Chapter 7: Elliot Vs. Black?
Alice stretches her arms, shakes her head several times and then takes a deep breath.
"Alright, I'm ready!" she says and leaves her room.
She begins her morning routine, going through her usual route to the kitchen; dodging bullets, running from falling stairs or gigantic rolling stone or getting into random rooms filled with dangerous creatures. Finally, she's arrived at the kitchen.
There's something different and at the same time, scary, when she enters the kitchen.
Elliot is sitting there on the dining table, right beside Boris, who's prepared with his eating tools. Alice frowns, trying to process what's wrong with Elliot, until she realizes his bright, sweet smile and blushing cheeks of excitement.
"Come here, kitty cat~!" Elliot calls.
Alice twitches, feeling her body flinches. "No. Not this again. No, no, no! I'm not a cat!" she hisses sharply.
Elliot flinches in shock. He then frowns sadly and sulks.
"Oh, Alice, look what you've done to him," Boris laughs and points at the sulking Elliot. He's pouting with teary eyes. "How can you say such a thing? At least be gentle!"
Alice gulps, not listening to Boris, but stares at the Elliot who's pouting and looking down sadly.
"I...can't..." he mumbles.
The maid shivers.
'Oh no...cuteness overload...can't...hold...back...'
Five seconds later...
"Hehe, so cute, kitty, kitty...! Hehe, does this feel good? Mm?" Elliot is happily scratching Alice's chin. Her cat ears pop out, her tail is swishing happily, her conscience disappears (along with her honor and shame).
"Meow...purr..." Alice purred and begins to snuggle around Elliot.
Elliot's eyes gleam happily as he eyes her cat ears and tail.
"Alice, be still," he holds her shoulders so they look at each other. Alice blinks curiously. Suddenly, Elliot holds her cat ears down for a while. He then releases them and her cat ears pop up again. His eyes gleams.
"S-S-So cuuute~!" he squeals and hugs her before beginning to scratch her ears.
Boris shivers and shakes his head. "I'm so hungry...and this is just too kinky." He gasps. "And I rhymed!"
~.X.~
"Elliot! Get out of here!" Dee yells and tries to hold the big guy down.
"Alice has to do her job and delivers our breakfast!" Dum groans, trying to separate Alice from Elliot, who's desperately trying to cling to her.
"No! Kitty! My kitty cat!" Elliot cries.
"Why the fuck is the breakfast is taking so fucking long!?" Black comes in, slamming the door open. He then glares at the sight of Dee and Dum trying to separate a sticky Elliot from Alice who's trying to cook their breakfast.
Black stomps at the boys and glares down at Elliot. "You fucking bastard...how dare you be the factor of my hungriness..."
BLAM
And so Black kicked him out of the kitchen. Boris, Dee and Dum gave him a big round of applause.
"Amazing!" Boris praises.
"So cool!" Dee tears up.
"Total badass!" Dum holds two thumbs up.
BANG...BANG...CRACK...CRACCKKK!
"KITTY! KIIIITTYYYY!" An axe is cracking through the door. The kitchen inhabitants freeze in their spots.
Alice twitches, her cat tail tenses up as she watches the axe is being pulled out. Suddenly Elliot stops.
"He...gives up...?" Boris says unsurely, nervously.
BANG!
The door shatters into pieces, and everyone's jaw is on the floor as they see Elliot steps in, holding an airgun with a very murderous face.
"How dare you—uhh..."
Elliot notices that Alice is looking pale, her cat ears and tail are tense, staring at him in fear.
"No, kitty, it's alright...!" Elliot hugs her again in a comforting manner. "It's alright, puss, I'm sorry for leaving you..."
'I'd rather have you LEAVE ME.' Alice screams in her mind.
~.X.~
Apparently, Black isn't the only one who's irritated by this troublesome development. Before long, more masters are coming down to the kitchen with endless complains. Blood just takes a seat at the end of the grand dining table, glaring at the new maid coldly (he's quite traumatized because she actually pushed him off the tower). White comes down because he's bored and wants to join Elliot 'harrassing' Alice. Vivaldi gets straight to the point;
"We should just kill that pest!" she slams her fist to the table.
"Agreed." Dee, Dum and Black nod in synchronize.
"Do not fret, everyone!" Gowland comes into the kitchen, dragging something under a sheet. Everyone turns to him impatiently until he puts the object in the middle of their eyesight. "I present to you!"
WHOOP
"The second cat maid~! Felice!" Gowland cheers, grandly presenting a frigid copycat of Alice Liddell with cat ears and tail.
