Week 33 Day 6 | Dream/Video
OOC:Warnings for gore, blood and violence.
It is dark. So very dark. However you continue to fall. The chains that dragged you down in the first place are now light as a feather and in some places they seem thinner until they vanish. You cannot see them but you feel their hold shrink with each heartbeat. So this is the end. This is how your ambition meets its bloody conclusion. Just as you question if Albus lied to you or not, the fall ends. You are now lying down on a cold marble floor yet your eyes do not open. You lack the strength for it. Suddenly there is a presence close to you. Your first instinct is to draw your sword and face it but your body does. A strang hand touches your cheek before a voice speaks up.
"Nope"
That single voice unlocks the lids on your eyes and you throw them open only to be faced by the most mind boggling person. Half cat half human, a bandage wrapped around where its eyes should be.
"Human." the cat boy says before leaping aside just as you draw your blade and slash at him or it. Doesn't matter, you just want it to get away.
Suddenly there are many more voices and they all chant the same word over and over. Human.
"So jealous! So jealous! Cheshire is jealous of humans!" the crowd chitters and giggles and you realize with horror that they are all dolls.
Just then another voice speaks up.
"~~Everyone, please be quiet. You are frightening him."
You turn around and see her. A white haired girl, dressed in a white dress holding a doll of a white rabbit in her arms. You think she is radiant almost angelig in this place of darkness and impossibilities. Time seems to slow to an eternity and you find your gaze utterly locked on the girl.
"My name is Alice" she says smiling at you charmingly.
"Ali..ce?" you murmur in a daze.
Just then you feel that familiar presence looming over you from behind.
"I have always wanted to meet you, o Will of the Abyss." The hollow suit of armor introduces itself with a bow .
The Will of the Abyss? This little girl? Albus has mentioned the Will over the duration of your contract but never did you imagine this kind of person to be the ruler of the Abyss.
Albus presents his right blade to the girl and she touches it gingerly.
"You brought him here, did you not? I thank you." The girl presses her ear to the blade and closes her eyes.
"Ah yes. Your name is Kevin is it not?"
You gape, surprised to hear your name from her lips having never met her. Did she get his name from the sword?
"A knight who works in a large mansion." the girl goes on before giving a giggle.
"Ah but everyone died~" Your eyes widen. She knows. She knows everything.
"They were killed in your absence. You were unable to protect them. Even though they were the most important people to you, the knight could not save his master!"
"SHUT UP!" You scream and draw your dagger still painted with the blood of your last victim. You throw the girl down and hold the blade a mere few breaths away from her throat.
"...That is why you came here. To save their lives." she goes on unaffected, not a flicker of fear in her. It annoys you to no end and the desire to slice that delicate neck and spill it's crimson wine.
A slender hand reaches up to the left side of your face as she continues with that same condescending smile that utterly contradicts her charming face.
"Just like every other person who came to the Abyss. They all did their best to regain what they lost. Ah, but everyone becomes strange along the way. They lose themselves after being in the presence of a chain for such a long time." This information is definitely important. Your mind registers it but you cannot reply. You listen on.
Another soft giggle.
"But you are different. You did not lose your mind until the very end."
She reaches out to your blade.
" 'For them.' 'For my Master.' 'I want to turn back time.' " those hands close around the dagger and you see the sliver of blood floow down the blade and onto her fingers, several droplets landing on the girl's white cheeks.
"And so you killed, and killed and killed so many people. Such a fool!" she laughs as she licks her own blood off of her fingers.
Suddenly you are struck from the side by the flat of Albus' sword and you land, sprawling on the floor as the Chain booms with its echoing voice.
"Anyone who harms the Will shall never be forgiven!" You lie there, your body aching from the force of your landing before you hear the girl speak, her voice lower than a whisper.
"why..."
She sits up shakily and continues, her voice trembling just a little.
"I...was talking to that person." Suddenly she looks up and insanity and pure malice fills the gaze she snaps in Albus' direction.
"WHY DID YOU INTERFERE?"
Albus screams in agony just before he explodes into a rain of blood which is acompanied by the frenzied laughter of the countless dolls lining the walls all around you.
"Alice is mad! Alice is mad. The naughty puppet who didn't listen to orders was broken by Alice!"
The girl watches the crimson rain fall reaching out one hand to catch a few droplets.
"So beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous." She reaches out to Cheshire and they join hands.
"Cheshire, let us dance!" The two begin their travesty of a dance, a demonstration of almost childlike innocence in a twisted and morbid fashion as the crimson rain continues, accompanied by the deranged laughter of the dolls.
You question what horror of a nightmare you are having. You remember why you came here, trying to use that to regain your will and composure.
