Hello. Sorry I haven't updated recently. So I wrote an extra long chapter for you all! :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Heart no Kuni no Alice

I do own Ellie, Veronica, Anita and Debbie.

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Chapter 3

After everybody got off of the bus and got their bags Vivaldi said, "We have assigned everybody targets. The Jokers are included in the target list. So if you would all please come to us we will tell you who you are assigned to. The game will not begin until after we all unpack our bags though."

Everyone abandoned what they had been doing and walked over to Vivaldi. I didn't and went to go get my bags.

"Alice, why aren't you getting your assignment for the game?" Blood said from behind me.

I jumped and turned around. "Because I don't want to play," I said.

"Well it isn't very fair of you to mess up this game for everybody else you know. It's very selfish of you," Blood said.

I frowned. "Fine, I'll go play the game," I said angrily.

I walked over to the thinning crowd around Vivaldi. I was the last person to get their assignment for the game.

"You have to kill Peter White," Vivaldi whispered.

I nodded and she spoke louder to everyone, "If you are in our bunk you will follow us!"

The other girls joined me and Vivaldi and we started walking to the houses.

"Hey Vivaldi, did you assign all of us boys to kill?" Ellie said once we were out of earshot of the boys.

"We were hoping that you wouldn't figure it out this soon," Vivaldi said. "But yes, all of you were assigned to kill a boy. We thought that you would team up against the boys or something."

"That's a good plan Vivaldi!" Debbie said. "So who has to kill who? I have to kill Dee. I really wanted to kill Boris though."

"I have to kill Ace. That should be fun," Ellie said with an evil grin.

"WHOA! Ellie's a creeper," Anita said while Ellie stuck her tongue out at her. "I have to kill Pierce. That should be pretty easy."

"I have to kill Black Joker," Veronica said.

There was a moment while everyone thought this over and then Ellie, Debbie and Anita burst out laughing.

"Hahahahaha that's hopeless! There is no way you can kill him," Ellie managed to say before she started laughing again.

"Poor Veronica she has to kill one of the scariest guys at camp," Anita said calming down.

"So Alice, who do you have to kill?" Debbie asked as she finished laughing.

"Does it matter?" I asked.

"Of course it does! We told you who we had to kill now you have to tell us. It's what bunkmates do," Debbie said.

"Fine, I'll tell you. I have to kill Peter White," I said.

"Oh that's a tough one too. Peter isn't much of a people person," Ellie said.

"Really? He was talking to me earlier before we got on the bus," I told them. This was confusing.

They stopped walking and stared at me mouths opened. Vivaldi had stopped too. She looked surprised.

"White is one of the most stubborn people we know," Vivaldi said. "He tends to keep to himself and he has a strong dislike of people. The fact that he was friendly towards you surprises us."

They thought about it for a minute and then all of them began to walk again.

"How far away is this bunk anyway?" I asked.

"Not too far. It is the most secluded bunk on the girl's side of the camp. This allows us to go and play random jokes on people without people knowing that we left our bunk," Debbie said happily.

"Not really Alice, just ignore Debbie that's what I do," Ellie said. "The reason this is the best bunk is that it is right next to the rose gardens."

"Are the rose gardens really that great?" I asked thinking about some of the pathetic half-dead rose bushes I sometimes see in my neighborhood.

No one answered, they didn't have to. Directly in front of us there was a small reddish house with ivy climbing up the sides of it. Behind it was a hedge just a little taller than me. I assumed it was part of this rose garden they were talking about because it was dotted with red roses.

"See? Isn't it cool?" Anita asked me.

I nodded. Vivaldi opened the bunk door and I went inside. It was like the interior of a house only all of the walls had been removed. Now there was a big pink room with bunk beds jutting out from the wall. Next to each bunk bed there was a unit with four shelves. There were a total number of eight bunk beds and eight shelves.

I went over to a bunk bed and sat down on the uncovered mattress. The other girls were already unpacking their bags and putting things on the shelves. I opened my bag and began the long and painful job of unpacking.

I was the last one to finish unpacking. Vivaldi and the others were talking in the open space in the front of the bunk. When I joined them they were talking about what they should do with the other bunks.

"I think we should leave them be. It makes no sense to use them when we do not need to," Veronica said.