"Me-ow." The android frigidly says. "Me-ow. I-am yo-ur ma-id. Me-ow. Pet me—"
BANG
"Nooo! My precious android!" Gowland cries and begins to tear up. "E-Everyone hates me!" he then runs out, probably back into his room and not leaving for the entire day, because sadistically...
...Elliot's air gun had blasted the poor android into oblivion.
"What was that satanic creature!?" he gasps angrily, and then clings to Alice again. "Don't worry, kitty. I've protected you!"
"Uh, thanks. I need to turn off the stove, please let me move my hand." Alice deadpans, and suddenly, hisses. "MIAWW!"
"Hee~ Cute tail..." White chuckles suggestively as he pulls her tail and gently brushes it down his chest. "I wonder how this will feel, wrapped around my d—"
SLAM
"I'VE GOT IT!" Nightmare rushes in, holding a bottle of chemical substance. "I've finished the antidote for that medicine! Finally—COUGH, COUGH ARRGH..." he spurts out blood in the kitchen, still holding the bottle tightly.
Alice stares in horror as Nightmare keeps vomiting blood onto the floor.
'Damn, I have to clean that up!' she thinks in disgust.
"Whatever—let's chuck this fucking antidote to that bitch's throat now and get on with our fucking lives already," Black says, ignoring Nightmare's vomiting fit and snatches the bottle in his hand. He stomps towards Alice, who's still being hugged by Elliot, and whose tail is still being pulled by White.
Black glares down at the persistent Elliot.
"Move it, asshole." Black deadpans.
Elliot glares back up at him.
"Fuck off."
Boris groans and his stomach grumbles so loudly. For Alice, it's the sound that marks off a new turn of event.
'More like, the beginning of a bloody war...' she gulps nervously.
~.X.~
And approaching noon, the Heart Trick Castle is once again, turned into a chaotic land. This time, instead of bombs or booby traps, there are wild animals released everywhere!
CAAW! CAAW!
"Fucking crows motherfuckers!" Black growls and rapidly shoots all of them, chasing Elliot in rage. "Give that fucking maid back you fucking asshole!" he roars at Elliot, who's carrying the new maid in his arms while he escapes.
Elliot persistently runs, and then waves his hand. "Jason! Help me!"
Alice freezes when she hears the sound of a raging elephant and gigantic footsteps shaking the castle's ground.
'What the hell!?" Dee and Dum, who join the chase, glares as an elephant runs rapidly towards them from the intersection.
Alice reaches at Elliot's shoulders just for the sake of seeing the damn elephant.
"Wha—there's an elephant in the castle!?" she screeches in disbelief.
Back in the kitchen...
"I don't know what's Black's problem," Boris says, and shoves a spoonful of porridge into his mouth. He swallows. "We still get to eat and all."
Blood scoffs. "Coming down here to the kitchen is really disgraceful. A God does not come down to eat; He's served." He says this calmly and cuts his steak. "I'm the God of Design. I have no time to do things such as coming down to kitchen. I need to work on my designs."
Vivaldi sips her tea, and sets her cup down, glancing at Blood, irritated.
"Hmph. What a silly excuse. We can only assume that you're just too lazy and spoiled to come down here. Unlike you, we simply can not stand having Alice not come and play in our room. Coming out like this once in a while is quite amusing when she is here." She chuckles, and then sighs dreamily. "We must say, her cat appends are most adorable~! Don't you think so, White?"
White chuckles. "Yeah~ So sexy. I've never had sex with anyone using Nightmare's medicine—Never knew that you made that kind of stuff, Nights." He pats the man who's still nose-bleeding.
"Ugh...I'm dying, please don't talk to me." Nightmare weakly says, still holding his nose, already piling up a mountain of tissue.
Boris swallows his food and turns at White. "I never know he's ill."
"He gets like that when he leaves his room so suddenly..." Gowland says nonchalantly, buttering his bread (he's too hungry to sulk for a whole day). "Heh, y'all so wrapped up in your room, you don't even know about your own housemates!"
"Neither anyone here does," White shrugs, chuckling. "I guess there's merit from going out our room once in a while~ We get to know each other, riiiight~? Isn't this just heart-warming?"
Vivaldi and Blood have the same irritated scowl as they glare at White.
"NO."
~.X.~
Elliot drops Alice in his room, and Alice is kneeling, gasping.
"There's...an elephant in the castle..." she hisses. "There's an elephant...THERE'S AN ELEPHANT IN THE CASTLE!?" she screams and pulls her hair.
Alice freezes when she realizes something else; the animals in Elliot's room stares at her as if she's crazy.
