The ace of cards started it. It was the joker who won.
Alice Is Dead, the sixth(?) installment.
It was the red queen who envied. It was the white who had.
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So my children. I have recently found out there's a font called Hobo Std, and it is now the epic favorite of all epicness. I'm sorry for not updating in forever, but I had major writers block that could stop pink elephants. :) I tried this one, guys, so I made it extra long (for longer reading time/So you won't track me down and cut me in the night)
And remember, since the next few chapters will be extra-special, for a limited time if you review you can get a response from the Ches/Chase, Gill (The-mad-hatter-of-ghetto-land), Angela of Wonderland, The Red Queen (winky wink wink), The White Queen, or any wonderland-er of your choice (unless you prefer the reals, then just say the real Chase or whatnot) There are no limits to questions, and I'll answer them at the end of chapters, or have one chapter dedicated to questions. Love, Weird Is Beautiful
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Lead by two muscular men in red suits with diamond-shaped markings on the front of their light red tuxedos a man dressed in white clothing with a bandage around his middle walked quickly. With every step, their feet left red dust which evaporated into the air. They did not seem happy, and the hallways were red and lined with photos of many people in royal clothing. Few captions were under the paintings with things like "The Queen of Spades" and "The King of Hearts". The lighting was dull and made everything seem eerie, but they payed no mind.
The big door at the end of the hall opened widely with a big clang. The room was large, and at the far end a large throne atop stairs there sat a small girl with pink hair. Her clothing seemed unique, a mixture between red Lolita-style dresses and red strapping heels. She seemed unpleasant, like something bothered her, but she smiled when they came in none the less. She waved her painted red fingernails at them but didn't get up. Instead, a tall man who stood beside her with purple and pink hair in a purple suit stepped down and shook the two mans hands, the man in the middle just stared at the small girl, fixated on her appearance. She was truly a sight to behold, but more like a ten year old then the twenty year old she was.
"Ah, Mr. Linux and Mr. Small! How nice to see you again, and you've brought company! It seems like it's been a long time, hasn't it? And yet it was just a fort day you were here, guiding the young pretty girl Mistress Luna here by hand, isn't that right, your majesty?" The purple-tux man had turned to the little woman on the throne with a smile and looked for a pleasing look from his Queen. She didn't return it, and instead waved him away.
"Save your breath." She sneered at him and he backed away to his previous place beside her. She looked at the three men before her, and waved away the two escorting the middle one and they left as quickly as they came. The purple man looked at his queen and kneeled before her, and she smiled at him. She looked at the only man left, and narrowed her eyes.
"What brings you here, Master Jenji?" She said to him, obviously expecting the worst. Master Jin kneeled and bowed his head, and the purple man just looked at his queen and wondered. The queen stared down at Master Jin with a disproving look, something terrible must have happened for the all-knowing Master Jin to have traveled so far from his usual podium guarding the door to wonderland. Something... dastardly.
"It's not good news your majesty. Well I have some good news, great news, and even greater news! and bad news, badder news, and the baddest news you'll ever hear, your Diamondness." He said quickly. Luna didn't seem to get it, and looked confused for a moment. He stared at her and feared the worst, but she caught on.
"Well tell me the good news first." She said, standing up as her dress fell a little over her knees and sighed. She tapped her foot and began to pace, keeping her eye on him at all times. He just stretched his collar and gulped, Queen Luna was a merciless woman who cut the heads of the people she detested.
"Well the good news is, I can sense the white queens power, and she's draining quickly!" He said cheerfully. Queen Luna clapped her hands excitedly.
"Well if that's the good news, the great and greater news must be utterly fantastic!" She jumped a bit in her red strappy heels, and sat again. The purple man just looked at her and smiled sadly, muttering under his breath "The kingdom is fucked..."
"Quiet, Julius!" Jin whispered back. Luna seemed too overjoyed and daydreaming to notice their exchanged looks and whispers.
"The great news is the red sword is being rejuvenated bit by bit!" Master Jin clapped his hands and frowned. Luna squealed happily and stomped her feet. She said something like the possibilities are endless, and everything was falling into place for her and the kingdom. It seemed as if all other thoughts were thrown from her head and Jin felt hot.
