Secrets-Chapter 16

A/N: I’m sooooooooooooo screwed! I’m also sooooooo sorry because I didn’t update for a long time. My flash disk was formatted and my stories were deleted completely! Though some of my stories in the phone were saved but the story itself was wiped out.

Please forgive me.

Italic: Rin’s spells or powerful words

You guys also noticed I used some characters twice. Yes. That was a mistake. I suppose…but just presume that they are different from the earlier chapters.

Also…I need the names of other vocaloid members so that I could snip them in the story. More characters=More chapters.

And to those who like my story…well…thank you!~ I just need to fix them because I kind of started at the wrong foot but anyways!

Continue!~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Rin’s P.O.V

We better rendezvous with Len and Taito. They probably found out where the second Alice is but when I turned to give a glance at Len, his eyes were wide like he was shocked with something.

“Len? What is it? Is it something with what I did a while ago?” I asked him and he snapped back. He nervously shook his head and kept his weapon.

“I-It’s nothing. It’s just…you got better and your powers…their high end and..”

“Advance rather than the ones before?” I continued and walked off.

I knew it.

I can’t get over that time.

All of the seven years he didn’t even tell me a thing.

The time I left him.

“I’m sorry, Len.” I whispered and ran like hell, leaving him behind me of rather, he was trailing me.

“Rin! Where is the Second?” Len shouted behind me.

“Shut your trap and follow! I’m not in my best moods.” I replied and ran faster until I reached a pavilion where second is.

“What is his problem? Can’t play Moonlight Sonata properly?” I heard someone ask from my left and saw that it was Taito.

“Since when were you here? Where is Miku?” I asked and he looked over my direction.

“Miku is singing. She’s competing with the instrument of Second.” Taito told me.

“What is she singing?” Len asked, panting and catching his breath.

“ I don’t know. An opera piece.” Taito answered.

“As expected. When she continues that, she’ll be totally compelled to join Second’s music. Make her stop.” Rin told them.

Taito ran towards Miku’s direction and sealed her lips by covering it. Taito glared at the Second Alice for a while.

 “Fall back.” Rin ordered. Taito went immediately by my side. I gave them a lump of wax for them to use to cover their ears. “Wear that.”

“R-Rin? Since when did you arrive?” Miku asked and fell on her knees. She gave out? How long was she singing?

“No time for answering your questions. Wear the wax.” I gave a pair for Len as well. I didn’t bother to do mine. I have to ask Second a question.

Quickly, I sliced the grand piano into half. Such a waste but doing so, I’m sure that he be a pain when he answers my questions.

“Second Alice, I see that you always wanted to twist the minds of whoever comes here.” I pointed at the rose bush behind the pavilion.

Several bodies of humans have been skewered by thick rose vines and rich red roses bloomed.

“Disgusting you are, Second. What will we do to go to the third?” I asked directly but he laughed. I expected that much for a mad man.

“The third? Ha! She’s been with you since the beginning of the game and now she’s gone. See?” He pointed a weak finger next to Taito where someone used to be next to him. Miku is the third?

“What? You have to be kidding me. Miku is the third Alice?” I asked him with a nervous smirk at my face.

“Yes. She’s been looking at every move you make, every emotion that is present in your heart and head. She’s the Queen of the Underland and she’s your greatest opponent. Hehe…” He said in a ghostly manner.

“Impossible. She couldn’t be. She’s my friend!” I shouted.

“You…are a vampire…she’s…a werewolf…a large gap engulfs both of you and she will be the last one to get out of the cage.” Second Alice warned. Get out of the cage? What does that mean?

As I stared at the second Alice, he was being wrapped in rose vines already but it wasn’t only him. He’s wrapping me in thick and thorny rose vines as well.

“C-rap.” Was all that I managed to say before my mouth got covered by a vine. They were wrapping me from head to toe.

I can hear Taito shout my name and so is Len. I tried to struggle and grab my weapon but my hands were wrapped already.

“Rin!” Taito and Len tried to reach for me but the vines kept them away. My face started bleeding. It’s a miracle it didn’t cover my eyes and my nose.

Crap! Crap! Crap! I have to get myself out of this somehow without them knowing that power that I kept for the past five years.

I turned my head t the second Alice but he’s good as dead already. His stomach has been pierced by the vines, his face is deformed showing a good amount of flesh.

That is disgusting. Blood is dripping from several spots of his body.