A panda. A lion. Tiger, polar bear. Penguins. Bone-crushing boa. Anaconda. Monkeys. Chimpanzees. Orangutan. Gorilla. Baby elephants. List goes on.
And then, she looks at the ground.
It's dirt and grass.
She glares ahead again.
An oasis?
Trees!?
Snow cliff?
"This is not a room!" Alice exclaims. "This...this is...this is...WHAT IS THIS!?"
Her screams echoes through the 'Savannah', making the animals stare at her even more curiously.
"Alice, kitty, you can live here now with your new friends!" Elliot cheerfully sits beside the girl, who's on her knees. "They are my friends! The tigress is Lizzie. That cute bone-crushing Boa is Fernando, the white diamond-back snake is Oscar. That lion is Leonardo...and the penguins are Josephine, Joseph, Johnson and Johnny...and..."
Alice stares at Elliot as he keeps introducing all of his animal friends. He looks really, really happy and gentle whenever he's mentioning his animal friends. Unlike the other masters, Elliot have 'friends', despite they're not humans. When he finishes introducing his wild animals to her, he then realizes her stare, and frowns awkwardly.
"Do you...hate me?"
"Huh?"
"I drag you around...and I smell like animals...Are you freaked out to know that I'm friends with wild animals...?" he asks timidly, looking away.
Alice laughs nervously. 'I've done freaking out fifteen minutes ago, especially when your elephant runs in the castle.'
"Ugh, how do I say this...? I'm starting to get used to your antics—like all of you here," she explains. "There's not much I can do right now. I owe the King for taking care of my family from the yakuza...so I have to return the favor and accept my job here, I guess," she sighs with a sad smile.
Elliot stares at her with a sad but touched frown.
'She really believes that her family is hiding from the yakuza...*sniff*...'
"A-Are you mad at me?" he asks, and she stares at him in confuse. "I don't want your cat appends to disappear...But my selfishness is making everyone angry..." he sighs and sulks again.
Alice doesn't have the heart to scold him and can't help but hug the big cutie.
"No, no, rather, because you slow me down, everyone comes down to eat together in the kitchen, Elliot!" she tries to cheer him up and pats his head. "You're really helpful, Elliot, thank you!"
Elliot looks really surprised, and then his violet eyes begin to tear up. "N-No one ever says I'm helpful..." he sniffs and turns to face her. "Y-You're so kind, Alice...! I think I'll still like you without your cat appends...Is...is that okay?"
Alice's turn to be taken a back slightly.
'Is this a confession? Is he asking me out? Nah, no, no, no, Alice, don't be over-dramatic. He's just this silly, cute big animal-lover. Aw, if he looks at me so cutely like that, how can I say no!?'
She grins and pinches his cheek. "Of course, I like you too. You're cute!"
"A-Alice..." Elliot smiles happily.
"Eh?" Alice flinches when she feels her maid outfit is tugging her.
"...? Is something wrong?" Elliot asks.
Alice stands up out of her conscience. "Uh, I think...a master is calling me?" she asks to no one, and suddenly, her body turns and begins to dash. "Sorry, Elliot! Gotta go!"
Elliot sighs. "Guys...I know her cat appends are cute, but I like her too even without those...but still..." Oscar slithers to Elliot. The teen blinks. "Eh? Oscar...you think she's cute too?"
Oscar nods, and turns to Lizzie, who roars gently.
"She is...but you think she's too cute with her cat appends?" Elliot asks.
The penguins squeak and nod altogether.
Leonardo roars angrily. Elliot flinches in his spot, his eyes wide.
"You think...we should protect her cat appends, then!?" his eyes gleam in determination. "Then...then...we have to save her (cat appends)!"
~.X.~
Black glares at Alice who's jumping over a trap and rolls to dodge the bullets before finally standing right in front of him.
"What took you so fucking long!?"
"Elliot." Alice deadpans.
"Whatever, just fucking drink this shit already." Black grumbles and shoves the bottle to her hand. "This is an order."
Alice begins to unseal the bottle. "Whoah, Nightmare sealed this too tight...hold on..."
Dee turns to Black. "Why are you so insisting this anyway, Black? Do you think her cat appends annoying that much?"
"That fucking wild chicken Tarzan is dragging her down and makes my fucking breakfast late," Black grumbles.
"But she can still cook, and all you have to do is sit in the kitchen," Dum says this casually. He pauses, and then realizes something. "Unless...you're bothered about how Elliot is clinging all over her?" he grins.
Black twitches and glares at the twins, who are grinning ear to ear. His face starts to heat up.