"Are you suffering?" a floating doll approaches you asking kindly yet you can tell that kindness is the last thing this thing is trying to offer you.
"After all this is the most powerful place within the Abyss. That power will permeate into the body and you will become one of them soon enough~ You will become a Chain just like everyone else!"
The revelation chills you to the bone and with every fiber of your being you deny this truth.
"...Impossible... How can humans become Chains?"
A girlish giggle behind your ear and you suddenly hear her again, too close for comfort.
"Did you not know? The power of the Abyss can change humans into Chains. It can bestow life to the unliving and it can control even time itself down to its very dimension. At least that is what Glen told me."
"Glen?" the name does not ring any bells to you but you still ask of this Glen.
"I hate Glen." the girl explains, gently joining her hands at their fingertips.
"Because he took that person away from me. Gilbert, Vincent, I hate everyone who gets too close to that person." You can feel the hate towards these people as if it is your own. They are complete strangers yet you feel that hatred so strongly it's almost suffocating. As suddden as that starts, it fades away as the girl remembers something.
"~Ah that's right." And suddenly her finger is in your eye. The shock is so strong you don't even scream so you are able to hear her next words even as the blood gushes to her fingers.
"I nearly forgot~ Before you become a puppet, your eyes must be ripped out!" She says gleefully and finally you scream as your left orb is torn out mercilessly. You howl at the top of your lungs clutching at the hollow where your eye once resided.
"So gorgeous. What to do? What to do with this red eyeball?" her words barely register in your mind as the agony and fire of your bleeding socket fill every sense you still hold in that part of your face.
"How about we give it to Cheshire. After all that is why he was called here in the first place."
She planned this? Everything? The realization that this will be your grave pierces through the pain and blindness. The impotence and failure to reach that goal for which you bloodied your hands beyond any possible redemption.
"After all, I always felt red eyes suited Cheshire best. But the other eye has to be dug out as well."
And then you remember. That small girl, crying and pleading for you not to go. You find the strenth to stand and your hand closes firmly around the pommel of your dagger. No. Death here is is not an option. You must fight. You must live and give that girl her family back. You owe it to her.
You slash at the dolls around The Will and they shriek as they fade away having dealt them a lethal wound it seems.
The girl seems genuinely surprised by your retaliation but that quickly gives way to a predatory grin. Just as you expect her to attack, the whole world shudders and groans around you.
The Will collapses to the floor screaming in pain and precious friend rushes at her side.
"What is this....so many...falling into the Abyss" she questions before another voice speaks up from the entrance.
"It's Sablier."
Just as you are about to see who spoke, there is a static like interference and when it clears, the world is already falling apart at a rapid pace. The girl stands in the middle of this destruction covering her face, her shaking shoulders revealing that she is in fact crying since you can hardly hear a thing over the noise of the collapsing world.
"Will of the Abyss! You wanted this right eye did you not? If that is your wish, I will give it to you. Be it an arm or a leg I will give you anything you want. So please, use your power." You call out to the girl only she does not hear you, constantly repeating the name Jack. You grit your teeth and suddenly yell at the top of your lungs the same name she gave you when you woke up in this place.
"ALICE!"
This seems to cut through to her and she finally turns her eyes to you, her expression shocked as if she has seen you for the first time in her life.
"Really?" her voice choked with hope all of a sudden and gone is the cruel mistress of the Abyss. The despair showing on her face, the childish desire to cling to hope. It's almost as if she is now a different person.
"Will you really grant me my wish?" a hint of fear slips in as if you will fade away as soon as you say those words.
"Then I-I don't want to be the Will of the Abyss anymore. Break, destroy! And so I want you to help me and that girl. Save Alice!" she pleads to you with tears in her eyes. You cannot help but believe her plea and for a moment you actually pity the ruler of this mad world. If the price to undo your mistake, is something that can also help her, then it is a price worth paying. No matter what. Before you can answer however, the world blurs out of sight.
Those words echo in your mind as everything is swallowed by darkness and the dream play ends.
[The video starts right after the dream concludes and it shows a snow covered canopy over a gray cloudy sky. Several flakes of snow fall on the screen as someone stirs offscreen.]
Mmm? This gross feeling...so I have returned to this golden birdcage have I?
[A weary sigh. He was hearing some very crucial information so he's more than a little annoyed at the so called Gods for bringing him back now. Not to mention leaving the fate of Sharon and her grandmother, not to mention that of Oz and that newly instated head of Baskerville. Everything is happening while he's stuck here and he can't help but hate it.]
Now where is it...
[And he feels around for the Hitomi. His hand bumps against it but it also hits the end feed button thus terminating the unintended call.]
