Chapter 5-

It rang in his ears, in his whole body. The impact shook him like a leaves during a hurricane. Leo clutched his shoulder, looking down at Elliot in horror.

"S***. Missed," the hare mumbled, getting ready to fire the next shot. However he failed to see both of his opponent's swords closing in around his neck.

At the Prison

"Bravo, bravo! You recognize me," Blood Dupre snarled.

Julius reached behind his back for his wrench. It was strange, the clockmaker always avoided these kinds of situations, but this time he had charged right in. How could one girl have changed him so much? Still, he didn't care, for he was Alice's and always would be. He'd do anything for her, even if it meant dying.

The newly faceless Blood smirked. "Do you really think you can fight me one on one?"

A slight twitch of the eye was all Blood needed to know that Julius was conscious of the fate he set for himself.

The ex-hatter continued. "You know you're the reason I'm like this. Which is why I will take no pleasure in anything except for this!" With that the broken chain around Blood's ankle turned into a gun, which he kicked up and fired. He was too fast, Julius had no chance to dodge, and got hit in the leg.

In pain the clockmaker backed into the wall, falling on his knees. However he was able to muster the strength to turn his wrench into a gun and shoot Blood's foot. "You b*****!" All plans lost, the faceless raised his gun, pointed at Julius's heart, and prepared to fire.

He never got to, for a mysterious bullet dug itself into his arm.

"Watch out for the sparrow coming in to land." It was Leo, smiling like the madman he was. With a flick of his wrist, his gun twirled in the air and landed back in his hand, formed into a sword matching the one in his other hand. "Long time no see, cousin."

Blood's face darkened. "Leo Grant."

The hatter smiled. "Good, you remember me!"

"Yes, and I remember what you did," the former hatter nearly screeched. "You ran away from home when you found out you were going to be the next hatter. With you gone, I was chosen to become the role holder, and was forced to go against my sister."

"Now you're back to your old self though."

"You call this my old self?"

Leo flinched, not expecting Blood's voice to pitch so high so suddenly.

"It's truly thanks to you that I'm stuck in this mess! If you had just excepted your role, then none of this would've happened!"

Two gun shots echoed through the prison. Leo deflected one with his sword, sending it back at Blood, but the other he let his it's target. It scraped his heart, and he fell to the ground. The same happened to Blood who could not dodge the second bullet in time.

Both cousins lie there, awaiting their death, when Julius whispered, "Tell him why, Leo."

Leo smirked. "I deflected only… one bullet… because I wanted you… to kill me. I also couldn't… let you kill Alice… and Julius. I wanted you to… kill… me because I knew I hurt… you… which hurt… me."

Blood groaned, "You truly are a… confusing… idiot… until the end."

Then all fell quiet. The only sound that could be heard were the footsteps drawing closer and closer.

"What the H***!"

Julius turned his head to see a shocked Black in the doorway.

One chapter left, and now everything lightens up, almost. Haha~