I felt something. This time, the vines slowly lifted my skirt. Nope. That is not the purpose of vines, right? I guess I have to do it.

Poison.

I breathed out using my mouth and the vine corroded immediately, melting in a green goo.

My skin did the rest. My whole body is now made of poison and my dress is going to be affected of this. That…I totally did not think of.

After I was released, the only things that blocked all my private parts are the thick Rose vines that were not affected of my poison.

Deactivate Poison. Dress number: 07 armor

All the garments I needed appeared in a flash. I was dressed for combat: A off-shoulder sleeved black dress with a corset bodice and layered above-the-knee orange and black skirt with a ruffled hem.

“Woah.” Was all I heard from Len and Taito afterwards.

“How in the world did you do that?” Len asked.

“Nothing. Let’s go because someone needs a large scale beating.” I took out a saber – a gold-silver saber that came with the armor which is at least three feet long and is double bladed. Sweet right?

“W-who are you referring to?” Len asked nervously and I noticed that Taito was looking for Miku. She disappeared as I expected her to be.

“Taito, don’t go looking for her at this moment. She’s not as nice as you think she is.”

The Second Alice is a mad musician. He played wonderful songs that made thing go mad in Wonderland. When he was dead, a beautiful rose grew in his right eye.

Upon hearing those, I looked at the corpse of the second Alice.

And indeed, it is a beautiful rose of red.

“We have to go but where is the road to the Third Alice?” Taito asked. His face now curious of what was going on.

“Perhaps I could help, no?” A single smile. That is the only thing I saw and eventually, a head appeared with the same smile. A girl who looked human but with neko (cat) ears?

“Good evening, your majesty.” Her body appeared. Wait a minute.

“Oh…You are Cheshire Cat. A really curious figure in the story. I see that you came in already. How do you do?” Rin bowed as a greeting.

Cheshire Cat has a quite short green hair. A petite figure and a rather lovely dress of black and white stripes. With cat ears, the tail and a sly smile…indeed, she does hold some information.

“So, what is that you want in exchange?” I asked. Surely, not even Cheshire cat would not think of anything for a bargain. She started thinking.

“Hmmm…tricky…Nya!~ Instead, can I have one of these guys you have company when it ends?” She asked and purred in between Len and Taito.

“Let’s see. Taito is fond of cats and so is Len over here so you may choose one.”

“Weeeeee~~ Let’s got then!” Cheshire vanished into thin air and appeared near another entrance of the maze.

I looked at Taito and Len. I saw them staring daggers at me.

“What?” I asked them.

Both of them stepped in front of me. “Your so mean Rin. You are willing to give us to Cheshire cat?” Taito asked.

I shrugged. “It’s not like that. I’ll adopt her in my house if it was that case. Besides, she’s a free spirit. She wants a companion. Not unless you want me with her and travel somewhere I won’t tell you, right?”

And then there was silence.

“Yeah. You have a point. You can adopt Chesh as a house cat. She’ll be useful.” Len sarcastically told me.

“Shut up both of you.” I ordered and they did.

“Well, princess, do you fancy seeing the mad hatter first before dropping off the castle. I’m sure you would like to meet him and ask for several answers for your questions regarding the rules of the game since you skipped out on the first one.” Cheshire suggested.

I totally got distracted with finding the castle that I also forgot that the mad hatter was my ace. I was told before that looking for him might be the key to finishing this silly game once and for all.

“I would like that. Can you please take me there?” I asked of her and she nodded with a big smile. She now started to pull me towards a part of the maze which was hidden. If you didn’t part the bushes of roses, you won’t notice that there was a space there.

“Well, Well, Well, if it isn’t The queen of night kingdom. Such an honor. Take a seat. Ah, I see that you are with Mister Kagamine and Mister Taito Shion over there, please join me.” The hatter said. I can’t see his face though.

Cheshire sat next to the hatter so did I but the march hare (I guess) kept laughing.

The march hare has silver hair, red eyes and a crooked smile. His rabbit ears were messy and I guess, mad? He looks kinda cute but he’s crazy.

“Ah, mad hatter, thank you for your invitation.” I told him and smiled. I took a seat, Len and Taito sat next each other next to me.

“Well, what do you want to know?” The hatter asked pushed up his hat revealing a face familiar to me.

Purple hair, purple eyes, playful smirk…

“G-G-G-Gakupo?”

My jaw dropped…wait…it was not only me…

We all dropped our jaws.

What the fuck is he doing here?

To be continued!~