"The greater news is that The door to wonderland is finally sealed! No in, no out!" Luna's smile widened brilliantly.
"Good, good! Those runaways that escaped earlier are still out there, I presume?" Jin nodded his head and Luna's smile dropped a bit. She tapped her fingers on the chairs arm and looked at Julius, the sunlight shone through the red painted window and the room got brighter. Maybe it was just Luna's feelings that made the room seem hotter and lighter? No, no. It's just Jin's imagination.
"And the bad news? Get on with it Jenji!" (Yes, Jin's name is Jin Jinjin Jenji)
"Ah yes... well, I'm not sure how to put it, but..." Luna leaned forward in her chair and narrowed her eyes again. Julius looked down at the floor to the side to avoid making eye contact, Jin gulped and stretched out his collar. A bead of sweat ran down one side of his face and Luna didn't seem pleased.
"Alice has returned."
"WHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAATTTTT?"
The scream rang through the castle walls and past the courtyard. People/things stopped on the street to listen, and birds flocked from the royal garden past the sky and into the darkness to the east. People at once looked down and quickly moved by to get things, some laughed and joked, but to hell if she came by in her red carriage drawn by, you guessed it, red horses. The only thing she had that wasn't red was the kingdom, and her golden wheels on her red carriage.
"HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN? YOU USELESS CATERPILLER! I'D HAVE YOU BEHEADED! CONTINUE YOU USELESS SWINE! THIS IS WHY I STATIONED YOU THERE!"
Jin tugged on his bandages and frowned at the memory. Luna didn't seem to notice and hissed.
"Ah... the even more bad news is... She met the Cheshire cat-" Luna glared and opened her mouth to say something, but Jin said quickly "and-the-mad-hatter!"
Luna screeched, it was unholy and sound through the entire kingdom, once again. The castle keepers shivered and continued to do their work soundly.
"THE BADDEST NEWS?" Luna questioned loudly. Julius had his ears covered, and loosened them a bit to see what he had to say. He instantly regretted it.
"She's on her way to the white queen. They're at the valley of Illusions."
Luna's claws raked the arm chair off of the throne and she opened her mouth to scream, but nothing came out. She just sighed, and as soon as she frowned, an eerie smile crept across her face while she laughed.
Jin instantly felt the need to get up and run, and sat up. Luna continued to laugh and Julius got nervous. Jin began to turn and leave, and got two steps to the door before she yelled again. The only difference?
"GUARDS!"
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Something warm painted her face, but she didn't feel anything. Just fear; that nervous pit in her stomach like everything was okay... and yet everything wasn't. Opening her eyes, she stared at the back of a protective figure, and on his head the black hat with the single white ribbon on it, and an axe protruding from his arm. The attacker- the self-proclaimed "other Luke" looked somewhat shocked... and pleased. Luke's face twisted in pain, but maybe the Red Queen wouldn't punish him... he did get someone this time, after all. Maybe she would forgive him from running, maybe he could live happily again without feelings of hate in his little cottage his father had made for him, and his mommy would come back and they could live happily ever after...
And then he felt pain, and felt the ground rush up to meet his head.
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"Gill, what are you doing?" Angela screamed. Thousands of small black spear heads jutted out from the peaceful body. In books, they always tell you they looked peaceful when they die. Their face is calm and sometimes a smile is still there. It doesn't. They just look... dead. Luke's face was pale and his lips were blue, his eyes were closed calmly and he didn't move.
"You called upon me with every fiber of your being, did you not?" He whispered, the axe still sitting in his bleeding shoulder. The hatter sank to his knees, and Angela took a step forward. Something stopped her, she wanted to touch him and hold him and cry and tell him it was alright. She felt like a mother protecting her baby, he looked so vulnerable sitting there sadly. Her feet refused to move.
Slowly, one by one, she urged herself to the sitting figure, and layed a hand on his hat. And just like that, he was gone, with only the large spot of blood in the grass to remind her of what was left.
It's not alright.
It's never alright.
And just like that, she broke out into a run.
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"I see. Luke has gotten him, I knew he was good for something, don't you remember? Before I killed his mother? You remember Julius, I know you do. Sad too, pretty little thing she was, so small and pale with those big cat like eyes and skinny hands. You'd remember, don't you?" Luna's painted fingernails raked the top of the crystal ball sitting in her lap as she and Julius watched. Julius remembered very well, actually, but he still denied it.
