-1 Week Later-
“Alice, come on, you need some fresh air,” Jasmine said outside her bedroom door.
“Please, we’re here for you,” Mindy said, worried for her health.
It had been a week since Juliana saved everyone and brought them back to their dimension, but unfortunately, she didn’t make it back with them. And there was another person that didn’t make it back either, Alexis Rhodes. The two people that she cared about the most were gone, because of her.
“Out of the way, ladies, big brother is here to save the day~!” Atticus said, opening the door with the spare key he was given. “Alice, your big bro- hey, there’s no need to throw things he said after getting hit in the face with Alice’s pillow.
“GET OUT!” Alice yelled, tears still flowing out of her eyes. She couldn’t help but blame herself for everything that happened. Everyone was suffering because of her. She could feel everything start to slip away from her.
“Alice, it’s not your-”
“Get out! Get out! Get out!” Alice screamed, unable to calm herself down. Everyone near her suffers how could she dare to allow her brother to be near her now. She pushed him out of the room, slamming the door before sliding down to the floor in despair.
“…She just needs some time,” Atticus said, ashamed that he couldn’t be the big brother that she needed him to be. “Come on, let’s give her some space.”
“Fufufufu~. Look at that, you did it again~,” a dark voice whispered into Alice’s ear. “You drove your brother away when he was trying to help you. How rude~.”
“Shut up,” Alice said back to the voice. Ever since Alexis and Juliana disappeared, she has been plagued by this voice's insults. None of them which she could refute. She was a terrible person, some not even worth living. She needed to be punished for all the wrong that she has done. How was it fair that the two people which she cared about most in the world had to suffer because of her?
“Why? Are you upset that they’re gone~?” the voice asked, mocking her. “Don’t you wish there was a way to get them back? A way to be reunited with the ones you love?”
“I do, but their gone, and they’re never coming back,” Alice said, understanding the cruel fate that they went through because of her.
“Fufufufu~. Dear child, you are mistaken to believe that they can’t come back~,” the voice said, enticing Alice with words she desperately needed to hear. “Yes, that’s right, you hold the power to bring not just those two girls back, but Yubel as well~. She’s one of your victims as well, you owe her~.”
“I… I do,” Alice said, enthralled by the words of the voice. “I can really bring them back? All of them?”
“You can~,” the voice said, happy to see that Alice was being so compliant with her right now. “But you can’t do it here, not where your powers are at their weakest~. Come, I will show you where you need to go~.”
“…Yes,” Alice said, falling into a trance, and making her way out of her room.
“Alice!” Jasmine and Mindy, who refused to leave her side, were shocked to see that Alice finally left her room, but they were too late to save her now. “Alice, we’re so glad that you're okay. Come, let’s… Alice?”
Alice walked passed them as if they weren’t even there. She didn’t care that the voice in her head might be lying to her, but she couldn't risk the chance of losing them again. She would rescue Alexis ad Juliana. It was all that mattered.
“Alice, where are you going!?” Mindy yelled out to her, but she still wouldn’t respond.
“I think something wrong,” Jasmine said, watching Alice leave the dorms without a single word. “We have to call the others.
-Several minutes Later-
Alice continued to walk through the forest, guided by the dark voice in her head. It understood her desires more than anyone else, and it would help her acquire them through any means necessary.
“Here we are~,” the voice stand once they reached the ruins on the island. Underneath the broken archway was a shiny rainbow crack floating in midair. “If you go through there, you will be even closer to seeing them again~. Don’t you want that?”
“I… I do,” Alice said, unable to resist the temptation. “I-”
“Alice!!!!!” All of a sudden, all of Alice's friends called her name, snapping her out of her trance.
“Alice, what are you doing here?” Bastian asked her. "That looks like a spatial rift. Step away from it.”
“I can’t,” Alice said to them. “I’m going after Alexis and Juliana. I’m going to bring them back~. We’re going to all be together again~.”
“Alice, please stop!!” Jasmine and Mindy yelled to her. “Please!! We know it’s hard for you, but they’re gone!!”
“They’re lying to you~,” the voice said to Alice, captivating her attention once more. “They don’t want you to be happy. They only care about themselves. They never cared about Alexis or Juliana.”
“No! They’re alive!” Alice yelled at them, her eyes glowing gold. “I’ll find them and bring them back! Stay out of my way, and I’ll let you live!” She didn’t care if they were her friends. All that mattered was getting them back. Alice couldn’t trust them. She knew that Alexis and Juliana were waiting for her. She needed to save them, no matter the cost.
“Alice, what are you doing!? Stop!” Syrus yelled, unable to stop Alice from entering the crack, disappearing before their very eyes. “Come on! We have to go after her!”
“Agreed!!!” everyone yelled, chasing after Alice. She was their friend, and there was no way that they could leave her alone in the state she was in. Little did they know what mess they would soon find themselves in.
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“Ugh, where are we?” Alice asked, slowly walking out of the rift into the ruins of a castle.
“Fufufu~. Can’t you tell? This is the world where you will find what you most desire~,” the voice said to her, leading her to a room inside the castle. There a lone knight in pitch-black armor stood.
“Who are you? How dare you entered the castle of the Supreme Queen!” the knight yelled at her drawing his sword.
“Energetic as always~,” the voice laughed, sounding as if she knew who this knight was. “My dear, if you wish to live, it would be best, to play this~.”
The top card of Alice’s deck glowed, prompting her to draw it. Upon looking at it, she knew that this card wasn’t one of hers. Broken Doll-Joint Hero Nea. The card felt weird in her hand, but she couldn’t help herself from summoning it.
“Impossible!” the knight yelled in disbelief. “How could someone like you possess such a card!? How dare you sully her honor by playing that card!” The knight went in to attack Alice, but Broken Nea defend her and defeated the knight with ease.
“Serves him right~,” Alice said, for a second not realizing that she was the one who talked, not the voice in her head. “
“Good, very good~,” the voice inside of her head said to her, happy to see that she was falling into the temptation of power. “Now show this foolish knight who he serves.”
“He serves me,” Alice said, stepping on the knight's helmet, and pinning him to the ground. Her eyes began to glow once more as her darkness began to take over. She may have had no idea where she was, or this feeling that was welling up inside of her, but she knew one thing for certain. Power was needed here. All that mattered was power.
“My Queen please forgive me!” the knight yelled in despair. “Please tell me how I can be forgiven!”
“Find them,” Alice said, pulling out her duel pad, and showing the knight pictures of Alexis and Juliana. “Find them and bring them to me. Kill anyone that gets in your way. For those that don’t wish to help, bring them to me, and I will make sure that they know their place.”
“Yes, my Queen!” the knight yelled, leaving the room.
“Very good. I’m glad that you are such a quick study~,” the voice said to her. “Together, we shall rule this world once more. With our power, we will find Alexis, Juliana, and Yubel. They won’t be able to avoid our gaze for long~.”
“Good,” Alice said, sitting on the decaying throne before her. She had lost too much already. If becoming the ruler of this world meant that she would never lose anything else, then she was going to make sure that there would be no one to stand in her way.
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