Alice in a Twisted Wonderland (BL 18+ Completed)

Chapter Nineteen: Alice in the Loop

"Don't mind us we're just spilling our guts, if this is love, I don't wanna be loved..."

Long ago, during the Great Battle to determine who would be King of Hearts...

"We'll still be friends after this, right Spade?"

"I won't ever kill you. I'd rather die for you, Ace."

But, the three of them: Spade, Knight, and Ace, knew of a secret prophecy. Ace has the power of divination, and this can be a curse, too.

Ace had created a card with half a King of Spades, and half a King of Hearts. Between them was the heart of the Queen: dead and lifeless. The three refused to tell anyone, but only two denied the truth.

As the two champions stood bloody and tired from exhausting their powers, dread fell onto Knight while watching his friends battle almost to the bloody death. And they have to. Because according to Ace's card...

Only one can live between the Hearts and the Spades. If not, they'll lose the Queen.

"You're winning..." Ace grunts, kneeling on the ground bloody and beaten. "As it should be... only one of us should get out alive."

"No." Spade hesitated to win. "I-I gave you wings, use them Ace!"

"Against you?" Ace smiles, opening his hands to see cards spill out. "No. I... I can't..."

"If you want to win coward, you have to defeat me! Why are you giving up, aren't you powerful?!" Spade angrily yells to his opponent, his dear friend.

"Defeat me, Spade..." Ace struggles to stand up, "You've always been the more powerful out of the three of us."

"But to defeat you is to kill you..." Spade looks at him. "TO DEFEAT YOU IS TO KILL YOU, ACE. If you want Alice to live—"

Ace gives out, "I refuse to kill you... I promised you wouldn't be alone anymore, Spade. If you die, you will be. That wouldn't be a promise anymore, will it? One of us has to die, Spade."

"No." Spade shakes his head. His best friend, or she who is the love of his life. "That won't come true! Ace, your cards are lying!"

"My secondary power is a curse..." Ace whispers, "It's either me or her. I can't kill you, Spade. I could never..."

Spade thought of Wonderland, and how this place needs Alice as a Queen. To pick Ace would be selfish... to deny him of a sacrifice would be...

"Suppression," Spade released snakes that would bind Ace's hands and neck, making Alice stand up from her seat in concern.

"Is he really going to kill Ace?!"

"Aren't they friends?!"

"I thought secondary powers weren't allowed!"

"Queen Alice!"

With a heavy heart, Spade looks at his dear friend, before releasing his lions and wolves to finally kill a defenseless Magician. Everyone screamed when the beasts started mauling Ace; from neck to arms, bringing him to the edge of death.

Spade won, but Alice stopped the fight by yelling out her protests and in turn split the ground between the two champions. "ENOUGH!"

Everyone didn't fear her wrath, for she was a benevolent Queen who is crying at the dying breath of a defeated Champion.

"Who do you choose to be your King, Alice?" Knight asks, his fists tensing up because Ace is dying, he was barely breathing and he accepted his defeat. But they can't do anything because this is an arena where battles end in the same way. Alice was not used to this culture in Wonderland.