Your Princess is in Another Castle

Blood was on her hands, and no amount of water could wash the stains upon Alice's soul. Leticia was dead by her hands, and while the crime was -perfect- the gods certainly knew of Alice's dark deeds. Indeed, Leticia was not the only blood on the girl's hands. Across the multiverse, countless worlds suffer under the yoke of Alice's tyranny and countless billions have died in the name of feeding her greed and lust for power. Worlds despoiled, lives destroyed, and an innocent student dead at her hands. Watch Alice care.

After making Leticia murder herself, Alice wanted to get out of the school. While the occasional murder and her interaction with likeminded individuals made things more entertaining for her overall the place was quite boring. One thing that wasn't boring about this island, though, was the high class district of the city. Being the single wealthiest girl in the world, Alice had plenty of money to spare and she certainly loved to spend it this section of town. She already had bought enough new designer cloths to mortgage a mansion in under two hours, and now after her gluttonous shopping excursion was riding off to the most expensive restaurant in town in the back of her massive , luxury limo.

It was a massive white vehicle with excessive golden detailing including a solid gold grill. As far as size was concerned, it was as gluttonous as one would expect from Alice. Described by media elements as "the biggest limo on earth" the length and size of it most definitely earned that title. Like a titan along the road it instantly commanded attention, and that's exactly what Alice wanted.

Inside the vehicle, Alice sat thumbing away on her Nintendo DS with a bored look on her face. For her "night on the town" she was dressed, as expected, quite elegantly. She had on a short white dress with a subdued but still colored cheery blossom floral pattern and white leggings that cut off right at the mid point of her thighs in an lace-like pattern that matched the lace fringe at the bottom of her dress. With it she had a thin belt around her waist and a large, luxurious fur coat. In place of her usual rabbit ear hat she instead was wearing a fur one of similar design. On her feat she had expensive looking heals that where of the same subdued pink of the cherry blossom pattern on her dress.

"Make the traffic move faster! I'm boooorrreeed!" Alice whined as her limo moves slowly through the city streets. Her driver simply remained silent, knowing there was nothing he could do to meet his mistress' demands. However, trying to explain that civilly would only make her lash out, so to keep his job, the driver bit his lip and kept driving as Alice huffed and went back to her 3DS, loading a new game to take up the time.

After a little while, Alice's limo pulled up to the restaurant and the young princess of a girl stepped out, her long blond hair falling down over her back gracefully as she came out of the vehicle. She walked up to the matrade flanked by her servants that opened the door for her. "Ah, Miss Mordrake! We're honored to have you with us tonight. Unfortunately, there was an...accident...at your reserved table, so it will be a little bit of time for us to clean it up. I hope you understand...

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In the most expensive restaurant in town the night was especially busy. A young couple who where anything but wealthy who now stepped foot in the restaurant where amazed at the place. It was exquisite. Everything about it was beyond their wildest dreams and they where finally here to celebrate a recent engagement. They had saved night and day, and even then they knew they could only afford the cheapest food on the menue but they where finally here, and they would enjoy what they could.

The clean, crisp, well-dressed waiter in his suit took the two of them over to a table right next to the one occupied by a starlight academy student who had, much like Alice, taken her own night on the town. The couple sat down and started to look over the menu, their eyes growing wide with amazement at the offerings. Meanwhile, at the front of the restaurant, there was sheer panic...

"IT'S BEEN FIVE MINUTES! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!? ALICE MORDRAKE DOSEN'T WAIT! YOU WILL GET ME ANOTHER TABLE NOW!" Alice screamed as she stamped her feet on the ground. She had been caught behind traffic and would -not- be made to wait like a "peasant" The matrade, a nervous shaking wreck. All the other tables had guests, but miss Mordrake would not wait, and being the richest person on earth, she was not the kind of customer you wanted to be displeased. Having no other choice, he called back to the restaurant staff and told them a table needed to be cleared for Alice..

"Alright, a table is being cleared for you right now, Miss Mordrake. We apologize for the inconvenience." The matrade said to Alice who was pouting like a spoiled child. The man's words quickly turned her expression around, however, and without even a thank you to him she walked off into the restaurant with an intimidated waiter leading her forward...

At the table of the young couple, there was misery. Right as they where about to order, two more...muscular..waiters told them the news. "I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave. There will be a table open in 2 hours that is being cleaned that you're free to have if you want to come back. However, for now, we need your table." They said politely in their gruff tones. "Why!?" the woman asked. "Because a very important customer, who usually sits at the table being cleaned, demands that she be served now, and unfortunately she happens to be Alice Mordrake, the richest girl on earth.....so a bad experience for her could be the end of our business. I hope you understand." the other continued to the couple...