"Oh please doll, you remember. You held her bleeding body in your arms as you cried so hard, I thought you'd never stop. In that shabby little cabin in the middle of the woods, so dark and dreary, I loved it!" Luna clapped her hands and Julius looked down at his feet.
His mother was murdered for having a child and keeping him away from the queen, it was a beautiful little boy she called "Luke" because of his hair. He had dark hair, like the middle of a lake. He remembers only because he'd never seen anything like it. He remembered her bleeding body in his hands, blood splattered on his face as he himself looked down at her with tears and a sad smile. He remembered the bandana she wore around her neck. He remembered placing it on his head, and smiling, and honestly he was going to take the baby for himself. Luna stopped him. Luna stopped him from caring.
"I don't know why you cried so much over her, useless thing she was." Luna said meanly. Julius blocked the memory from his mind, and tried to ignore her words, working surprisingly well.
Luna got up and threw the ball on the floor, shattering into a thousand pieces. It surprised Julius and he jumped, watching silver liquid spill out of the ball like a bleeding wound. He looked down at the puddle, and he watched it lazily as he dozed off into his own personal paradise.
"But she will be done for soon enough." He said.
And Julius felt something. Felt what he did not feel for many centuries. Felt what a dead man could not feel.
Caring.
Suddenly, he felt he didn't want Angela to die. He didn't want her to run away from everything. He wanted her to win and he could be free from that retched woman who calls herself LUNA. He could be with his first true love, the one he could love forever and never let go.
His one and only Candace,
The white queen.
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Julius Cesar's Dress To Impress Emporium. He was a lowly designer, not loved by many for his outrageous designs and cast from society. Until one day, Luna Taylor showed up. The Red Queen. She had taken to his outfits, she wanted him to work for her. He worked pleasingly, living in a small attic on the top of the shop the poor designer got lucky, being payed four times the money he usually got, and soon he was in riches, but Luna soon got greedy. The designer had gotten popular with people, and the red queen was unique. She could not be perfect if everyone was like her, then they'd all be the same, and she would be compared to the lowly. She was esteemed, what would the other kingdoms say if they saw her like that? She took him for herself.
In those times the White Queen and the Red Queen were in a feud, it was the beginning of the end. The White Queen's power was restored and in full health, the Red Queen was also powerful. All throughout the castle is bustled and was busy with excitement, and talk of The White Queen. It was lively throughout the land. The most talked about was their beauty.
"Ah, lass, but the White Queen's beauty outshines the highest! Pretty eyes like a million diamonds, hair as smooth and beautiful as silk, and clothes so fine they're said to be made from angel's wings." The cook said one day. Julius sat patiently, talking with everyone and listening in. The cook was Yolanda, her apprentice was stirring the pot with two hands and gripped a spoon in his tail stirring another pot behind him. He was a beautiful fellow, went by the name of "The Cheshire Cat".
"I have to agree there ms. Yolanda." He said to the short pudgy woman standing on a stool, unable to reach the counter.
"Oh, But madame, do you not realize our queen is gorgeous herself? Pink hair to her waist always so soft, eyes that have so much emotion." The Asian man beside him said who went by the name of Master Jenji.
"Candace is so much more nicer though. Our queen is just... her." The cat said lowly. Master Jenji quickly put his finger to his lips and looked at the newcomer Julius.
"The walls have ears, mister Chase." Master Jenji said quietly. Everything was quiet for a long time after that.
"Julius, who do you say, lad?" Yolanda said loudly bellowing.
"Uh... I've never seen the White Queen before." Julius said softly.
"Oh lad! Yer missin out, boy, ya hear? Gorgeous. Utterly gorgeous." She whispered the last part.
And so brought on curiosity.
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Sitting on the floor, he held Ms. Luna's crystal ball in his lap, wondering the consequences of getting caught. He was just looking, he'd return it soon. It wasn't permanent or anything, he was just... looking.
Whispering lowly he said "The White Queen" and instantly became paranoid. What did Master Jenji say about the walls having ears?