"Why the fuck would I be fucking bothered about that!? I'm bothered about going to the fucking kitchen when this bitch's job is to bringing my breakfast into my room!" Black begins to relentlessly deny the twins.
"Ooh, are you planning to do something in your room with Big Sis~?" Dee's turn to tease.
"I fucking am not!"
"Uhh, what is wrong with this seal? I should be powerful enough to open this!" Alice sighs and begins to observe the bottle. "Huh? Unseal with tears. Hey, Grumpy!"
"Don't call me names, fucking bitch." Black deadpans and snatches the bottle. "Unseal with fucking tears!?" he glares at the twins. "You fucking brats. Cry." He orders.
Dee and Dum frowns at his unreasonable order. "Why are you ordering us around!?"
Black growls and glares again at the bottle. "That fucking Gottschalk always giving weird stuff—what the fuck is this?" he finds an additional print. "If there's no tears around, unseal with blood."
Alice flinches when the boys begin to glare at each other. Feeling there will be a sudden gun-war, she thinks fast and remembers something.
"Wait, I know! Nightmare vomited blood in the kitchen." She snatches the bottle back. "I'll go unseal this, be right back with your breakfast, Grumpy!" she dashes away.
Black twitches with slightly red face. "D-Don't call me fucking Grumpy!"
"N'aww...Alice gives cute nicknames..." Dum teases.
"I'm jealous~ I want a cute nickname from Big Sis too..." Dee grins.
Black turns to glare at them.
"I'll fucking kill you shitty brats."
~.X.~
Alice returns to the kitchen to find the other masters are still eating. She can't help but think that they're so slow at eating, but then distracts herself to her goal; the blood on the floor.
"Ah, here I am!" she cheers and walks to the pool of Nightmare's blood.
"Hey, sexy kitty," White calls her. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to unseal this bottle with blood and drink it, and get back to my job." She casually says, ignoring White's nickname for her. Alice drops blood on the seal, and it begins to disintegrate.
"Did I just cough blood for the sake of the plot..." Nightmare weakly says.
Blood rolls his eyes. "Hopefully this will restrain that silly Elliot March and you'll return to deliver breakfast to my room again."
Alice turns to him with a straight face. "I'll shove you off a tower again."
The designer flinches, and Vivaldi smirks in victory.
"Anyway, this is taking too long to disintegrate," Alice sighs and sets the bottle on the dining table. "I think I'll clean up the blood while I'm at it." She stares at the mountain of tissue. "Nightmare, do you need more tissue?"
"Yes, please. And some cranberry juice, pleace...I'm starting to get really anemic..." Nightmare weakly requests. Alice begins to tend his requests and mops the floor.
"Hey, Nightmare," Boris says, curiously staring at the bottle. "How does that antidote taste? Is it delicious?"
"Don't touch it." Nightmare deadpans and protectively grabs the bottle, putting it further away from Boris and closer to White, who curiously stares at the bottle.
Suddenly, the door is slammed open, and Elliot rushes in.
"Alice, we've come to save you!" Elliot says, and a tiger, a polar bear and a lion make entrance into the kitchen.
"Elliot!" Alice twitches and scowls. "You don't bring animals into the kitchen! It's unhygienic!"
"Th-That's beside the point!" Nightmare screeches. "WHY IS THERE A LION HERE!?" he's hanging onto the chandelier.
The guests on the dining table freeze as the animals are glaring at them.
"Uh...ahahah...so...why are they glaring at us?" White laughs nervously.
"Lizzie, Leonardo, Diego, keep your eyes on them—I'll take Alice!" Elliot says, and the wild animals roars threateningly to the rest of the masters, as he grabs Alice again.
"Elliot! What are you doing!?" Alice yelps as she's taken into his arms again.
"I won't let you drink and lose your cat appends!" Elliot stubbornly says and runs.
Back to the kitchen, the wild animals are cornering the five masters. Blood scowls.
"This is why I despise going out of my chamber." He sighs.
"Bitch! What took you so fucking long—whoa, what the fuck?" Black steps back when the tigress hisses at him. He glares at the bottle on the dining table—completely ignoring the trapped five people in the kitchen—and waves at White. "Oi, can you pass me that fucking bottle?"
"Eh, sure," White throws the bottle across the kitchen, and Black catches it.
"Fuck yeah, where did that bitch go?"
"Elliot took her away again." Blood says.
Black glares to the corridor angrily. "That son of a bitch! When I get my fucking hands on him...!" he growls and dashes off.
"At least do something about us!" Nightmare whines.