As they heard those words, the woman burst into tears and the man had a look of utter anger on his face..."You...you....Well, you know what, we'll go, and never come back....Oh, and tell that spoiled little shit Alice that this is her gift from us!" the man said as he threw wine on one of the waiter's suits. Then, after that, he attempted to pull the tablecloth and cause a massive mess, but one of the burly waiters stopped him in the act, grabbing his wrist and twisting his arm against his back. "Now, you and your girl are gonna leave with no trouble, got that?" The waiter said. The man said "alight" in a disgusted tone and rushed out with his partner.

As the room calmed down Alice was lead to her table with a smile on her face. She was sat, immediately handed a menu and quickly brought a complementary appetizer of the restaurant's finest caviar. "That's more like it.." Alice said to herself as she settled in. Looking at the table across from her she could not help but find the girl sitting there...familiar. While she didn't know them personally, she remembered seeing her halls of the school. Academy students that can afford to come here? They may be fun...and perhaps share my love of the good life...perhaps I should have a chat? Alice thought to herself. Calling over a waiter, Alice whispered to him to tell the table where Aurélie was sitting that the table across from them would pay for their meals in return for a friendly chat...

Aurelle was stunning, to say the least. Between her perfectly styled hair, flattering white dress and newly acquired broach she was every bit what Alice expected from the kind of student who would come to a place like this. It was a rare thing for Alice to find another student who could afford to go to the kind of places she frequented regularly, so needless to say stumbling upon one here was a pleasant surprise. Of course, by the time she had gotten to the table Alice had already placed her order, making sure to pick out the most expensive thing possible on the menu. Food was the last thing on Alice’s mind right now. No, Alice wanted to know more about this student that she saw in passing. Starlight Acadamy had been a fruitful but lonely affair. Being wealthy, despite all its benefits, was in many ways alienating to Alice, especially considering her unique status as a teenage tyrant that happened to have more money than anybody else in the school. She was –hoping- that this girl shared her own views. Being a fellow member of the upper class, this girl possibly see the world for how it really was; a place where only certain individuals are fit to rule and the rest are but tools to be used. Even if she didn’t, Alice could, at the least, hang out with her in the places few other students could afford, and that was something, right?

Interested in the girl, Alice immediately forced her will Into her head. Heh, that was easy! She had absolutely no mental defenses at all! Alice thought to herself as she navigated through Aurelle’s mind. It was all laid out before her. Her personality, her past, her thoughts….her….dark deeds…where all now at the young tyrant’s fingertips. Her disembodied conscious giggled excitedly as she saw the bloody murder of Aurelle’s father. Yes…this one is interesting! I like her already! Alice continued to think to herself. Disengaging herself from Aurelle’s mind, Alice returned to herself as her new guests arrived.


“Hello. If you don’t already know my name, you can call me Alice Mordrake. I have a feeling you do know it, though…which is why I picked up your tab! I’ve seen you around school and thought I’d find out more about you….it’s rare to find somebody with good tastes and the money to act on them on this Island, so you’re a breath of fresh air. If there is anything you want to ask me about, feel free. If you’d rather me do the talking, then just say so!” Alice said to Aurelle with a smile on her face.

A transformation. To the patrons of the restaurant, Aurelle''s powers where a shocking site. However, for Alice, it was an all to familiar, yet interesting ability. The fairy and landscape brought with it reminded Alice of her own magitek, the feared Genesis Network that could re-write the reality of entire planes in the blink of an eye. While this girl's powers where much more -limited- then what her machines can do, there was great usefulness in having such a power without being forced to rely on technology. The stakes in the game had just been raised, Alice now wanted to get her claws into Aurelle and seize her abilities for her own!

Taking a sip from her own drink, she could not help but smile a bit at Aurelle's show of power. "The academy? Heh. Well, it's an interesting place, though I sometimes which the students where more useful. On one hand, I find the varity of powers and knowledge there exciting." Alice said to Aurelle' and Adrian, pausing to take a sip of her drink before she continued.

"On the other hand, most of the students are too boring and utterly useless to my games beyond being fun toys to play with. That's why I brought you over here. I thought maybe you're different from most of them. I'll put things simply. I'm looking for students who aren't afraid to do immoral things, and step on a few people to achieve greater goals. I thought maybe being one accustom to power, that you've done your fair share of stepping on people. So I started this conversation to see if you'd be the kind of person who would want in on my games...and from what I've seen of you so far you don't disappoint."Alice said to Aurelle and her sister.

