Author's Note: This is kinda of a repeat of the first chapter so don't feel compelled to really pay attention to it. And don't be afraid to shun my soul for not updating this story.
"Beautiful is it not?" asked Byakuran not really talking to anyone but more voicing the opinions which lay in his mind. While the five children behind him stood clustered together in awe of the new world they were in. Their gray and dead appearances seemed to lighten up a bit in their new surroundings. "But where there is beauty there must also be sorrow." Byakuran's voice sounded again. "And that is where you come in my children. You will be acting as my own personal Angels of Death. Do you understand?"
No response came and even the birds seemed to silence their chirping.
"It seems not but don't worry you will catch onto this little game soon enough." He sat down on the downy grass and motioned for the other five to follow his suit. Once they did he began to speak again. "Well little ones it seems you will have little time to learn for our game starts now." Byakuran held out his hand and a blinding white light began to radiate from it. Each of the children gasped as their respective marks began to glow brightly and their bodies began to slowly dissipate into a gray smoke.
Byakuran smiled to himself yes the game was just about to begin. All that they needed to start were some playing pieces. And he knew just where to find them. He had heard there was a study going on nearby scientists trying to study... no trying to comprehend the power of illusionists. Magnificent pawns they were able to warp reality to create new realms strictly out of their imaginations. The perfect people to be possessed by an ALICE... the perfect people to fashion a new body for broken souls.
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Five teenagers looked around their surroundings which were so extraordinary and unearthly. Yet they all looked around bordley as if this sort of thing was ordinary. They barley turned their heads as they saw a man appear near them.
"Who are you?" asked a teal haired boy with little emotion.
"That is unimportant but what is are you my little illusionists."
"If you wish to borrow our services then you'll have to pay like those researchers are." interjected an indigo haired boy who wore a hood which covered his eyes.
"I do have need of your special talents... but I have no intention of paying for them." With that an inky mist began to fill the land around them. The five teens gasped coughing and falling to the ground beneath them.
"What... what is this?" a girl with purple hair managed to cough out as the rest of her companions went limp.
"For one thing to start another must end." Byakuran stated simply bending down he put his hand on the girls chest. She gasped as her body went rigid then limp. Slowly a yellow mist began to seep its way into her body. "Now to find another body for HEART's other half." Byakuran murmured aloud to himself. "Ah you my boy will do fine." Spotting a boy with blue hair he went over putting his hand on his chest as well and letting yellow mist seep into his body. He continued to do this to each teenager. The boy with teal hair received a blue mist, the indigo received a green, and a female with blue received a red.
"Time for our game to start rise to me HEART." As he said this a girl and a boy similar in appearance arose. "Good your souls have taken to these bodies marvelous are they not?"
"It is miraculous" gasped out the female half of HEART. Examining her hands so healthy and agile
"Such a healthy body." finished her male counterpart.
"Yes you have earned it fairly now listen to me a woman will soon try to rouse you. When she does you must do this" Leaning over he cupped her ear with his hand and whispered instructions to her.
Both halves of HEART nodded "As you wish."
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HEART played her part well plunging the knife through Oregano's back without a backward glance. Killing mercilessly for a second time in her male body. When her bloody task was completed SPADE, DIAMOND, and CLUB appeared. Their bodies broken and lifeless. Yet their eyes held something that none of them had ever felt before... hope. Then they began to morph each stood taller and straighter. Their skin began to gain color as blood for the first time ran through them. Hair began to grow thicker, longer, and healthier while changing texture and color.
Throughout all of this the children laying on the beds began to wither away. As the ALICE's grew stronger they became weaker. Until they themselves appeared to be the forgotten souls and the ALICEs normal teenagers. But it was only in the moment that this comparison could be made. For in the next the bodies of the three remaining teenagers crumbled to a fine dust. Each ALICE stood in a silenced aw examining his or her new body. Not caring what price had to be payed for them for the first time they spoke in radiant strong voices. Nothing like the crippled soft ones they had possessed before. They had bodies full of life and vigor and for the first time they had something to dream for something to give them meaning in their existence.
SPADE was the first to see the sunlight and she ran foward to greet it. She spread her arms wide and allowed the warm rays to fall onto her skin. A smile formed on her lips finally she had found the sun she had been searching for her whole life.
DIAMOND stood awestruck by the world that surrounded him. He looked up to the sky and saw the clouds. What wonderous things they were. Their forms and shapes so graceful as they floated so high above the ground. This was a world that would soothe the heart of an artist.
CLUB saw the door and she immediatly sprinted foward. Her legs long and slim carried her foward. She felt the wind rushing through her face and the sound of the birds in the air. Tears worked their way into her eyes for this was the first time she didn't feel alone.
HEART was the last to leave the building hearing in the distance the buzzing of human life. She closed her eyes contentedly in one body but kepy observing in the other. If ever there was a world to find happiness in it would be this one.
They all stood in silence examaning the new world that they lay in. Until it was broken by the melodic voice of SPADE. Her voice was not composed of words but of dreams, eternity, and freedom. And all present understood her feelings for they too were being set free from cages they had been trapped in their entire existance.