I tried to include real games here but I also have some adaptations from console games like: Kingdom Hearts: Glitching from the Darkness; Sonic Hunters; Legend of Zelda: Warriors of the Triforce ad Star Fox; Movie adaptations like Alvin and the Chipmunks and Smurfs and some totally created by me like Crazy Castle, American's Spy, Dragon's Hunters and The Curse of the Witch. Real games or adaptations can have only cannon characters but some can contain OCs from me or from anyoe else, even the OC isn't mine I'll let you know.
Well, I haven't update for so long, it was because I was busy with The Magical Core and The Secret of the Codes, plus a not posted history a friend asked me for, sorry.
O don't own Wreck-It Ralph or Once Upon a Time or even Alice in Wonderland, but I do own mostly of the characters in this history, in special Melody, Katheryn and Nicole.
After the ambulace came, Crystal went back to sleep.
Now she was fully wake up and ready to do something, besides her head being still bandaged, she was ready to find something to do with her life untill she was allowed to leave the city again.
"Alice!" She called her new friend. Found her siting alone in the front yard, looking down the street.
Crystal let herself take a good look at it. It was a pretty calm place like she never expected see. It would be a perfect place to live if there aren't the circunstances of her arrival.
So she looked in the direction Alice was looking and spoted a clock tower i the middle of the square where she found Felix last day, but why was Alice so curiously looking at it? Just because it was stoped at eight o'clock? Well, she had to admite, eight hours and one minute was a curious time to a clock to stop.
"It's curious." Alice commented, like reading her thoughts. "It never moved, since first time I saw it. But so, when I came back with you last night, it moved. One minute, but it moved."
"And it means..." Crystal insisted.
"I dunno." Alice shrugged, so stood up and turned to face her friend. "It's just curious. Os, where are you going now?"
"If you're trying to find a excuse to me to stay, no, thank you. I really loved you brought me here and took care of me whe I was ill, but I have to keep moving."
"No. In fact I wasn't going to ask you to stay. Not so much room at here by now, but you know, if you haven't a place to stay, I know the people who can help you." Crystal raised a questioning eyebrow.
"You see, there are this friends of mine who runs a little apartament to girls, from twelve to eighteen, who haven't anywhere to go. In fact, I think the trio are the only ones who live at there, maybe with one or two other girls, but I'm sure they would love give you a room."
Well, anything was best than nothing. And who knows, her time here could be a good time for the first time in her life.
"All right. So, where live your friends?"
They were almost in the White Castle's garden when they were cut on their patch by a green light. Turbo made a turn around them an screetched by a stop in front of them. The first thing he saw was Sonic.
"What happened?" He asked worried.
"As you ran to save the sprout, Sonic and I were caught in an explosive trap the bad Turbo armed." Clarion explained.
"I see. Will he survive?"
"I think so. But how about you. Why are you here?"
"Oh yeah, we were attacked. We won of course, in fact very easily, but Hopper and the sprout disappeared during the battle." The green hedgehog explained nervous.
"What now?" Lecia asked.
"You two take Sonic back to the castle. Turbo, lead me to crime scene." Clarion said.
"Hey, you isn't too strong to a battle!" Lecia protested.
"I can handle more than you think with just one hand Leci." The redhead smirked.
"No. Lecia is right." Tamora told her daughter. "Take she with you two. I'll take Mr. Speed back to the castle and soon join you."
"Lecia would last less than me in a battle." Clarion protested.
"It's an order Clar."
"Oh, fine." Clarion sighed a little angry, but without daring to argue with her mother. "You can come along, but you're by your own. Lead us Turbs."
"I'm on it Firehead!" He smiled.
Alice leaded Crystal to a building almost on the end of the street where Crystal had met Jason an Terry.
"I know the Dead End isn't the better place in the city, but I can't thiink another place where you can get a room and food for free." Alice said apologetically. "And the Warrior's hiddeout isn't a bad place, and sincerely I think it have the best neighborhood in the whole city."
It was a blue, five-floor building and seemed almost new when compared with the houses around.
"Seem empty." Was all Crystal said.