White chuckles and pulls out a whip from his pocket. "Relax, the fun shouldn't be over too soon~! Hahaha! So you guys are Lizzie, Leonardo and Diego, eh? Well, nice to meet you," he steps forth and bows to the hissing animals.
His eye gleams, his smile is ominous.
"I'm White. I love animals too~"
~.X.~
Five minutes later...
Dee and Dum rush to the kitchen, they are tied to each other with a leash.
"Where's Black? That bastard—oooh! Is this animal circus?"
The tigress is rolling on the dining table.
The lion is jumping and sitting on the dining chair.
The polar bear is balancing a frying pan on its nose.
White whips his whip. "Lizzie, jump onto the fridge!" he orders. The tigress sits on the dining table and then jumps onto the top of the fridge.
Vivaldi and Boris clap their hands. "Amazing! I've never been to Circus before!" Vivaldi cheers.
"Pretty cool, man," Boris whistles.
"I wanna try too!" Dee and Dum whines. "I wanna ride the lion!"
White chuckles and gives Dum his whip. "Play it safe, kids!" he then rushes out of the kitchen.
Blood raises his eyebrows at the sight of White rushing out. Why is he trying to run after Black and Elliot anyway? He's a playboy...should White be so desperate of having sex with the new maid just because she has cat appends?
White finds his twin, Elliot and the new maid in the grand hall. Alice is holding the antidote bottle, glaring at it with stiff body.
"Bitch, I fucking order you to drink it!" Black yells.
Alice raises the bottle to her lips.
"Alice, I order you not to drink it!" Elliot yells back.
She lowers the bottle from her lips.
Alice is really irritated right now, but what choice does she have? Her maid outfit is getting torn—though she's definitely teaming up with Elliot. But if she's to lose her cat appends, she's fine with it too.
'I've been doing this for half an hour...' she thinks grimly. 'Drink it or not, can't we just get this over with!?'
Suddenly, she realizes that White is walking casually towards her.
"White," Black scowls.
"What are you doing?" Elliot scowls.
The two watch White snatches the bottle, drinks the medicine, and then...
...Kisses the maid.
"..."
"..."
"...?"
"...Heheh..."
"...!?"
"...!"
Elliot and Black gawk and screeches; "WHAT THE FU—"
Alice swallows the medicine that White transferred from his mouth and twitches in disbelief.
'He just forcefully—nah, it's not a kiss, hahahaha, it was just—he was just—yeah, not a kiss—'
"Ahahahaha," White cracks up. "I got her first kiss~!" he skips away cheerfully.
Alice yelps; "That's not a kiss—"
"You bastard!" Elliot and Black angrily begin to chase off the perverted red-head, whose laughter is echoing in the grandhall.
The new maid doesn't even notice that her cat appends are disappearing, as she's too busy pulling her hair own and falling onto her knees. She punches the ground.
"That's not a kiss...that's not a kiss..." she hyperventilates. "That's not—"
"NOOOOO...!"
Omake: Not Again, Nightmare!
Nightmare sighs and drops himself to his bed. It's really tiring for him to get out. At least he's eaten something. Though he used to eat instant cup noodles all the time, recently he's been craving handmade food that Alice makes.
"Nightmare, what were you thinking...?" a tall figure stands beside his bed. "You can't go out so suddenly without wearing your masker—you'll die from the bacteria."
Nightmare sighs. "I know, Gray...I was too hungry, and I don't want cup noodles..."
Gray Ringmarc's golden eyes narrow. "You shouldn't be eating cup noodles in the first place!" he holds up a bowl of strange goop; "I've cooked this for you—a lifetime supply in your fridge. All the supplements you'll need is—"
"Th-That's not food!" Nightmare yelps and shifts away in his bed. "That's suicide!"
Clunk
"Eh? What's this?" he pauses and then reaches down to get a bottle of chemical substance. Else than the seal, there's no label. Nightmare sniffs the aroma, and his eyes widen.
"Wait..."
"What's wrong, Nightmare?" Gray asks with a frown.
"This is the antidote for the cat appends!" Nightmare gasps, and then clamps his mouth as his eyes widen. "Then...what did I just gave to Alice!?"
In the maid's room...
Alice glares at her own reflection on her mirror when she just finished putting on her pajama.
Flat chests.
Broad shoulders.
Masculine, chiseled jaw.
Flat hips.
Alice grabs her cheeks in disbelief and gasps.
"I've become a man!?" she shivers in wrath and turns with murderous eyes.
"NIGHTMARE!"
Sorry for the long delay! Due to the rapidly coming new Wonderland Games, we have to change stuff here and there.
Frozen themed Question!
Between these three, who should play as Olaf?
Ace
Gowland
Pierce