Right, the last chapter might have sucked, but I'm putting a load of humour in here because I can't be serious if my life depended on it! You know the story by now, I'm Lewis Carroll and I work for sacnoth! (NOT!) This chapter will be the only chapter so far in P.O.V. style, don't forget to tell me what you think, I can always improve on what you dislike!
Alice in wonderland.
-chapter six-
[ Alice ]
I looked up at the mangy ceiling as a sigh passed my lips, I was wondering about how I will escape. Well, Margarete would never in her life come and save me after my little outburst, and Yuri was mad at me, Zhuzhen wouldn't be able to take on a whole army of monsters and the others didn't know, Koudelka may have known, but how was she going to get my only hope, Yuri to save me?
[ Yuri ]
I looked back at Halley as we silently agreed to face the nightmare of being around Meiuan voluntarily. I didn't know what I was getting myself into and I didn't know why I was so willing to save that crazy little bitch who tried to kill me. She was cute yeah, but that couldn't make me love her…right? I wasn't sure but whatever it was, I was willing to go into the depths of hell for her…
[ Alice ]
That creepy old man, Dehuai was ogling me again. He was trying to run his metallic fingers along my leg but I resisted him, I ignored him, I did all I could just to stop him, and the ritual he was about to perform. Not that it would be much use, but it would buy me some time, Koudelka told me Yuri was coming, with a few reinforcements, and they would try to save me in time. I thought back to my home, the little cottage in Zurich's suburbs, the little farm, I loved the thought of going to sleep in my own warm bed, and my mother and father…
"Alice!!!" My father's voice screamed, I turned my head to the left and saw him being cornered by a bunch of wind shears, "I tried to save you when I saw you fall down the hole and I followed you, they caught me, and I'm sorry, goodbye Alice, tell your mother I loved her if you survive!"
"Father!" I shrieked as I watched him being ripped to shreds.
[ Halley ]
Yuri looked as terrified as I was, Meiuan slowly moved closer trying to kiss us. Zhuzehn finally called us in when Meiuan was about to give us a striptease. Yuri looked relived, I have to admit, so was I! Zhuzhen's shrine looked amazing, there was all these foreign items, some even from earth that I never could imagine. I toyed with a strange looking weapon as Yuri talked to Zhuzhen. The weapon was strange indeed, it was a bit of timber in a 'y' shape and a band of elastic was tied to each end of the two twigs that branched out, in the centre of the elastic, there was a small bit of a leather patch, and beside the weapon on the table was a small pouch of marbles. "Hey Zhuzhen, what's this?" I asked as Yuri scowled at me for interrupting, He seemed more intimidating as a death emperor.
"Oh that's a sling shot, you put a marble on that leather patch, and squeeze the patch from the outside, you pull your hand back, still holding onto the patch and when your arm feels tense, let it go." Zhuzhen replied. "You can have it if you want."
I picked up a marble and did as instructed, as I pulled back the elastic, I said, "Thanks, I like it." And then let it go sending a marble flying into the back of Yuri's head. He looked back at me growling angrily as Zhuzhen laughed, "Hey, you're a natural at that kiddo!"
[ Alice ]
"It's all your fault!"
The words rang about in my head as the image of my father's death replayed in my head.
"It's all you fault."
Bacon's voice cut through me like a knife as a guilty pain wrenched at my innards.
"You should've died a long time ago, but your parents ran away from wonderland, to the realm we couldn't get you from unless you were willing, just to stop the inevitable…"
I looked at him, his cold blue eyes cut into me like a freshly sharpened knife, the words he just spoke driving their way into me like daggers, was it true what he said, was I from wonderland?
"They thought that if you were bethroved to the King of Diamonds that you would live because he would protect you…"
What was he on about, the 'king of diamonds' my fiancé, I couldn't make sense of it, who was he…
"But what they didn't expect was that his Family, his father, and his father's father and so on like him were demons!"
I continued the staring contest with Bacon as he went on.
"That family curse was a perfect tool to get him out of the way, once you were gone, I carried out the curse, in case of your return, so that you would not be with him and to think it worked as well!"
Yuri! I was engaged to Yuri? I didn't quite know what to say… "Tell me what he really looks like." I choked as Bacon sneered with pride. He and Dehuai had power over me, this wasn't a wonderland, this was hell. They could do as they pleased with me, I just hoped Yuri had forgiven my misjudgement and was coming to save me soon.