It is dark. So very dark. However you continue to fall. The chains that dragged you down in the first place are now light as a feather and in some places they seem thinner until they vanish. You cannot see them but you feel their hold shrink with each heartbeat. So this is the end. This is how your ambition meets its bloody conclusion. Just as you question if Albus lied to you or not, the fall ends. You are now lying down on a cold marble floor yet your eyes do not open. You lack the strength for it. Suddenly there is a presence close to you. Your first instinct is to draw your sword and face it but your body does. A strang hand touches your cheek before a voice speaks up.
"Nope"
That single voice unlocks the lids on your eyes and you throw them open only to be faced by the most mind boggling person. Half cat half human, a bandage wrapped around where its eyes should be.
"Human." the cat boy says before leaping aside just as you draw your blade and slash at him or it. Doesn't matter, you just want it to get away.
Suddenly there are many more voices and they all chant the same word over and over. Human.
"So jealous! So jealous! Cheshire is jealous of humans!" the crowd chitters and giggles and you realize with horror that they are all dolls.
Just then another voice speaks up.
"~~Everyone, please be quiet. You are frightening him."
You turn around and see her. A white haired girl, dressed in a white dress holding a doll of a white rabbit in her arms. You think she is radiant almost angelig in this place of darkness and impossibilities. Time seems to slow to an eternity and you find your gaze utterly locked on the girl.
"My name is Alice" she says smiling at you charmingly.
"Ali..ce?" you murmur in a daze.
Just then you feel that familiar presence looming over you from behind.
"I have always wanted to meet you, o Will of the Abyss." The hollow suit of armor introduces itself with a bow .
The Will of the Abyss? This little girl? Albus has mentioned the Will over the duration of your contract but never did you imagine this kind of person to be the ruler of the Abyss.
Albus presents his right blade to the girl and she touches it gingerly.
"You brought him here, did you not? I thank you." The girl presses her ear to the blade and closes her eyes.
"Ah yes. Your name is Kevin is it not?"
You gape, surprised to hear your name from her lips having never met her. Did she get his name from the sword?
"A knight who works in a large mansion." the girl goes on before giving a giggle.
"Ah but everyone died~" Your eyes widen. She knows. She knows everything.
"They were killed in your absence. You were unable to protect them. Even though they were the most important people to you, the knight could not save his master!"
"SHUT UP!" You scream and draw your dagger still painted with the blood of your last victim. You throw the girl down and hold the blade a mere few breaths away from her throat.
"...That is why you came here. To save their lives." she goes on unaffected, not a flicker of fear in her. It annoys you to no end and the desire to slice that delicate neck and spill it's crimson wine.
A slender hand reaches up to the left side of your face as she continues with that same condescending smile that utterly contradicts her charming face.
"Just like every other person who came to the Abyss. They all did their best to regain what they lost. Ah, but everyone becomes strange along the way. They lose themselves after being in the presence of a chain for such a long time." This information is definitely important. Your mind registers it but you cannot reply. You listen on.
Another soft giggle.
"But you are different. You did not lose your mind until the very end."
She reaches out to your blade.
" 'For them.' 'For my Master.' 'I want to turn back time.' " those hands close around the dagger and you see the sliver of blood floow down the blade and onto her fingers, several droplets landing on the girl's white cheeks.
"And so you killed, and killed and killed so many people. Such a fool!" she laughs as she licks her own blood off of her fingers.
Suddenly you are struck from the side by the flat of Albus' sword and you land, sprawling on the floor as the Chain booms with its echoing voice.
"Anyone who harms the Will shall never be forgiven!" You lie there, your body aching from the force of your landing before you hear the girl speak, her voice lower than a whisper.
"why..."
She sits up shakily and continues, her voice trembling just a little.
"I...was talking to that person." Suddenly she looks up and insanity and pure malice fills the gaze she snaps in Albus' direction.
"WHY DID YOU INTERFERE?"
Albus screams in agony just before he explodes into a rain of blood which is acompanied by the frenzied laughter of the countless dolls lining the walls all around you.
"Alice is mad! Alice is mad. The naughty puppet who didn't listen to orders was broken by Alice!"
The girl watches the crimson rain fall reaching out one hand to catch a few droplets.
"So beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous." She reaches out to Cheshire and they join hands.
"Cheshire, let us dance!" The two begin their travesty of a dance, a demonstration of almost childlike innocence in a twisted and morbid fashion as the crimson rain continues, accompanied by the deranged laughter of the dolls.
You question what horror of a nightmare you are having. You remember why you came here, trying to use that to regain your will and composure.