"Veronica that's just stupid! We should totally use them!" Debbie said.

"It doesn't really matter you guys," Ellie said.

"We do not care what you do with the extra bunks," Vivaldi said simply.

"Well you could always use them to talk on. So instead of everyone cramming on one bed to talk you could use all three," I suggested.

They all looked at me. "That is a good idea. We agree with Alice, this argument is over," Vivaldi said.

"YAY I WIN!" Debbie yelled loudly.

"That was really loud Debbie," I said covering my ears with my hands.

She smiled and said, "What I lack in size I make up in volume."

"We can see that," Ellie said.

"Hey-," Debbie started to say.

"We are hungry, now hurry up. We will not wait for any stragglers," Vivaldi interrupted.

Ellie, Anita and Veronica left. Debbie looked at their backs outraged and ran after them. I didn't know where the mess hall was so I ran to catch up.

"AAALIICE!" someone called next to me. Before I knew it someone was hugging me.

I looked at the person who was hugging me, it was Peter.

"Peter get off of me," I said feeling uncomfortable.

He reluctantly let go of me. Because I was suddenly attacked by Peter, I had lost sight of the other girls in my bunk.

"Thanks a lot Peter. Now I don't know where my bunk is or how to get to the mess hall," I said annoyed.

"I'll take you there then!" Peter said with a grin as he took my hand.

He dragged me to the mess hall in silence for a few minutes.

"So Alice, who do you have to kill for the assassin game?" Peter asked.

I had completely forgotten about that. I have to kill him.

"You're dead," I replied.

"Huh?"

"You're dead. I had to kill you Peter. Now I think you have to tell me who you have to kill," I said.

"Oh, Okay! I had to kill Veronica. I'll help you kill her! This is great! Now I won't have to kill you if I ended up getting far enough in the game," Peter said happily.

"Um thanks?" I said as we approached a large building.

"Here's the mess hall," Peter said.

Suddenly the door in front of us burst open. Out of it came a furious Black Joker dragging Debbie by her arm. He glared at us and dragged Debbie around the corner of the building. He started yelling at her and Peter stepped in front of me and opened the door.

There was a large room with tons of tables in it. In the middle of the mess of tables there was a salad bar. Peter took me across the room to where my bunk and his bunk were sitting.

"Oh look Peter found her!" Ellie said.

"We were worried about you Alice," Vivaldi said. "We are glad that Peter brought you here."

"There is a first time for everything I suppose," Anita said.

Peter glared at her and went to sit at the table with the other boys.

"Well? Did you kill him?" Ellie asked loudly.

"Ellie the boys can hear you," Veronica said.

"You had to kill Peter?" Ace asked. "Man, that's a hard thing to do. Sir Peter is very scary you know."

I sat down next to Ellie and Anita and replied, "Peter is dead."

There was silence at both tables. Black came back with a very upset looking Debbie.

"Guys, I'm dead," Debbie said sitting down opposite me. "I can't believe it, I refuse to be the first kill of the game!"

"Lucky for you Alice killed Peter before Black killed you," Veronica said.

"So what? First kill of the game, second kill of the game, same thing. It still makes you a loser," Debbie said slamming her head on the table.

"Don't do that Debbie. You are going to kill your brain cells," Veronica said.

"That doesn't matter if I'm dead," Debbie muttered.

"Hello all!" said a man with a auburn braid in an ugly yellow shirt.

"Hi Gowland," Ellie said.

"So you're the music teacher this year," Boris said hesitantly.

"I sure am! This is going to be a fun year isn't it guys! I even wrote a new camp song for us all to sing. You'll hear it after the announcements are made," he said walking away.

"All in favor of making Ellie get her guitar say 'aye,'" Boris said.

"I second the motion!" Debbie said suddenly becoming animated again.

There were general murmurs of consent. A man with navy blue hair was standing nearby. He was with a man with grey hair and an eyepatch. The grey haired man smiled and approached the table.

"Hello Alice," he said. "It is nice to finally meet you."

"Hi," I replied slightly annoyed that everyone seemed to know my name.

"Of course everyone knows your name. You are the only new kid in this age group. My name is Nightmare and I am the director of this camp," the grey haired man- Nightmare said.