[ Keith ]
Margarete and I listened intently as Zhuzhen and Yuri and Halley told us of what was about to befall our homeland. Margie looked at me, "Well, what do you think Keith? Should we help 'em out?"
"Yes." I said, looking at my wife with a serious look on my face.
[ Koudelka ]
There wasn't much time, I could feel it. Edward did his best to look after me as the amount of energy on the psychic plateau increased. I could feel the seraphic radiance and I could feel it being born inside of Alice's soul. She was about to be drained of her soul energy in order to bring forth the powerful beast. King Yuri had to hurry, otherwise the woman he was destined to marry might not be able to survive. I knew it was too late to stop the ritual, it had already begun. I just hope that they all can stop the seraphic radiance from killing all who inhabit here…. But then again, Yuri's father, King Ben had tried the same thing Yuri was about to do and lost his soul, Zhuzhen had killed Ben as Yuri found out earlier today, as Ben had made Zhuzhen swear that if he lost his soul to the seraphic radiance Zhuzhen would kill him to protect Yuri and his mother. Yuri was heartbroken, but after a while he calmed down, and then as they had tea here, Yuri had let Zhuzhen know, he may have forgiven him, but what he did was not forgotten.
[ Keith ]
Margarete was quiet the whole journey, I could tell she wasn't very willing to help Alice because of the way she had screamed at her earlier, but I had to admit, she had deserved that bit of an argument. Meanwhile, I had decided to help Yuri and his friends out because of what was at risk here. I often took a quick peek at Yuri's face, he was lost in thoughts that he couldn't clear away, he was probably wondering why he felt the way he did about Alice even though according to him they had only met for five seconds in which she attacked him with a book. He was hard to read, but the black scales were making it harder than it once was.
[ Margarete ]
"Hey sonny boy get the head out of the clouds!" I said briskly, "We're saving your girlfriend here!"
Yuri snapped his head back to me with an upset look on his face. "She's NOT my girlfriend. That damn woman keeps telling me to save her and hurry up in doing so!"
Halley was about to attack Yuri with his slingshot when Keith changed the subject. "So, found out a way to break the curse?"
"No." Came Yuri's sad reply. He was really upset over something. I personally thought it was love at first sight for him and he's moping around because she wasn't into demons.
"You like her don't you." I decided that I wasn't going to let him out of the subject.
"…..No I don't…." Yuri's hesitation in the answer was what I was looking for, he did love her only he was too embarrassed to admit that he fell for a complete stranger. "I don't even know her full name."
"It's Alice Eliot." Halley said, "She was over at my house for lunch yesterday."
I looked at my husband nervously, "What do you think love?"
"Madame, you think too highly of me, I am still a little rusty." Keith replied, "I think we should have brought god boy along for the trip, we could have used him as fodder. Or even an escape goat."
I smirked, I didn't know anyone who knew James that liked him. Even Elaine wound up detesting him because of his obnoxiousness. Even Ireland disowned him as he had dissed the plans for the rebellion in 1916.
[ Alice ]
It hurt so bad, the sucking feeling runing through my body, I felt my life force fade away as the tower was beginning to overflow with my energy. I began to sob as I began to wonder…was Yuri really coming to save me after all?
I'm beginning to regret jumping to conclusions, and after hearing about all the good Yuri had done in his life, I realised that he was a good man, and not a demon as they made him out to be, and now as I hung slowly becoming limp on a rack I began to sob heavily as I called out his name. Yuri I'm sorry, come and save me…
"It's such a shame you have to be wasted like this, if you weren't the key I would've had quite a lot of fun with you dearest." Dehuai had a sick sense of humour, and that feeling was enhanced by him stating, "Well maybe I could play with you after you've done your job.."
Play with me? This narcaleptic bastard had to be killed, before it was too late!
=End chapter six
Well that was different wasn't it, and as for Alice saying Dehuai was a bastard, put yerself in her shoes there and then see if you would still be all cute and non swearing! As for you nt liking it, if you ask sweetly, I will change it using any helpful tips you put in the reviews. It was a long one wasn't it? Well, that was a little mre serious than I expected it to be, and I was quite shocked to realise I had done something completely different to what I had planned! The next chapter or maybe two will end part one, then it may take a while but I will start part two!!! Trust me, if this isn't making sense to you now, you'll never get the plot!
