𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕎𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕃𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣. ⏱

17. The Moon and the Sun

Somewhere far away, inside her castle, Fate was observing them…

"The last kiss of theirs."

… that was what Fate and Alice were thinking.

-He can't do this…He can't die… can he? - Fate whispered and the light blinked in her ruby eyes. She ran out of breath, her heart was pounding hard in her chest.
Her hand reached the bead necklace which was glowing on her neck. The source of her power. She looked at the Time's life-string. It was the longest string from all of them, constantly curling up into a thick reel. There were no beads tied in as Fate wasn't able to put a regular bead on. Time was making his own choices, immune to her basic magic, he was messing with her from the very beginning. It was driving her crazy.

Cruel bastard, he rejected her love.

But they say you can't unlove who you once loved, so…

At the last minute, she made her decision and took off one of the beads from her necklace.
Fate put it on Time's life-string. The bead was sliding through the thread, while the string was unraveling itself, keeping it from coming to its end. Keeping Time from dying.

***

While Alice was kissing Time something unexpected happened. She felt overwhelmed from the inside. Whatever it was, it possessed her. Like some sort of power came from him and filled her instead. It took her breath away and she backed off from Time gasping for air. Alice realized what was going on. The Light escaped Time's body, like a soul.
What she didn't know, being held by Fate's power he was locked in a coma-like-state.

Cornelius saw the moment, when Time's clock just turned off and went black. The whole world trembled under their feet and everything and everyone, the whole Underland stopped in time. Everyone except Alice and the Concepts.

The light blinked in Alice's eyes and they lit up in the color of brown. Her whole life flew by before her eyes…and not just hers. The whole beginning of Underland. Every event that ever happened. Each day, week, month, year… every century. It was so quick she barely saw anything that she could actually recognize.

Alice wasn't Time. She couldn't revive the time around. She hasn't had a clock on her chest. Time was like a vessel to the Light. The Gods created him like this. Alice had her own soul and was an independent being…so where did the Light go inside her…?

She didn't know.

-My goodness… - She groaned looking around. Cornelius wasn't moving. He was like a still figure, his face was expressing concern. When Alice looked at the Time she instantly realized he's not just frozen in time… he looked not alive.
- Oh no! - She gasped, touching his cold cheek. She tried really hard to not freak out or cry, she had to do something. Quickly. Her eyes filled with tears anyway as she started to look around, seeking help. She was completely alone.

***

-Pull yourself together. Show me why he loves you so much, yellow-haired kiddo- Fate said observing her actions closely in her orb. - Oh my Light! - She sighed - I hope HE knows!

***

Alice ran to the Chronosphere, checking it out. It was at its place. Glowing. The Chronosphere without its master, without its purpose was useless. The power had nowhere to go, it was just sitting there - waiting to be awakened again.

Alice took it in her hand. But what was she going to do with it…?
She was walking around, thinking what her next move should be. She was feeling so lonely and cold in here. All by herself, with everyone around frozen in time.

Walking down the corridor Alice noticed something she had never seen before in the castle. She found a golden door, which didn't belong here and looked so strange in the cold brass and antique-silver castle. She was wondering if it was because of her eyes. Maybe she was able to see more thanks to her glowing irises.
The woman touched the doorknob and opened the doors slowly. A bright light hit her in the eyes and when she was able to see again, she saw it was a very huge and high room. When she came inside, Alice realized what it truly resembled, looking at the walls and many frescoes which were covering them.
The paintings presented the whole beginning of Underland. The Darkness, the Light and the birth of each and every concept and most important events. It looked like an enormous map spreaded on the walls, ceiling and the floor. Alice was able to recognize Time there, as well as Fate, Destiny, Sound… many more characters and finally… Space*. The man catched her eye for the longest. He was wearing white pants and a shirt with constellations on it. His hair looked like very light golden spikes, kind of like sparkly-bright flames with a hint of orange color. His skin was light and looked like it was glowing too. As she remembered, he was the carekeeper over the entire universe, including planets and stars with the sun. Some parts of his body were missing and were filled with "space" pieces. He was like a fleeting creature, made out of the contents of the world like nebulas, gases, stars etc.