"Lord Nightmare, you should go and introduce yourself to the camp and make announcements," said the man with the navy blue hair.

"But Gray, I want to stay with Alice," Nightmare said.

I noticed then that they also had weird eye colors. Nightmare had eyes that were the same color as his hair. Gray had yellow eyes like Boris did.

Gray sighed and said, "Hello Alice. My name is Gray, as you have just heard. Lord Nightmare unless you would like to go to the infirmary-"

"NO! DON'T TAKE ME THERE! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE INFIRMARY! THAT IS ALMOST AS BAD AS A HOSPITAL!" Nightmare yelled.

That got the attention of everyone at my table and the boy's table.

"Hey Nightmare, still sick are we?" Anita said.

"You have a sick mind Anita," Nightmare replied making a face.

That confused me. "What?" I asked.

"I am an incubus, so I can read minds and go into dreams," Nightmare said.

"And he is sick. He randomly vomits blood," Anita warned me.

"Not all of the time Anita. I am the camp director and I demand respect!" Nightmare said.

"Go away you f****** bagworm. Move your sorry a** to the stage and make your f****** speech so we can some food in this joint," Black Joker said venomously.

"Don't call me that! Just because I was the caterpillar in that show last year does not make me a-"

"Bagworm move your sorry a** so we can eat!" Black snapped at him.

Nightmare glared and left. Gray followed close behind.

"Nightmare likes to skip his duties and hide," Ellie explained standing up. "Vivaldi will you make sure that there is food for me. I have to get something I left in the bunk."

"I'll go with you!" Ace said standing up.

"I guess I should go to. Knowing Ace you won't make it back here until tomorrow at the earliest," Julius said with a sigh.

"Try to hurry back you three." White Joker said nonchalantly.

"Sure thing White," Ellie said before she led the boys out of the mess hall.

While I wondered what they were up to, Nightmare began to talk to the camp on a little stage towards the center of the mess hall.

"Hi. So this is going to be a great summer. Everybody can eat now," he said.

"That was the worst speech I have ever heard in my life," Debbie said.

The doors on the side of the mess hall that I had not noticed opened and people came out with trays of food for each table. I took a plate and some utensils from the center of our table.

They brought out the food, which was pizza, and left. I began to eat the pizza. It was pretty good considering the thing I have heard about food that some overnight camps serve.

"Nightmare needs to take public speaking lessons. That speech was terrible, if you would even call it a speech," Debbie said.

"Debbie, you know as well as me that Nightmare isn't the world's greatest public speaker," Anita said to Debbie. She then turned to me and continued, "Some background information: Nightmare gets nervous in front of crowds. You would think otherwise with the way he acts though."

I nodded and said, "Where did Ellie go anyway?"

"Didn't you hear her? She went back to the bunk because she forgot something," Debbie said matter-of-factly.

"I feel like there was some ulterior motive to that," I said.

"Maybe she is going to kill Ace," Veronica said in a quiet voice.

"Nah, she loves him too much to kill him," Debbie replied.

"What are you talking about?" White asked pleasantly.

"We were discussing a book in which a farm girl becomes a princess but is still in love with a farm boy, who dies." Debbie began to say. "The princess gets kidnapped by a swordsman a giant and a smart guy who try to kill her and get thwarted by a pirate but it turns out that pirate is-"

"DEBBIE! Don't ruin the story what if he wants to read it?" Anita said.

"But that would be inconceivable!" Debbie replied.

I knew what book they were referring to and when they all began to laugh I joined them. White was looking at us amused while the other boys looked confused.

"Isn't that a girl book?" Dee asked with an expression of horror on his face.

"It was written by a man," I said.

They didn't look like they believed me but before they could comment on it, Ellie and Ace came back. Ellie was carrying a guitar shaped case with her in one of her hands.

"ELLIE I LOVE YOU!" Debbie screamed.

"Shut up. People are staring at us," Ellie said.

"Where's Julius?" White Joker asked.

"Ace killed him when I went into the bunk to get my guitar," Ellie said.

"That doesn't answer the question," White said in a tone that sounded slightly threatening to me.

"Ace saw him leave. I only found out he was dead after it happened," Ellie said.

