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'The' – Thoughts

'The' – Telepathic Speech

AN: I'm pretty sure that with the way I'm planning it, after this there will be one or two more chapters, not including the epilogue.

Enjoy the chapter!

The Altered Rotation

oO~Glen Baskerville and Jabberwock~Oo

'I hope I'm not too late,' Alice thought as she continued to run on the glowing path with Cheshire held tight within her arms. 'Oz-niisama, Seaweed Head, Stupid Clown, hold on for a little bit longer!'

-Break & Mad Hatter-

"We've been walking for a while and there's still no way out?" Break murmured to himself, as he continued walking.

Unfortunately, Break's vision started to blur slightly. The white-haired man blinked and waited for his vision to focus, only to see ghostly apparitions before him.

"It was you," they all chorused, repeating the same line over and over again. One by one, more and more of them appeared around Break and his Chain. With each chanting of the line, they all took a step closer to the white-haired man.

And just when Break thought this would be the end, he saw a path of soft-white light cut through the apparitions and zoomed in beneath his feet.

Hearing footsteps, the red-eyed man looked up to see a figure shrouded in black running towards him. As the figure drew closer, he realized that it was Alice and Cheshire.

"Come one, you Stupid Clown!" Alice shouted as she ran past him. "We need to go! NOW! Before anyone else gets into anymore trouble!"

Not understanding what Alice meant, Break raised a brow before shrugging and running along the path that seemed to lengthen as Alice kept going.

-Gilbert & Raven-

Gilbert sighed in frustration. The dark-haired man didn't know how long he'd been walking, but he was pretty sure that he wasn't getting anywhere.

"When I get out of here, I'm going to give whoever is responsible a couple well-placed shots to the—" he was cut off by a low moan that sounded.

This was followed by a high-pitched shriek and a chorus of groans.

A shiver trailed up Gilbert's spine as he looked around, trying to see just who or what was making the sounds.

"Ring around the roses
A pocket full of posies…"

Gilbert spun around, hearing the chorus of voices singing the haunting rhyme. He tried to pinpoint the location from where the voices came from, but to no avail.

"Ashes, ashes
We all fall down…"

It seemed that the singing came from all directions.

Panicked, Gilbert broke out into a run, only to find that the singing followed him and drew closer with each step he took.

And just when the voices were at their loudest, a path of soft-white light cut through the darkness and ran underneath his feet.

"Oi, Seaweed Head!" came Alice's voice.

"Stupid Rabbit?" Gilbert muttered. "What the hell?"

"This isn't the time to stand around, you idiot!" the brown-haired girl shouted at him. "We have to go now!"

"Unless you don't want to save your master…" Break drawled playfully.

That got Gilbert's attention and broke off into a run, following the two Chains and the white-haired man.

'Hold on, Oz,' Gilbert thought, 'We're coming!'

-Oz-

"I could just cut myself out of here, can't I?" the gold-haired man muttered, putting his hand on the hilt of his sword.

'Don't!' Jack shouted, making Oz lose his balance and tumble to the ground. Or at least what seemed to be the ground.

'Why shouldn't I?' Oz questioned. 'It'd be quicker than walking around the entire time.'

'Did you forget what Lacie told you?' Jack reminded. 'This dimension is ALIVE. This means that if you harm it in any way, it would react in some way or another and it wouldn't be in our favour!'

'Okay, okay, so hacking myself out is out of the question,' the gold-haired man conceded. 'But then what should I do, then? Wait around until someone comes to rescue me? I'm not the princess that waits for the prince to save the day!'

'That's exactly what you should do,' Jack said bluntly. 'And you say you're not a princess? Well, let's just imagine you in a pretty dress with all the right accessories, make-up, and a why not put your hair up, too? Think about it, you'd make a pretty girl!'

A vein ticked on Oz's forehead.

'If I look like a girl, then you do, too!' Oz retorted. 'Remember, my hair's just as long as yours and I'm practically a carbon copy of you. So technically, when you're imagining me in that get-up, you're imagining yourself in it. And of course, that makes me worry about a bit…'

Jack had no comeback for this. 'Oh just shut-up and wait to be saved!'

As if on cue, a path of soft-white light appeared beneath his feet. The gold-haired man looked up and saw his two Chains as well as Break and Gilbert with their Chains running towards him.

"Let's go, Oz-niisama!" Alice called as and the others ran up to him and passed him.

The gold-haired man blinked for a moment, before he snapped out of his daze and ran after them.

"Do I want to know how this happened?" Oz asked Alice.

"It's nothing bad, Nii-sama," the brunette reassured her Contractor. "I'll tell you about it after we're out of this place, though."

The gold-haired man gave a nod in acceptance and they continued to run in silence towards the glowing white opening in the distance.

"Great, we get out of one place and into another!" Gilbert burst out. "Where the hell are we now?!"

Before Oz was able to answer his friend, clapping sounded, echoing around the large room that was composed of warping colours.

"I'm impressed," a low silky voice chuckled. "You all made it through the little gifts I sent."

"Who are you!" Alice demanded as Cheshire shifted to his human-cat form.

With that, a shadow rose up from the ground a few feet away from them, taking the form of a man Jack knew very well and Oz knew from witnessing Jack's memories.

Pandora~Hearts

This man had wavy black hair that was half pulled back with a maroon ribbon, pale skin, and a pair of dark-violet eyes.

He wore a maroon long-sleeved button-down shirt with a dark-brown button-down waistcoat over it. He wore a pair of black dress pants with black dress shoes, and a black justaucorps coat with gold embroidery and fastenings.

Pandora~Hearts

"Glen," Oz said in a lowly voice.

"What?" Gilbert turned to Oz in shock, noticing Break's eyes turning to the gold-haired man as well.

"This is Glen Baskerville," Oz announced, "the man responsible for the numerous deaths and the Tragedy of Sabrièl."

Glen chuckled for a moment before his eyes laid upon the one who'd spoken. Violet eyes widened as the smile fell from his face and was replaced with a furious expression.

"You!" Glen growled. "You should be dead! You couldn't have lived after what that boy did!"

'So he thinks I'm Jack,' Oz thought in amusement. 'This just might work to our advantage.'

"But I did," Oz retorted, "and this time, I will make absolute sure you cannot cheat death!"

"I'd like to see you try, you imbecilic fool!" a malevolent laugh erupted from Glen as his deep-violet orbs began to glow eerily. Suddenly, a Chain burst out from the ground, only to land behind the black-haired male.

Pandora~Hearts

The Chain was a large dragon, similar to that of the one the five fought in Reveille. Only this one was black as ebony with a blood-red eye and violet running down the underside of her chin all the way down to the underside of the tip of her tail. Her black wings with violet undersides were tattered and scars marred his body. Her right eye was sewn shut while several severed Chains were wrapped around his body. Two rows of sharp yellow-white teeth ran inside her mouth and pair of horns was perched on her head.

(AN: Picture Maleficent's Dragon form in Sleeping Beauty and give it the traits I added.)

Pandora~Hearts

"This," Glen said in sadistic glee, "is—"

"Jabberwock," Oz breathed out, eyes wide.

"This is really bad-nya," Cheshire muttered.

A bientôt,

TsukiyoTenshi