Hello people, and let me just say, this is not my last chapter, okay? But this is my longest one yet. So, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own any Alcie in Wonderland.
"What are you?" Alice said, half to herself, taking a few steps back as the Jabberwocky continued to grow.
"You tell me," The beast growled. "Or have you forgotten me already?"
"Stayne," Alice whispered. "You-you're-"
"You aren't the only one that Jabberwocky blood can change, champion," The monster spit out the world like it was in impolite thing to say, the scum of the society. "And you won't be the only one who will die under my power!"
The creature stepped forward, causing the earth to shake and Alice lost her footing. She gripped her sword in hand and then the beast was charging forward. Quickly, she jumped out of the way, but she couldn't find her footing in time and ended up falling to her knees.
"Oh, did you trip?" The monster taunted. "Here, allow me to help you."
Suddenly, Alice was being lifted into the air, by the monster's tail. She struggled fiercely, but it was proven useless at he threw her, and she flew across the field, hitting the very same pillar that lead to the stairs she'd run up to defeat the monster last time. Slowly, she tried to stand, but her legs were still weak and she couldn't, so she laid on her side in pain.. Everything hurt, a lot and she still needed to fight. The monster screamed, and Alice watched as it turned quickly to face her, no it was staring at something behind her.
"Get up," A voice told her, and Alice rolled over and looked up at a figure that was standing at the stairs, holding a sword in hand and decorated in silver armor, similar to Alice's.
"Aunt Imogene?" Alice whispered.
"Get up, Alice." Her aunt repeated, her brown curls flying around her head and shining in the little sun escaping from the clouds. "Now."
Alice nodded, steadily standing up on her knees and then unsteadily to her feet. She turned back to the Jabberwocky that was making its way toward her, and she felt her body go cold. "What do we do?"
"We fight," She replied in a sure voice. "We do what we need to."
Alice took a step toward her aunt on the stairs when a shadow flew over her and then the jabberwocky stood at the stairs, right behind her aunt.
"Aunt Imogene, look out!" Alice screamed as the jabberwocky blew its countlessly colored fire at the two women. Quickly, Alice dove out of the way and hid behind the pillar as it crept towards her. Where was Aunt Imogene?
"Come on, Alice." The monster growled, and Alcie felt its breath brush her face. "Come out; come out, where ever you are."
Alice took a deep breath and ran from the other side of the pillar. From this side she saw the monster's side and she jabbed her sword inside it, sending a spray of purple blood all over her.
The monster roared with pain, turning towards her and swatting her with his mighty tail. It nicked her just barley, sending her sliding over to the edge where she nearly fell over, but she grabbed the edge of it and stood. She wasn't backing down again. She looked around. A bit higher and she would be at the place where she'd cut of the jabberwocky's head.
Quickly, Alice ran up the rest of the stairs, jumping over the monster's tail as he turned to snap at her, but she was still faster. She stopped at the top of the stairs, staring down at the ground where more people fought. She tried to scan for Irisa, but she couldn't find her limp friends form in the writhing bodies.
"God luck finding your friend," The monster breathed. "I doubt you'll be able to find the dead unless you are one of them." Quickly, Alice turned and slashed a the monster's eye, stunning it briefly, but soon enough for her to jump on it' neck, and hold onto its scales as it twisted and turned, desperate to get her off. It bucked up, and she flew, holding her sword over her head as she started to fall, ready to throw the blade down and slice through its neck once again. As she got lower, her moment came….
And the monster's head turned up, and grabbed her in its jaws throwing her to the ground.
Alcie fell hard, hitting the ground with a loud thump hat echoed through the world. Her vision went blurry, immensely so, and she looked up as the monster loomed over her.
"See," He told her, his head was right above her, and under that Alice saw his deep chest. "You can't do anything twice. You weren't supposed to come back either, but you still did. And now, you will die."
"No, Stayne." Alice whispered, her fingers gripping tightly on the sword. "You. Will. Die."
She sat up and she threw the sword, it flew straight and true and landed right inside the monsters beating chest where his heart was. The jabberwocky flew back, its massive claws trying to reach for the sword but it slipped easily through his talons. With a wild glare he stared at Alcie who was on her knees now, staring at Stayne with a slow confidant smile.
"Look, Stayne." She said sympathetically. "It seems you do have a heart after all."
"You may think this is over," He screamed, diving for Alcie one last time. "But I won't go alone,"
He collapsed then, his legs finally giving out and his entire being fell to the ground, two feet away from Alice. Finally, Ilosovic Stayne the Knave of hearts was dead.
