Alice Human Sacrifices

Third Alice

Wonderland had evolved more. It now had a language of its own, a voice to call out to the humans with. It now had a way to invade their minds and found that the easiest to take were the younger, so uncertain, and filled with fear and self-loathing…

They were the best to take from their lives if it wished to learn about the most twisted parts of a human's mind. And no one would miss them either.

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"Hey, Lilly, did you hear?" The blond haired beauty turned to look at her friend. "It turns out that that girl with the pigtails is actually emancipated! Even her family doesn't want her!" They snickered as they glanced at the girl in question.

She always hid her face from the others with a curtain of her blue-green hair. She hid it…but everyone already knew about the mark on her face. It was like a burn that stretched across her face, disfiguring her otherwise beautiful skin.

She was used to their whispers and laughter. She'd received nothing else her whole life. But she knew she was beautiful. Even if they couldn't see it, she was. But she also hated herself for it. Why couldn't it be something that was obvious, like with Lilly?

That part of her mind, the one filled with hate, was what allowed Wonderland in. It seeped into her and slowly invaded her like a parasite.

"They should show you some respect." It whispered her own thoughts to her soothingly, making her feel as though it were harmless, almost a friend. And she agreed with it. "They should follow your every word."

And she muttered, "And they should love me…" As if hypnotized, she reached for her bag. Holding the handle tight, she raised it over her head as she approached the ones who made fun of her constantly. Wonderland whispered to her as she hit them with the heavy bag, filled with textbooks.

She beat them half to death before Wonderland was sure that she was the one it wanted. She was submissive and easy manipulated. This Alice would not be such a waste.

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That night, she vanished from her apartment as she slept. No one would realize she had gone for three full days. But when they did, they would find only a playing card in her place. This, the third unrelated victim of the "Alice Disappearances", was replaced with the green clover. Once again, the back of the card read, "Alice" in red.

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This Alice, Miku, was very different in comparison to the other two. They used the world's want to learn against it, making it give them weapons for "self-defense" while all this one wanted was for the mark to disappear. All she had asked for was to be beautiful.

And so, eager to learn, Wonderland bowed to her wish. She was indeed beautiful without the mark, easy to adore. And so, the makeshift people the dream had created flocked to her, bowing to her every wish.

At one point, a peculiar thought passed through Miku's mind. Wonderland, having started to become a part of her, heard it. She…What was the word? It was short…but so big. It was an emotion, something it had yet to even start to grasp.

Ah yes, it was love. That's what it was called. As for what it was, Wonderland was still clueless, but she loved being here. She loved Wonderland. She loved how people bowed to her wish, gave her everything she wanted, even caving to her sickest, dirtiest thoughts and desires.

Having learned the idea of kingdoms from her mind, it had created them, countries with kings who ruled over the poor. They were cheap imitations of what it had seen in her mind but they seemed to please her nonetheless.

She went to see those kings, enchanting them with her beauty, and seducing them. They obeyed her and came to see her in the night. And so, she rose to power by seducing them into giving her everything she asked for. As she accumulated power and respect, Wonderland constructed a kingdom of her own for her.

She became queen of a new kingdom but soon that kingdom expanded, the kings stepping down, allowing her to rule for them instead. Dressed in green robes, she looked over the peasants, pretending to be kind to them despite seeing them as nothing more than chess pieces that served her faithfully.

She didn't want to leave Wonderland. That much was clear. But the dream soon found it was no longer learning anything from her. She had become useless to it. As such, it decided that Miku was perfect to experiment on.

Despite Wonderland being only a dream, the dreamers were still awake. They didn't need as much sleep anymore so they rarely found themselves dreaming. But as she enjoyed her afternoon tea, Miku found herself inside a second dream.

It had taken Meiko and Kaito slowly, invading their minds with small flashes at a time as it tried to swallow them completely. But since it found itself with a voice, it hadn't needed to do that with the green eyed Alice.

Her biggest fear since she came to Wonderland was that she would stop being loved. That she would slowly age, her beauty decaying. Without her beauty, she believed, was all she had to make her a beloved queen.

Without it, she'd be the old Miku again, a victim of bullying, a freak, hated…And no one would love her, just like back then. So Wonderland showed her the future that awaited her, the very thing she hated. It drove her insane because it showed it to her more than once.

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw it. Every time she smiled, it flashed behind her eyes. The fear drove her insane, tearing her mental stability in two. Acting kind to win the love of those below her, she began to hate her own rule. They'd notice as she grew older. They'd notice...because all eyes were always on her.

And yet, she couldn't bring herself to die so she lived in fear and self-hate for all of her years.

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This Alice brought something new to Wonderland and it was grateful for that. She'd also taught it the limits of a human's mind, showing it how much a person could take before they became twisted and corrupted by fear and hate.

And for that, it was grateful and showed her mercy, allowing her to continue to live all her years in Wonderland, forever a queen and forever at war with herself and her own fate which would not let her rest.

Wonderland looked for a new Alice…

                                        …and two it found.

Next is Spottedleaf9 with the twins. And yes, in this version, Miku did slut her way up to queenship. That doesn't mean I have anything against her. I quite like Miku, actually.