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whimsicalism) wrote2020-10-25 10:36 pm
whimsicalism) wrote2020-10-25 10:36 pm
A Story for Somebody's Sake
[No matter where you find your volume of a 'Story for Somebody's Sake'. It's dark leather cover is imprinted with gold lettering and the drawings are fanciful water colors.]
VOLUME 1
PROLOGUE: The Reader and the Storyteller
The Reader didn't always understand them but she loved her parents regardless. Then the foreign soldiers came. Her parents said they were safe because the soldiers were far away. They didn't say anything about the planes.
The soldiers brought their planes from over the sea. Soon all she could see was smoke and fire. Mommy and Daddy didn't say anything after that.
After the soldiers were the doctors. The doctors were worse. The Reader was in pain all the time from the fire but the doctors didn't help. Doctors were good, her parents had told her. Yet this was a lie. These doctors were bad. They only wanted to see the Reader hurt.
They never spoke to her as a child. The Reader was just their toy to break and fix and break then fix again. This made the Reader sad. It lasted for a long time before the Reader decided she couldn't tough it out anymore. She cried in her heart. Her body hurt as if it was on fire again then she knew it.
The Reader had died. She was alone now in a strange wonderland. Sometimes she met others like herself who probably died. It was so lonely. Many years passed before the Reader decided to make a wish.
"I don't got anything to read anymore. I don't have Mommy or Daddy or any friends," the Reader said. "I want a friend."
Someone heard her wish. A girl who looked like her greeted the Reader. "I am the Storyteller," she said. "You who cried out with loneliness, you will be my Master. You love stories as much as I do. Together we will be Alice."
The Reader nodded in agreement. "Yes, we will be Alice."
So the two decided that this strange wonderland would be their home for forever.
[The story goes on explaining many charming adventures the two girls had tricking adults, making them disappear with the Nameless Forest or having Jabberwock play with them. Everything seemed fine until a 'pair of friends' called the Nice Lady and the Queen of Hearts show up.
Apparently this was someone the Storyteller couldn't defeat.]
No one could be a better friend to her than me, the Storyteller knew. We are Alice. They will just throw us away. I will send Jabberwock after them then if that doesn't work I will throw them in my Nameless Forest!
The Reader helped the Nice Lady through these games, however, much to the Storyteller's regret.
Despite the Storyteller's tricks, the Queen of Heart's eventually faced down with her. The Queen of Heart's was an expert with her sword and even with her magic the Storyteller couldn't keep up with her.
The Reader and the Storyteller were dying. "Thank you, Storyteller. Thank you, Lady. I wanted to play some more but bye-bye."
The Storyteller knew she had no reason to be sad. No mirror or story should be sad that their use is gone but she was. She was so, so, so sad. She never knew she had a heart yet it was breaking.
Even as she died she knew she needed a happy ending. It's so so so sad to have a bad ending.
CHAPTER ONE: Closetland
Eventually Storyteller saves some of the children and ask them. They tell her about the monsters, their homes, and Closetland. They talk about how people from other places are showing up. The Storyteller is upset at being left but she goes on some more exploration until she finds a 'home' in some place called the Invidia Ruins.
She tries setting up a home there but her magic isn't strong enough. The Storyteller seeks out more children. These children from Apple Court talk with her about belief. That maybe belief could make her a home and help her find the Reader.
They help her in a ritual. Yet nothing happens. They shrug it off and leave as children do. The Storyteller swears revenge and starts searching for other means of bringing back the Reader.]
CHAPTER TWO: Molly
The Storyteller's heart once more warms up to this new child as she tells her about her quest for trying to find the Reader once more. Months pass before the Professor vanishes.
Molly is heartbroken and as her friend, the Storyteller tells her to use his research to bring the mansion to Closetland. She does so but it's not enough to bring back the Reader or make a proper home for her.]
'Must everything I do end poorly? No,' said the Storyteller. 'I will write a happy ending for Alice! I don't need to believe to know that!'
That was the moment the Storyteller knew she had become the King of the Invidia Ruins.
CHAPTER THREE: Revenge and the Kings
Eventually the Apple Court Kids realize what's going on and try to stop her. She defeats some but the others end up near Molly's house. One of the other Kings, jealous that the Storyteller has a secret power and they down, try to steal it and fail. They kidnap some of the Apple Court Kids in retaliation.
The Storyteller ignores this and sends the Father to make sure that the Kings don't bother them again as she starts up her ideal plan to bring her old friend back.]
VOLUME 2
PROLOGUE: Thirty Children and a Fish
Kanji Tatsumi the Renovator breaks the rules right away and is punished. Freddi Fish the Detective falls out of her fish bowl before anyone finds her and dies.
The Storyteller is displeased.
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CHAPTER ONE: A Daddy's Girl No More
She steals one of Janet Perlstein the Cousin's books about Neptune and hides it. Waiting for the girl to look for it in the library she stabs Janet in the back, destroying many of the Storyteller's precious books.