Then, fighting seemed to stop around Alice. They were acknowledging the death of their leader, or their enemy Alice thought.
"No!" Someone shrieked, their cry echoing throughout the battle field, and Alice jumped up. That was Iracebeth's voice. But how did she come to the battle field? Another scream echoed throughout the battle field, another scream Alice knew all too well.
Then she was running, quickly, she was pushing past people all gazing in the other direction. She forgot everything, the battle, the monster she'd just killed, worries about Irisa, all she was focused on what was one thought. Not her. Not her.
Finally, she stopped, pushing through the finally line of people and ending at the wide circle hat was built around a completely separate battle.
A battle that had been going on for years.
Imogene lay on the ground, Imogne standing above her, her sword at her neck. How had she gotten the sword, Alice might never know, but what she did know was that her aunt was pinned down by a mad women.
"Iracebeth," Mirana called, taking a step forward into the circle. Please, you have to put down the sword."
"You just couldn't leave well enough alone, could you?" Iracebeth whispered, but not to her sister. To the woman pinned down on the ground. "I sent you away, because you loved him, and he never stopped. And as long as you lived, he always would be."
"Iracebeth!" Mirana yelled.
"You are a disease that needs to be rid from this world." Iracebeth whispered raising her sword high. "And I'll be the one to do it."
"No!" Alice exclaimed, and two things happened at the very same time. Iracebeth plunged the sword down into the chest of Imogene, and then, she froze. Her hand went up to her own chest where a small silver handle peaked out from her white dress. Red soaked through the pale fabric, and then, her eyes flew up to the person who had thrown the dagger that had slain her.
The white queen's hand was still out stretched from when she'd thrown it.
The red queen fell back, and hit the ground hard while Alice ran into the circle, sliding down to her knees and grabbing her aunt's shoulders.
"Aunt Imogene, wake up." She cried, shaking her aunt by her shoulders. "Please, you have to wake up. Alice. Alice, wake up."
Her aunt coughed, her nearly closed eyes peering up at her youngest niece. "Alice…." She whispered.
"Yes," Alice whispered. "Yes, I'm here." She looked up. "Someone help us. Please, get some of the venom from the Jabberwocky, or…..or something."
"Alice, Alice shhhh." Her aunt whispered, and she looked back down at her aunt. "Don't worry about me."
"But…" Alice whispered. "You're…"
"I'll be fine," Her aunt continued, coughing slightly, Alice looked away, as more blood spilled from Imogene's lips. "I'm….I'm ready."
"No," Alice whispered, leaning in as tears started to flow. "I'm not. You can't go, not now. I, I just….we…"
"Alice, child." Imogene whispered. "You need to let me go. I'm ready….I'm an old woman, it's my time. I'll be fine."
"No," Alice denied. "It's not your time, we can….we can save you. Make you better. Please, just hold on." Alcie looked up at the group of faces, they were all shedding silent tears, and Alice's eyes met with Margret's, her own sorrow mirrored in her sisters'. And she knew that there was nothing she could do.
"Alice," Imogene's voice was quiet now.
"Yes?" Alice said in a voice just as quiet.
"Tell me a story," Her aunt pleaded. "Please."
Alice nodded, taking a deep breath. "Once upon a time, there was a girl…her name was Alice. She fell down a hole and into a world with…strange creatures and beauty like she'd never seen before."
"What kind of creatures?" Her aunt asked.
"There was, a dormouse." Alice whispered. "And a cat who disappeared. And a butterfly who smoked a hookah, and a white rabbit who was always late and a hare who loved tea. And there was a queen, with white hair and a mad hatter who made the most beautiful hats." She took a deep breath. "And there was a prince. A beautiful man who fell in love with a beautiful girl."
"Did they live happily ever after, Alice?" Her aunt whispered her voice barely above a whisper.
Alice nodded. "They lived happily ever after,"
"That's a nice story…..." Her aunt's words were getting softer and she took a deep breath. "I can see him…"
"Who?" Alice asked.
"I can see him," Imogene's face twisted into a smile. "He's waiting for me. Like he always has. Always,"
Alice smiled. "I love you."
Imogne looked up at Alice, with a light in her dying diming eyes. "As do I." She stopped, looking around the group that had assembled from the battle field, her very last motion. "Thank you," That was her aunt's finally words, then, her chest stopped breathing, her heart finally stopped and the life finally left her. She died with a smile on her face, and Alice let all the tears finally fall. Two Alices went into the battle that day, and only one left the battlefield.
Is anyone else really sad? Because I am. I'm gonna miss Imogne, or Alcie or whatever he name is. But at least she got to be with Phelan in the end, so yay. Review please?