"Not so much girls live in there, it even seems empty." Alice told, pushing the doorbell button. It rang for a short time, so the two waited, around two minutes and no answer. Alice pushed the button again and this time hold it for almost a whole minute but still no reply.
"Seems your friends aren't home." Crystal teased.
"But they should." Alice protested, crossing her arms.
"Oh, of curse they should, because no one have nothing better than be home in a beautiful Saturday morning." Crystal replied sarcastical.
"Wait! You said Saturday?" Alice turned to her.
"Yeah, it's when we are."
Alice facepalmed.
"Oh, I forgot it. You're right, they aren't home."
"So where they are?"
"At the school, of course."
"School?! On Saturday?!" Crystal asked.
"Yeah, the twins are teacher in the school. Melody is sport teacher and Katheryn is music teacher. They have an entertaining project on Saturday. Began to the school kids, so the parents were allowed to watch or join and soon it was open to everyone who wanted to take part. You really need to see it." Aliced said excited.
They reached the Party Garden fast enough to the girls, but really slow to Turbo's taste. One thing he just hated was have to slow down.
Lecia just stared at the place too shocked to move. The table, usually full of cups, teapots, food and hapiness, was now broken in half, laying on the ground with the broken porcelain. The usually green, fresh grass was now yellowish and burned here and there. And worst, had no sign of her friends anywhere.
"Where are them Turbs?" Clarion asked, looking around confuse.
"At the Hatter's house o course." The hedgehog smiled.
Once again Alice leaded Crystal, this time to the school's gym, that was crowded by now, every little party of it with people doing the most variety kind of thing, since board games to friendly fights.
"What's exactly happening here?" Crystal asked.
"I told you Crys, just something different to people to do at Saturdays, sports and games of any kind." Alice smiled.
"Yeah, except for eletronic games." Crystal mumbled.
"Well, we haven't..."
"Any kind of eletronic game in this city. I know. I know. Felix told me it yesterday."
"Oh, ri... Wait! Who's Felix?"
"Just a guy I met yesterday. I didn't know his true name, but Truffelio think he's Fix-It Felix Jr."
Crystal rolled her eyes, scanning the area, just to find Truffelio, siting in a corn, alone with his book. "Why is he just reading alone?"
"Who?" Alice asked, so followed her new friend's gaze. "Oh, Truff... He haven't friends in this city. Well, in fact a few, but this ones even have another friends who don't like him. All because of that book and this thing that he think everyone is a character from a game. Everyone thinks he's crazy. Well, mostly. Some, like me and my friends, think he's just a young boy who need somthing to believe in." Alice said all this in one breath.
"And who are his friends?"
"Well, that two strange girls, Sara and Penelope I think, and Terry. Terry shall be at the hospital, or at home, and the girls are random, so he's alone. You can go talk to him if you want, but first we need to go talk to my friends. C'mom!"
And with that, she grabbed a reluctant Crystal to the crowd.
As they entered the house they noticed it was also a mess, like was the garden. Someone seemed to be searched something, but they couldn't say if something was missing, but something very wrong had happened there. And were was everyone?
"Tawny! Hopper! Delfine!" Lecia called.
"Who?" Clarion and Turbo looked at her confuse.
"It's their names. You didn't knew it?"
The two denied. They had no idea the Mirror World characters had other names than their in-game ones, based on the Alice in Wonderland characters. In fact, the whole mirror side of Crazy Castle was based in Wonderland.
But one thing they knew: Whatever happened there, Lecia's friends wer missing, and the Silver Sprout too.
Alice pushed her to where a woman, around her twenty-two or three years was trying to beat a boy, aparently at Crystal's age.
The woman had short, rebel, red hair and light green eyes. Was dressed in a pink top, black shorts and boots. She seemed more like one of the teens than one of the adults.
"Why are them fighting?" Crystal asked.
"Training. It's just for fun, nobody end up hurt here."
"And the mayor aproves it?"
"In fact no, but even he can't argue with Katheryn's logical. And how he can't put a good reason to close this place at Saturdays, he have to deal with us."
