The girls start to run into the kingdom, pushing the tomato along with them. Their tears are falling past them, darkening the white brick as they try and outrun the dragon. Lili slips and falls, the dragon stops in her face. Lili cries and whines at her almost certain fate.
"Tell-tell Vash that I've missed him. Tell him I'll be okay," she chokes out. Victoria can't stand her giving up. She dashes towards the small girl and grabs her arm.
"Run!" She screams at the others. The dragon growls again, staring at the young girl in Victoria's arms. Victoria runs with the crying Lili in tow. The gates to the white kingdom were slowly closing, with Antonio, Antoinette, and Bella already inside. Victoria dashes under the slim opening, and hears the Jabberwocky smashing into the gate. She laughs and clutches onto the shocked Lili. Lili begins to laugh too, burying her face into Victoria's neck. Bella helps both of them up and hugs them both. They look around the kingdom. In the distance they see a pearl white castle, that actually seems to be glittering and glowing. Victoria looks at it in awe. Bella elbows her and walks forward.
"I know where Levi lives. We can go to the white queen tomorrow." The crew nods and follows Bella into a small, brown shack and knocks on the door. A young man with dark circles under his eyes and limp blonde hair answers the door.
"Whaddya want?" He spits.
"It's me, Bella. Levi, it's your sister!"
His eyes brighten and he takes her in his arms, lifting her off the ground in a tight hug. She giggles at Levi's smile.
"I've missed you Bella," he exclaims as he puts her down.
"I've missed you too Levi. These are my friends, Victoria,Antoinette,-"
"I remember Lili. Lili Zwingli, Vash Zwingli's sister. Her parents dead after a Red Raid. Damn shame, good people they were."
Lili's face turns from happy to distressed. She begins to cry into her hands.
"They- they died?"
Levi rubs the back of his head,"Uh yeah. Sorry 'bout that."
"Can we come in Levi?"
"Sure, it's a bit of a mess though," he warns, stepping aside.
They all walk in to the musty aired and filthy shack of a house.
"Well it matches the unkempt look perfectly," Victoria mutters as she walks through, careful not to step on anything suspicious. Levi picks up a few shirts and other things and smiles.
"Sorry about the mess again," he smirks. It's pretty dark in the room so Bella flips a switch near the door. A blinding white light fills the room and shows that it's not as dirty as Victoria thought. It just has dark splotches on the ground that look like things. She sighs a breath of relief. She turns back to see that Lili is still crying. She walks over to comfort her, patting her back softly and whispering words of relief to her.
Levi's voice breaks the slightly serene silence,"Well, it's getting dark. I have some beds in the back so you may use them."
Bella nods and leads us all back to a damp room with 3 beds. The beds are unmade with blue sheets piled in the corner of the room. Bella grabs a blanket, wraps it around Lili, and lays her in the bed softly. She smiles and kisses the small, sleeping girl's forehead.
"Poor thing. Little doll, coming back to her brother and finding her parents dead."
Bella shakes her head and falls asleep on the middle bed. Me and Antoinette decide to share the last bed.
"Good night Antoinette," I whisper before I fall asleep.
"Sweet dreams Victoria," she whispers back. I smile at myself and close my eyes.