeline silently glance at Asami and Khalifa in front of her and Austin in dread, clearly shock of the sight of her comrade and her strong lover have been easily defeated by this Akuma Host, one fitting for death. But before she could have the voice to call out, once she saw Asami slowly lifting himself off the ground to glare at their enemy, who is lifting his right arm with the blade of his scythe nearly an inch closer to his throat, while Khalifa seems to be unconscious in her love's embrace…
"Maddie…" A male voice spoke, with resentment, brought Madeline to widen her eyes in horror and quickly lift her head to see…the same man she saw in her delusional vision earlier, the other Mad Hatter, but this time he is semi – transparent as he glares at the fatigue queen with a furious scowl, while his right arm is aiming a familiar gun against her forehead, earning another horrified reaction from the queen when she heard the click as well as the voice speaking what appears to be his final words to the queen of Wonderland… "I'm far from happy to see you."
A sudden loud sound of a gunshot brought everyone's attentions where instead of Sosuke nearly beheading the Melusine before Rin's daughter, all eyes are lifted to see a sort of translucent ghost of a man, dressed almost similar to Ai, standing in front of the dead Austin, and now a dead Madeline, with her forehead bearing a bloody hole from the man shooting a bullet through her forehead, allowing crimson streams to spill on her body and her eyes, as big as saucers, now bear a green blur.
The sight of the new man as well as Madeline's death seems to receive a new change of plan when Asami hastily lift himself, getting Squall, Aya, and Sosuke's attentions when they turn their heads to face the hybrid, but Asami managed to swiftly jumped towards the sky, with Khalifa in his arms, before Squall almost moved when Asami's wings started to flap until the hybrid has flew away in such speed…
"Don't worry about him." Sosuke's voice immediately stop Squall from pursuing when the brunette soldier turn his head to face the Akuma Host, while the latter suddenly found his body to be glowing into a black swarm of darkness, that instantly shroud Sosuke before it transitioned to fade and show himself to be the same before the transformation, as normal despite the fact there is nothing normal about a handsome man wearing a dress and apron, with a faint frown in Sosuke's face when he explain the reason of stopping Squall from chasing Asami. "Asami and I were having just a short fight, it's nothing serious. In any case, if there is someone who deeply wish to fight the two of them, it has to be Uncle Rin."
"Luka?" An unfamiliar voice called out right after Sosuke finished talking, who nearly reacted with a noise in surprise, for everyone to glance at the Ai – look alike Mad Hatter, staring at Sosuke with a surprised but also happy smile when everyone listen to the Mad Hatter exclaiming to the brunette, with Ai herself facing the ground with a sad frown, seeing that the man's legs began to softly glow a warm, white light that rises to his body and slowly disappear. "Holy teacups. Luka, you haven't changed at all…well, you seem shorter than I remember! How are you and the others; Em, Kanou, Karma, and Shinchi? And why are wearing the same dress as my Alice, but black?"
'Who is this guy? And how does he know Luka and his friends? Even though he's talking with Luka's son.' Squall thought to himself in confusion as he looks at Sosuke, who first stare at the man who's body is glowing with the light continue to rise to his body and head in fast speed even though he glanced at the brunette with a sad but also happy grin, only for his questions to be unanswered when the light began to envelop the unnamed Mad Hatter, until it disperses and burst in a flash of light in a second, what's left of him was nothing but Madeline and Austin's deaths in front of the four warriors' eyes.
"Ai, do you know who that man is? And how does he know Lord Luka and his friends?" Wanting to break off this silence, Aya turn his head to his left and glance at Ai, for her to quickly lift her head and glance at the three men staring at her in surprise, with Sosuke not noticing his Arachne Akuna Reaper, shrunken in size, standing on his head when she instantly materialize and appear in a puff of white smoke, as Ai slightly lower her head to glance at the ground with a sad frown before she answers Aya's question. "Yeah…but I rather not answer it right now. I don't want the royal pain to know this, even if she's dead."
"Well, if that's the case; we won't force you. I'll get us back to Hybrid Hell with 5.O.5." Sosuke said with a faint smile as when mentioning the name of his pet, a flash of blue emerged from behind Sosuke's back and under the hood of his black cloak, showing Ai, Aya, and Squall the familiar face of 5.O.5 as a small Spitz dog [Note: from Chapter/ Part 37].
Seeing the look of confusion and curiosity in the three warriors' faces, the small blue dog hurriedly leap off it's owner's cloak but instead of just landing on the ground, a heavy burst of blue smoke burst out of the small dog…only to disappear to show a new Disguise that definitely surprised Ai to let out a scream, while Squall and Aya may have a confused reaction when everyone lift their heads.
Unlike the previous Disguises with a large bear, polar bear – dog hybrid, and Spitz dog; 5.O.5's new Disguise is possibly the largest, which is a gigantic cat creature with its body shaped like it is some bus and it has twelve legs, six on each side, a very large grin on its cat face, wide white eyes with black slit pupils, it's body has multiple, rectangular holes to make it looks like open windows and a windshield, and the inside of this creature has more fur, which is shaped to look like a floor and three large couches, that moves whenever the 'Catbus' breathes. Like the other three Disguises, the creature has light blue fur with an addition of dark blue stripes on its body and head.