"Are you suffering?" a floating doll approaches you asking kindly yet you can tell that kindness is the last thing this thing is trying to offer you.
"After all this is the most powerful place within the Abyss. That power will permeate into the body and you will become one of them soon enough~ You will become a Chain just like everyone else!"
The revelation chills you to the bone and with every fiber of your being you deny this truth.
"...Impossible... How can humans become Chains?"
A girlish giggle behind your ear and you suddenly hear her again, too close for comfort.
"Did you not know? The power of the Abyss can change humans into Chains. It can bestow life to the unliving and it can control even time itself down to its very dimension. At least that is what Glen told me."
"Glen?" the name does not ring any bells to you but you still ask of this Glen.
"I hate Glen." the girl explains, gently joining her hands at their fingertips.
"Because he took that person away from me. Gilbert, Vincent, I hate everyone who gets too close to that person." You can feel the hate towards these people as if it is your own. They are complete strangers yet you feel that hatred so strongly it's almost suffocating. As suddden as that starts, it fades away as the girl remembers something.
"~Ah that's right." And suddenly her finger is in your eye. The shock is so strong you don't even scream so you are able to hear her next words even as the blood gushes to her fingers.
"I nearly forgot~ Before you become a puppet, your eyes must be ripped out!" She says gleefully and finally you scream as your left orb is torn out mercilessly. You howl at the top of your lungs clutching at the hollow where your eye once resided.
"So gorgeous. What to do? What to do with this red eyeball?" her words barely register in your mind as the agony and fire of your bleeding socket fill every sense you still hold in that part of your face.
"How about we give it to Cheshire. After all that is why he was called here in the first place."
She planned this? Everything? The realization that this will be your grave pierces through the pain and blindness. The impotence and failure to reach that goal for which you bloodied your hands beyond any possible redemption.
"After all, I always felt red eyes suited Cheshire best. But the other eye has to be dug out as well."
And then you remember. That small girl, crying and pleading for you not to go. You find the strenth to stand and your hand closes firmly around the pommel of your dagger. No. Death here is is not an option. You must fight. You must live and give that girl her family back. You owe it to her.
You slash at the dolls around The Will and they shriek as they fade away having dealt them a lethal wound it seems.
The girl seems genuinely surprised by your retaliation but that quickly gives way to a predatory grin. Just as you expect her to attack, the whole world shudders and groans around you.
The Will collapses to the floor screaming in pain and precious friend rushes at her side.
"What is this....so many...falling into the Abyss" she questions before another voice speaks up from the entrance.
"It's Sablier."
Just as you are about to see who spoke, there is a static like interference and when it clears, the world is already falling apart at a rapid pace. The girl stands in the middle of this destruction covering her face, her shaking shoulders revealing that she is in fact crying since you can hardly hear a thing over the noise of the collapsing world.
"Will of the Abyss! You wanted this right eye did you not? If that is your wish, I will give it to you. Be it an arm or a leg I will give you anything you want. So please, use your power." You call out to the girl only she does not hear you, constantly repeating the name Jack. You grit your teeth and suddenly yell at the top of your lungs the same name she gave you when you woke up in this place.
"ALICE!"
This seems to cut through to her and she finally turns her eyes to you, her expression shocked as if she has seen you for the first time in her life.
"Really?" her voice choked with hope all of a sudden and gone is the cruel mistress of the Abyss. The despair showing on her face, the childish desire to cling to hope. It's almost as if she is now a different person.
"Will you really grant me my wish?" a hint of fear slips in as if you will fade away as soon as you say those words.
"Then I-I don't want to be the Will of the Abyss anymore. Break, destroy! And so I want you to help me and that girl. Save Alice!" she pleads to you with tears in her eyes. You cannot help but believe her plea and for a moment you actually pity the ruler of this mad world. If the price to undo your mistake, is something that can also help her, then it is a price worth paying. No matter what. Before you can answer however, the world blurs out of sight.
Those words echo in your mind as everything is swallowed by darkness and the dream play ends.
[The video starts right after the dream concludes and it shows a snow covered canopy over a gray cloudy sky. Several flakes of snow fall on the screen as someone stirs offscreen.]
Mmm? This gross feeling...so I have returned to this golden birdcage have I?
[A weary sigh. He was hearing some very crucial information so he's more than a little annoyed at the so called Gods for bringing him back now. Not to mention leaving the fate of Sharon and her grandmother, not to mention that of Oz and that newly instated head of Baskerville. Everything is happening while he's stuck here and he can't help but hate it.]
Now where is it...
[And he feels around for the Hitomi. His hand bumps against it but it also hits the end feed button thus terminating the unintended call.]