The ball's water swished around and curved into many different pictures. Smiles, a child's laughter, two swords with patterns on them, Then a fuzzy picture of a white room appeared, and cleared up quickly.
A woman with long blue hair and a white dress sat in a blue chair. She looked peaceful, looking out the window. Then she stirred, the door opened apparently, but all was silent. He didn't know what they were saying, but the woman turned to the door. He didn't see her face as it was covered, but a female with a red hood walked in and bowed quickly. The woman looked down at her visitor and the girl on her knees looked up sadly. A few sounds were heard, like 'Kathy' and 'Death' and 'You can stay'. The woman tapped the girl on the shoulder and she stood up, bowing her head. It appeared as if she were asking to stay.
The woman walked closer. Julius cringed involuntarily, as Luna would beat someone whenever that happened, but the woman did not. She walked closer and raised her arms across, embracing the girl happily. The girl hugged back, and tears formed in her eyes.
They released, and she turned to the door to leave happily. The woman turned back, and looked straight at him. He gasped a bit, and wondered if she knew he was watching, but instead looked at the most beautiful face he had ever seen.
A pale perfect face with dark blue eyes looked at him, with the most perfect mouth and sweetest hair he could ever imagine. The woman smiled, and he took this to be the queen. The Queen Of White was actually looking at him and smiling.
The Queen turned away and headed for the door, opening and shutting it behind her. She left the room, and Julius was left to contemplate.
And the obsession began.
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Angela's heart hurt. Her side hurt, like she was being ripped apart in little pieces, and she stopped to wait and catch her breath. Flowers underneath her didn't talk, the sky did not clear up from its usual green-ness and worst of all, she just felt more lost and pathetic. She killed her love. She killed him by being stupid, and the only thought in her head was "Why couldn't it have been me"
Dust swirled around in front of her and the cat appeared looking at her with a smile. His tail flicked out and touched her face, but she pulled away. The cats frown appeared, and the only thought in her mind NOW was "How could he leave?"
"You left me with an axe murderer?" She said softly. Chase strained his ears and smiled again. He walked around her like a predator and Angela felt... easy. Too vulnerable and quite frankly it scared her knowing she could be killed at any second. She collapsed to her knees and decided if she would die, she had a good run.
"Not my fault babe. Orders are orders." He said quickly as his hands reached out to her. She looked at it and didn't move.
"I killed my love." The cat frowned as soon as she said 'love'. Wasn't she... his? Well, she would be his, soon enough. He had charm and class, or so one of his 'stalkers' said. Charm and class... enough to win the fabled Alice over? He'd be passed down in history books! Alice's lover. Wow.
"He's not your love. He's a perfectica, remember?" Chase said quietly as his tail whipped back and forth sadly. His back arched as he looked at her, suddenly sad then angry then sad again. Angela was his and Gill knew. GILL KNEW and he took her from him. They established that fact many years ago, on Angela's 5th birthday...
no, no, no, NO! This wasn't right... they were supposed to be in love right now, getting married where she'd stay in wonderland with us. Wonderland with me and not that pathetic excuse.
"A perfectica that I think I was falling for." Angela retorted. Chase's world spun out of control; his mind went funny and he felt sick.
"Chase... Chase? What's wrong?" her voice chimed like bells in his ears. He smiled slowly as his mind went funny, spinning and warping into different pictures in his head. One of 5 year old Angela, sitting on his lap and playing with his ears and laughing, one of 5 year old Angela sitting at the mad hatters tea party as cups sang and danced and cheered, as the March Hair and the small mouse gave her hugs and laughed and sang. One of her falling, falling, falling.
And dust turned to dust, and Chase melted away into the air, whispering something along the lines of
"Kiss me again Angela Whiles, while I hold you in rays of sunlight and you can be mine..."
Angela looked around the air for the voice's owner, but it sounded like it was coming from everywhere.
"Chase? What do you mean, kiss you again? Chase?"
And nothing was heard.
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So. How was it? I especially love this chapter, but it took a TOTAL change. It was originally going to be her waking up in a mental facility in wonderland, brought there by Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Thank you for SO MUCH LOVE AND INSPIRATION, YOU TRULY ARE WONDERFUL!
Au Revior, my dumpling children!
-Weird Is Beautiful