They waited they to finish the battle. It didn't took so long. As soon as the woman take concious of her friend's presence she made a sign to the boy to stop and walked to them.
"Hi Licy!" She greeted happily. Looked like a little girl. "And who's your friend?"
"This is Crystal. The one in the motorcycle, I told you about."
"Jason's friend? Hi, I'm Melody. Crystal... I like your name. Sounds sweet and powerfull. Who chose it?"
"I don't know. I don't know my parents." Crystal sighed. Why everyone should remember her that?
"You know, we never received outsiders in Gamelot. You're the first."
"Yeah, I already heard it."
"I think you're here because you need somewhere to stay while in there, right? We have a good place in the Dead End. Kristhyn, Nicole and I would be happy to have you as one of us. We wouldn't expect you to pay for your stay."
"No, I want to. As soon as I find a temporary job, just while I'm forced to stay here."
"So, we have a closing time of ten o'clock, don't be late. Dinner is at seven if you want. I see you in one of these times. Anything else you need just tell us an we'll try to help. Now I think you have something else you need to do."
"I wanted to talk with Truffelio."
"The book boy? Who are you on there?"
"I don't know." Crystal lied again. "Wasn't it she wanted to talk about.
Ignoring the two she walked to where Truffelio was sitting.
"Hi Truff!" She greeted, trying to be nice.
"So, it's what you do when you get angry with someone? Try to kill yourself?" He asked, without take his eyes away from the book.
"Hey, I came to say I'm sorry. I shouldn't have reacted that way but..."
"No. I understand. I can't force you to believe something you don't want to. It would be hard to me to, if was me on your place."
"But still, I overeacter. The accident was... Well, an accident. I met this boy, Jason, and he offered me a ride to leave and..."
"How you didn't believe me, you didn't heard my advice and tried to leave. It isn't proof enough to you?"
"Coincidences aren't proof of anything."
"At least the boy is fine?" Truffelio asked, closing his book.
"Not so much. He was taken to the hospital today. Just for curiosity, who's him?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Not sure."
Silence. Crystal had no idea what to do now. She had decided she wouldn't break the boy's beliefs to don't hurt him, but how pretend to believe something you want far away from your life?
"Well, pretending I believe you about the whole curse thing, what now? How we can break it?" 'It's just a game.' The girl told herself. 'A big, real life RPG.' Yeah, keep that idea on mind could help.
"I still don't know. I was thinking in try to get them to remember." Truffelio suggested, finally looking at her.
"Look, everyone believe you're crazy and I don't want them to think I'm too, so how we do it?" Crystal crossed her arms.
"I still don't know. Maybe they need a proof. Something that help them to remember, like with you." "Try to throw them through the border?" She suggested with a playful smile. "Crys!" He protested. "Fine, fine. Just kidding. Try to kill the whole city isn't in my list of things to do. So, what we do now?" "I don't know. But let's try to begin with the easiest. Your new homemates, the Stone trio."
"Why them?" "Well, you saw how they are. They're like younger kids, easy influenced by anything." "And who are them? In the book, I mean?" "Kristhyn is the Protector of the Forest. She's from the future, her spririt connected with the past. She know everything. But like other Mirror World characters, she's based of someone else, that isn't a Alice character, and I don't know this someone."
"And about Melody?"
"Melody is the Mirror World version of the Mad Hatter. Oi think I don't need to say more."
"No. She really looks like she's crazy. And the third sister?"
"Half human, half machine, she's the heart and soul, not just from the mirror world, but from the whole game."
"Crazy Castle." Crystal muttered to herself. She remembered now. I should fight the final Boss to reach the Heart of the game and plant the silver sprout to restore the Mirror World after it's corruption. She had never reached this part of the game before.
"Okay. But changing the subject, how about your father? Turbo, isn't it? How he got bad?"
"Everyone thought first it was because of Roadblasters, but in fact, it began before, with a virus from the first version of Labyrinth of the Nightmares. Some years ago, the virus was broken, but years after it got back, and it was when the curse begun."
"And you need it broken, to get him back and try to get definitive ride of the virus?"
"It's the plan."
"All right, I will help."