Janet's cousin, Arnold the Worrywart, comes into the library. Due to his poor eyesight Arnold couldn't tell his cousin was dead. Faking distress, Aya lures him closer until he accidentally trips. With his glasses broken Aya has an easy time of slitting his throat.
Due to Simba the Prince, Rumo the Card Game, and Chance the Pound Puppy's combined senses of smell they manage to find traces of blood on her.
Her execution of being taxidermied into a doll in front of her former friends traumatizes the group. They lock the monstrosity in Aya's room.
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CHAPTER TWO: A Monkey Becomes the Leader
The Storyteller decides that she needs to die. One night while Catarina was climbing the oak tree the Storyteller sees her chance. While she turns to talk to Lillie the Runaway, the Storyteller weakens the branch with her magic.
Catarina falls on her head, breaking her neck.
Between Lillie's own confession and Oliver the Wizard's testimony it's clear that it was an accident. The Storyteller hopes that this will force the children to choose a wrong answer.
Instead, Lillie begs everyone to vote for her so they would have another chance against the Storyteller. Even as she's strangled by a strange woman jellyfish hybrid the group vows to do better next time.
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CHAPTER THREE: Of Dragons and Poison
Tricking Maria Campbell the Replaced Heroine into giving her a recipe, Viola prepares a poisoned batch of donuts as well as lacing some chicken with the poison. Feeding the donuts to Nanako Dojima the Welcomer and Mikhail Our Mistake eating the chicken, Viola waits.
Nanako dies in front of the others in the picnic area while Mikhail dies in mid-air. With Esther the Harpist on his back and Dani the Witches Bane below him, Mikhail kills both girls by accident.
Viola's trickery is quickly found out when no one believed that Maria would make such shoddy food. She's torn to pieces by a purple-haired girl in her execution.
No one feels that sorry for her, this time.
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CHAPTER FOUR: A Hero's Cause
The Storyteller starts to grow restless. She's not the only one. Mao Ninagawa the Devious Diva and Sayaka Miki the Mermaiden start getting restless. Mao by the worry that without remembering her career she'd be worthless and Sayaka by the worry that someone like Viola would act up again.
Mao decides to stab whoever she sees next then use her acting skills to push off the murder on someone else. Anna Sasaki the Artist and Mike Teavee the Television Star were both easy targets. It would have been easy if Sayaka hadn't seen her.
Enraged, Sayaka attacks Mao with the intent of disarming her and bringing her back to the others. Instead Mao is stabbed. In her distress, Sayaka throws her into a festival stall where broken milk bottles finish Mao off.
Sayaka talks herself into believing that maybe this was a good thing, that Catarina would have wanted this. Kirika Kure the Mad Dog is easy to blame due to her violent past.
Eventually, though, she's forced to confess. A giant mermaid clad in armor crushes Sayaka to death with train wheels? No one is pleased.]
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CHAPTER FIVE: Cat and Dogs
Rumo the Card Game, Simba the Prince, and Chance the Pound Puppy were play fighting in the pirate area. It's not an unusual sight. Bored, the Storyteller trips Simba up. Being a lion, his sharp teeth dig into the back of Chance's neck. It kills the dog quickly. Rumo decides this is a murder and starts fighting Simba.
Oliver the Wizard tries to break it up. The Storyteller, however, trips him up and he lands in the middle of the fighting lion and wolperting. All three die from wounds occurred in the fight.
The Storyteller graciously waives the trial.
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CHAPTER SIX: The Unhelpful Car
Putt-Putt the Motor Helper was creating an escape device with an arcade machine and some oil found in the carnival rides. Matilda Wormwood the Precocious Trickster and Richard Tyler the Well-Read was helping Putt-Putt. The device exploded killing all three.
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CHAPTER SEVEN: A Slaughter
Something snapped in Jack's mind. She had enough of playing nice. If she could kill everyone then she would win by default, right? She attacks Alice but Alice manages to escape. Killing Lizzie near the bedrooms, Jack chases Alice to the elevator. She threw knives at both Miyo and Charlie on the way to the fourth floor.
Jack throws another knife at Hope as Alice seeks safety at the meeting. Kirika and Hinako attack her while Alice hides with Maria. Hinako is killed and Kirika, knowing who she was going to attack later, flees.
Jack attacks Maria. Maria with all her might manages to take a knife from Jack. They both die in the fight. This leaves the deranged Kirika and the distressed Alice.
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Start Again
Kirika the Mad Dog grabs one of Jack's knives and chases Alice the Dreaming Doll to the teacup elevator. They struggle and eventually Alice kicks Kirika hard enough to get the knife. Distressed, she stabs Kirika in the stomach and tries to escape.
Kirika grabs her leg, knocking her down. With the door of the elevator she slams it repeatedly on Alice's head until they're both unconscious. They both die.
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EPILOGUE
I REFUSE
[The red text continues for pages in this manner.]
VOLUME 3
PROLGUE: Another Chance