"Holy teacups! Your pet just reminded me of my best friend Chesh!" Ai cried in surprise and enthusiasm as Squall, Aya, and Sosuke turn their heads to face 5.O.5 Catbus form when the gigantic cat open it's grinning mouth to let out a loud meow that fills the air, with Sosuke and Aya listening to Reaper's voice while the former's eyes trail up to look at his Akuma on his head. "It never gets old to see 5.O.5 changing its Disguises often. By the way, thanks for fusing with me to fight with that Melusine."
"You're welcome. I can tell you want to show yourself more often." Sosuke thanked with a calm smile as he watches 5.O.5's side began to droop down to form into a hole, possibly as an entrance, with Aya, Squall, and Ai silently watch Sosuke leisurely climb himself inside his own pet, showing the three it seems harmless.
So without question, the three quickly follow Sosuke and climb themselves inside 5.O.5's Catbus body, feeling the cat's breathing and purring under their feet once the entrance raise to be normal and the Catbus, after letting out another meow, immediately ran through the forest with the trees magically parting away from the giant cat transportation. The only remainder of this world is the dead bodies of the former corrupted queen and the Death Bringer who served her till death.
To be continued…
Omake/ Encyclopaedia: Squall Leonhart & Ai De Seighart.
Riser and Lucy's voices: Tainted Repentance Encyclopaedia! [Showing a close up of Lucy and Riser]
Lucy: [A calm smile] Today, we have the main protagonists of Final Fantasy VIII and Wattpad author Vocahunter's Dare to Love You. Unfortunately, we couldn't get their enemies.
Riser: And before we can start, Riser have something to say… [Showing the TV room where Ai and Squall are present alongside….two familiar characters from the omake of Chapter/ Part 27, one of them is glancing at the other with a confused scowl, because the latter has a pair of cat ears and a bushy tail that matches his hair.]
Riser: [Glaring at Kurosaki Ichigo and Gin; furious] WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!? [The TV shows Squall and Ai's fight with Ultimecia and Madeline]
'Cheshire' Gin: [Looking at Riser, mockingly confident] What's wrong with showing up, even though we're not part of the story? Besides, not only I'm here ta' see this 'Squall' …I'm also here as a teaser for a rewrite of Aizen in Wonderland.
[Suddenly, Sosuke Aizen Klauser, in his Alice attire, shows up from out of nowhere by falling towards Ichigo by landing his feet on the poor Soul Reaper, earning a painful scream when he land his body on the ground, to Riser and Lucy's shock]
Sosuke (Aizen Klauser): [Noticing he landed on Ichigo, before he quickly step aside to help Ichigo up to his feet; calmly] Sorry…that was supposed to be for Gin.
Kurosaki Ichigo: [Look at his enemy, shocked and furious] WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR, AIZEN!? I KNOW I DIDN'T SENSE YOUR SPIRITUAL PRESSURE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO LAND ON ME! AND WHY ARE YOU WEARING A DRESS!?
Squall Leonhart's mind: [Annoyed] What is going on in here? And why does this cat man want with me?
Ai: [Amused] AHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was funny! Ahahahahahaha!
Lucy: [Glancing at Riser, frowning] Hey Riser, I think this segment won't go well than the others.
Riser: [Shrugging his shoulders] Riser can tell that despite their differences, Ai and Squall can work something outside. In the meantime… [Turns to face Sosuke to get the others' attention; excited] Hey Aizen, can Riser ride on your Catbus? Riding one of the famous characters from Ghibli's Totoro is something a lot of people wish to try.
'Cheshire' Gin: [Raising an arm; happy] I wanna ride on it too!
Ai: [Also raising a hand; excited] Count me in! I wanna ride that Cheshire Cat!
Sosuke (Aizen Klauser): [Despite being slightly confused, while Lucy, Squall, and Ichigo are more than confused] If that is what you want, Gin. 5.O.5.
[In a giant flash of blue smoke behind them, The Catbus form of 5.O.5 appeared which blocked the TV and the wall behind it, but Riser, Gin, and Ai let out a short but excited scream when they ran to the Catbus's right side where it drooped down for the three to run inside, once the entrance closes back, for the Catbus to hastily ran to the other side.]
Riser & Gin's voices: [Happy] Tonari [beep] ! [Leaving Squall, Ichigo, and Lucy to watch them leave with a sweat drop] [Note: Riser & Gin was about to sing the Japanese version of My Neighbour Totoro]
Sosuke (Aizen Klauser); [Facing the camera: a calm smile] Oh yes, Vocahunter. Thank you so much for allowing RedKHII to bring your characters to life in this series. We hope you'll enjoy reading this crossover and continue to write more of Dare to Love You.