"Also...your ability...it interests me..and I believe you've shown me it for a reason, no? If you don't mind, could you share that reason with me? Or do you need me to answer a few other questions first?" Alice continued.

What Aurellie' didn't know only made Alice more confident. Of course, the noble took her for a fool, but unknown to her she was the one here who knew so little. The entire restaurant was under Alice's spell, Aurellie' included, and the reason Alice was so...forthright...in her speech was because the people around them where nothing but dolls.....puppets who would dance at her command and could hear and see nothing of their conversation unless their puppeteer let allowed them.

"You're right, things are different. I too, live in a world of fantasy....yet I also want to make my fantasies into reality. I'm not content with merely playing make believe, and I know you aren't either." Alice said as she took a bite of her own food casually. She motioned to one of the waiters and whispered something in his ear before turning back to Aurellie and her sister.

"So, how about a show with dinner? Something tells me you'd like the entertainment they have scheduled...I hear it's interactive!." Alice said to Aurellie with an excited giggle. The waiter she whispered to before had journeyed to another table where a family of a mother, father, 10 year old boy and 8 year old girl was sitting. With a few hushed words the family got up from their seats and walked over to Alice and Aurellie's table. They stood erect for a second before the three girls, until Alice motioned to them and said "Come on, don't be shy now! Introduce yourselves!"

The father cleared his throat and began to speak "My name is Alfred Farnsworth. I am a loving family man and both myself and my wonderful family are dolls under the control of Alice-hime." He said to the both of them.

His wife continued after him, saying the following. " We had memories, but Alice has currently suppressed them. My family and myself have no free will, but our memories and original personalities can be restored at her command at any time without our free will being restored."

Then the little girl chimed in: "We exist solely for your entertainment. You can have us do anything you wish to each other and even have our personalities and memories, but not free will, restored before, during or after we do it. We are nothing but dolls for the both of you"

Alice giggled a bit before beginning to speak to Aurellie again. "consider this an assessment of your tastes and a few other things, too! Feel free to have fun with them, Aurellie!" Alice said to Aurellie, awaiting her reaction. Heh, now, lets see if her behavior is in line what what I found in her mind. Alice said to herself inside her own mind. The whole affair was in fact one big twisted test of Aurelle's own decision-making, cunning and sadisim, but more importantly was a blatant show of power on Alice's part. She was hitting two birds with one stone, both confirming Aurelle's potential as an ally while also showing her just how -powerful- Specter's princess truly was!

The game had been won the moment Alice peered into the two girl's mind. Like so many of Alice's games, it had been a simple ordeal. Slip past Aurellie's pitiful mental defenses and read her like a book and read her Alice did. Her secrets could not be hidden from the princess of specter. No matter what she may have said or done outwardly, Alice knew that she had her claws in Aurellie' and now she was going to take -full- advantage of the situation. Alice paused for a second, folding a single hand under her nose as if in deep thought, letting out a long, exaurated drawn out "hmmmm" as she pondered. After pausing for a second her face seemingly lit up as if she just got a great idea.

"Well, you get to keep these dollies....but to get -full- custodidy of them you'll have to do some things for me. I was thinking we could form an...extended partnership.. You have certain tallants that I feel could be of use to my plans....and my organization..." Alice said. She paused and gracefully took a sip of her drink before casually waving her hand and calling forth a floating holo-screen.

On the screen, an image flashed of a strange red symbol that looked vaugly like an eye. It was a large red circle with a red dot in the center and red lines emanating from the center of the top and bottom of the circle. "Specter is my organization. It was founded by a collection of the worlds wealthiest businesspeople and seized control of by me with my powers. Our goal is simple, the pursuit of power, resources and ulitmatly to usurp the rulers of reality and seize their power for ourselves." Alice explained. As she talked, the screen showed various images that corrilated with her speech, first showing several of the buisnessmen who founded the organization and then moving towards an image of a red and black network grid ensnaring countless worlds as she explained the organization's goals.

"Our power extends to many places and if there is a company on this world, chances are we are pulling it's strings. We...or rather....I, can offer you much more then this...simple gift...of a few slaves and in return all I ask is that you aid me in whatever task I may need your assistance with. In return, I will give you these slaves to do with as you see fit, and will mutually give you aid if you should request it." Alice said , the screen illustrating specter's power by showing an unfolding web of countless massive corporations connected to the same eye-symbol from before, Specter's logo.

"So, what do you say? Do you want to tumble down the rabbit hole, Aurellie? Alice asked.