Goodbye Little Tails...

Glast Heim Castle, a few days after Chapter 1

"ALICE!" The Owl Baron boomed in the guest room of Glast Heim. The place was destroyed long ago, but then again, everything in Glast Heim was destroyed. The Owl Baron floated around impatiently as he waited for his servant to come. This room needed to be cleaned up before the Dark Lord came for his weekly meeting…

The girl in blue came running up the steps leading to the guest room, panting as she clutched her broom in her right hand and the other hand held a small kitten. The Baron looked disapprovingly at the kitten, but decided there are more important things.

Alice gave a low bow, and the Baron proceeded with his briefing.

"I want you to clean up this room as soon as possible. The Dark Lord will be coming for another meeting with me and all the other Owl Dukes. I don't want him to find this place a bigger mess then he last left it. Understood?"

"Yes master, I'll get it done right away," Alice replied with a slight bow. She immediately went to the far corner and swept away the dust away from that area. The Owl Baron watched for a while, then was about to leave when the sounds of a cat stopped him.

"MewMew" the cat Alice was holding started mewing, as if it was in need of something. This greatly irritated the Owl Baron. For such a puny little creature, it was causing a great ruckus.

"Shhh, please don't cry…We could go back to my room when we're done here…" Alice desperately tried to calm Little Tails down, but the Owl Baron has already taken notice of the little feline.

"Who is this, Alice? I do not remember giving permission to bring visitors into my kingdom," The Owl Baron demanded. He was very strict about people not following his rules.

Alice desperately tried to find a good excuse. Oh no…, Alice thought to herself, I can't let him take away Little Tails from me…oh someone help me-

Help…Yes there was an excuse!

"Um…he's…uh, my new helper, he helps me clean up, like my Sage Worms…"

Please make him believe it, Please make him believe it…

The Owl Baron stared at the little ball of fur in Alice's arm. It was obviously a lie, the Sage Worms were more then enough help. But this gave him an idea. If there was only one Alice, then it would take the whole day to clean up the castle.

But if there were more Alice's', then the job will be done much faster. Brilliant.

"Very well. You may keep your servant. And your actions have sparked me a new idea. Meet me in my room after the meeting, will you Alice?" The Owl Baron replied smoothly.

"Y-yes master," Alice mumbled. The last time The Owl Baron called for Alice was to decide what her punishment would be for not keeping the library in order. It wasn't her fault either; the humans who come into the castle have always made a mess where ever they go.

Her punishment was one day in the Glast Heim prison's torture chamber. Alice remembered the constant pain, how the Injustices would use a whip to beat her up, how they would use their many creations to hurt her as much as possible…It was she has never forgotten, even after 300 years…

Alice and Little Tails went back to their room after Alice cleaned up the guest room was spick and span. She still had some time before the Owl Baron was finished with whatever business he had with the Dark Lord. She sat on her bed with Little Tails. Was the Baron going to give her another punishment? Or was it about his new idea he mentioned? All of the Barons' ideas involved hurting others, but they were all great ideas…no matter how painful.

One of Alice's Sage Worms came back to her room and informed her that the meeting was done, so Alice prepared for the worst. She walked down the hallway with Little Tails, passing Carats and Rideworms. Her heart was pounding as she came in front of the Owl Baron's chambers. She could feel her sweat pouring down her face. She wiped her forehead with her apron and took a deep breath. She opened the door and peered inside…

"BOWLING BASH!" The doors Alice peered exploded open, scattering splinters all over the place. Alice flew back onto the wall behind, getting hit by the splinters in the process. Inside the room, she saw the Owl Baron and some of the Owl Dukes battling a knight, an assassin, a priest and two hunters. Another assassin and a wizard lay on the floor unconscious.

Alice was taken away by how the attackers fought her master. The Knight slashed relentlessly at the Owl Baron, brandishing his claymore again and again. The assassin practically flew at the Owl Dukes, appearing right in their face and lets' loose a flurry of attacks from his Jamadhars. The hunters stood at a safe distance strafing the owls' with flaming arrows. The priest cast spells Alice has never seen before, making the attackers invulnerable, faster and more accurate.

Alice watched one of the Owl Dukes fell to the floor, dropping a morning star it was using. The assassin was overcome by greed, and we wanted to pick it up, only to be knocked out by the other Owl Dukes. He screamed in pain as he hit the floor,...with one of his arms detached from him.

One of the hunters ditched her bow, and drew her Combat Knife. She charged at the Owl Duke that slew the assassin and hit it at a weak spot, spilling blood all over the hunter. The other Duke cowered away from the corpse of the Owl Duke, only to meet a swift end as the other hunter shot two fire arrows into its back.

All that was left of the Owls was the Owl Duke himself. He sneered at the hunter without a bow and chanted a slow solemn spell. Lightning appeared out of no where and the huntress lay fallen with the rest of her comrades, blackened and smoking. He dispatched the other hunter with two strokes from his staff, impaling a hole into his chest. He then turned towards the knight.

Alice knew there was no way the knight could defeat the Owl Baron with only a priest to help, she wanted to tell them to run, but the knight did something unexpected…

He screamed a battle cry and his body started glowing red with anger…he wasn't just a knight, he was a lord knight.

His claymore had an eerie white glow emitting from it, and it slashed at the Owl Baron over and over again. Every time he missed the Baron, he got angrier. His footsteps carved into the floor as his claymore was blocked by the Owl Baron's staff. The Owl Baron could not summon enough time to cast a spell. The knights' speed was getting faster with every attack. Then, finally, the Lord Knights' sword hit home. The Owl Baron was effectively decapitated in one hit.

Alice stood horrified outside the hallway. Even the priest took cover outside when the lord knight went into his rage. The knight walked out of the room, looking at the priest, then at Alice. They locked eyes for a moment.

For a long time in years, Alice was frightened beyond imagination. She has never felt so much fear ever since the Dark Lord took her. The lord knights' eyes were glowing red, his face contorted into a menacing look and he was panting and sweating profusely.

He raised is sword in an attacking stance, ready to strike Alice down. But, he was stopped by a sound coming from Alice herself.

"Mew! Mew!" Little Tails pawed Alice's apron, nagging that it was hungry. Alice was too frightened to even stand up to face the threat before her, so she clutched Little Tails even tighter. Tears streamed down her eyes as she prepared to die to protect Little Tails.

The lord knight lowered his weapon and kneeled down in front of her. He Held Alice's chin in his hand, forcing her to look at her.

"Tell me, is this your cat?"

Alice nodded slightly, then plucked up what was up of her courage and said, "P-please…take Little Tails with you, he doesn't deserve to be in a place like this…not with that tyrant...I don't want him…to live my life…"

The priest walked beside Alice and gently picked up Little Tails. Alice held her legs tightly to her chest, sobbing even harder. She has given her friend to a total stranger, murderers, enemies, yet she hoped that Little Tails would have a better life then here with them…to sacrifice so much for a friend, the cost was more then Alice could bear. She hated to lose her friends. Ever Since Glast Heim Burned.

The figure of the lord knight towered over Alice again, with his sword in hand and eyes staring down at her.

"But I still want your apron," replied the he unemotionally.

With those words, he slashed Alice in half, spilling flesh and blood onto the floor in a grotesque mess.

Just at the last second before Alice's world darkened again, she could hear Little Tails' cry for one last time…