Chapter 4-

He couldn't believe what he just heard. It was impossible! No! Julius thought to himself. It is possible. That b****** is crazy.

Julius and the new hatter were running at full speed towards the Jokers' Prison, determined to save Alice from the insane jacka**.

"Almost there!" Leo panted heavily.

That was when they were stopped by a rabbit man with a face that had pain written all over it. "Hello Julius, Leo," Elliot March mumbled.

"You!" both the clockmaker and hatter spat.

Elliot sighed. "I really have nothing against you, Leo, I'm just following orders. However, if it wasn't for him wanting to kill you, I'd just get rid of you here and now mortician."

Julius's face twisted into one of hatred. He took a step forward, reaching for the wrench in his pocket, but a hand on his shoulder stopped him. Looking back Julius saw Leo with a completely straight face for once in his life. "You go get Alice, I'll deal with my subordinate."

With that, Julius ran passed Elliot, and out of the forest.

The hare smirked. "Do you really think that was a good idea, sending him off all by himself?"

"I knew you'd just let him go, since your orders are to make sure Julius gets to the prison. Besides, it's something that he has to settle himself, just like I have to settle this matter," Leo sighed. He really didn't want to have to play the general during a war, but that was part of his role as the hatter involve. Still, Leo thought while taking out both of the feathers from his fedora, I guess if Julius succeeds, I wont have to for long.

At the Prison

"Alice!" Julius shouted. There was a groan from a cell just a little ways out in front of him. It was her. "I'm coming!"

The sight that he saw was so gruesome that he nearly lost everything right there. Alice, his beloved foreigner, was chained to the wall. A large amount of blood still dripping from the gash across her forearm.

"Well, well, well. It seems you weren't stalled for long with Elliot. Let me guess, the new hatter, whoever he maybe, it taking care of him now?" a voice called out from the shadows. Out stepped a man with wild black hair and a worn out prison uniform. There were dark red marks around his wrist from the cuffs that he had broken out of. If Leo had never told him, Julius would never had recognized the man in front of him.

"Dupre."

In the Forest

"Nice… trick… you have there. I should've known… you'd… be strong," Elliot huffed. He was down on one knee, and his arm pointed the gun at Leo shakily.

This was a Leo that he had never seen before. He stood there, not a single emotion found on his face, his eyes completely clouded and blank. Two twin swords found in his hands, one of which was holding up the hare's chin. He was serious himself now.

"Yet you do know it isn't everyday that the teacup shatters."

Well, maybe not quite.

Elliot rolled his eyes. "You are a walking riddle."

"Yes, well, I do take pride in fine craftsmanship. It isn't everyday that a flower sings, too," Leo snorted, still confusing the living daylights out of the man before him.

"I'm sorry, but this is the day where the new hatter falls dead."

The sound of the gunshot had all the birds in the vicinity flying away.

About two chapters left, and the drama's almost at it's peak. XD