Ellie sat down and started eating as fast as she could. She had walked in at the near end of dinner. Ace stole the last piece of pizza at his table from a very angry Boris. They finished eating just in time for the people to come out of the doors on the side again and clean up the tables.

"Attention everyone!" Gray called from the stage. "Gowland our music counselor has written a song for us to use as the camp song this summer. So please listen and be respectful."

"Hello everyone!" Gowland said lifting up a violin. Before he began to play I noticed that a lot of people had their ears covered. Just then an ear splitting screech filled the room. Gowland had begun to play and now I realized why everyone else was so bummed out by it. His lips were moving as though he was singing but the screeching of his violin drowned out his voice.

"GEEZ, ARE YOU TRYING TO BLOW OUR EARS OUT MARY GO-ROUND?" Blood yelled from behind us. But somehow his yell was amplified so that everybody in the room had heard it.

The music stopped abruptly. "His name is Mary?" "What kind of name is that?" I heard some of the other people at the other tables say around me.

"Attention all campers: DO YOU WANT TO ROCK?" Ellie said pushing Gowland away from the center of the stage. She was holding her guitar.

Boris cheered which caused everyone at our two tables to cheer.

"Wow, tough crowd," Ellie said.

She then started to sing what sounded like a camp song. Some of the older campers joined in as did all of the counselors. When she finished that song she sang a song about a campfire song. All it did was spell out the words 'campfire' and 'song' over and over again. However, everyone seemed to know this song and they all sang along to it. Everyone seemed to be having a good time.

She led the camp in singing two more songs after then and then ended by taking her guitar and pretending to slam it on the ground like some rock stars would do.

"You're all a great audience! I'll be here all summer!" Ellie said waving to the cheering campers.

She left the stage and Gray came back on dragging Nightmare by the collar of his shirt.

"Um, thanks Ellie? Please remember that the woods and the rose garden are off limits at all times as they always have been. And please note that starting this year the Kissing Rock is also off-limits. And that's it you can go now," Nightmare shook off Gray and fled from the stage. I could see a small piece of paper in his hand that he must have been reading from.

Everyone got up and went back to the bunks. When we all reached the bunk Debbie said, "BUNK MEETING!"

"That means we have to talk about something," Veronica said.

"Ellie why didn't you kill Ace earlier?" Debbie asked.

"I didn't want to," she replied.

"Oh great another Debbie vs Ellie fight," Anita said.

"I'm not sure is you've noticed Alice but Debbie and Ellie don't get along very well. They tend to argue a lot," Veronica explained.

"You guys shut up. Ellie you should have killed him, you're such an idiot sometimes," Debbie said.

"Butt out. I can kill him when I want to Debbie," Ellie said.

"You love him. That's why you can't kill him," Debbie said.

"I DO NOT. He is just my friend Debbie you know that!" Ellie said.

"I saw you two on the last day of school. You were going to kiss him," Debbie said.

Ellie blushed as everyone turned to look at her. "Well you shouldn't be stalking me Debbie. I don't involve myself in your personal affairs do I?" she said hastily.

"Everyone get into your pajamas. We are bored of this fight and we want to go to bed. We are turning the lights out in five minutes," Vivaldi said impatiently.

I went to my bunk and got changed. The other girls were fighting over sinks in the bathroom. When I finished getting dressed, they all left the bathroom so I had it to myself. When I walked back into the bedroom, I saw White Joker standing in the doorway. The other girls were changing in the back room probably because they saw him coming.

"Ah Alice, have you seen Julius?" He asked.

"He isn't in with the others?" I asked.

"No. Could you tell Vivaldi to keep an eye out for him?" he asked.

"Um sure," I replied.

He smiled and left. When he was gone I went to the back room where the others had been hiding.

"He's gone guys. He wanted to know where Julius was," I told them.

"Yeah I wonder where he went," Ellie said.

"Maybe Ace snapped and killed him," Veronica said solemnly.

We stared at her. "What? Ace does like violence," she said

"Only in video games," Ellie said.

The lights went out then. They all said good night and hurried back into their beds. I got into my bed, and as I fell asleep I wondered what other crazy things are going to happen tomorrow?

Was everyone in character? I feel like I went out of character for some of them... Please tell me if I did.

Thanks for reading!