All Rules Broken

Feline Joker

It was just a normal day in Wonderland. Julius was working. Nightmare was avoiding Gray, who was trying to get Nightmare to do his work for once. Blood was in his office while the twins were arguing with Elliot. Boris was chasing Pierce and Gowland was "playing" the violin while everyone in the park ran away in fear. Vivaldi was ordering beheadings left and right. Peter was of course stalking Alice, and Ace was lost... again. Everything was as it should be, until "she" appeared.

The two Jokers were in the prison, standing in front of one of the empty prison cells. The two were completely different, yet still shared the same face. White Joker, as Alice had nicknamed him, was calm and polite, while Black Joker, also nicknamed by Alice, was rude and loudmouthed. It's amazing that the two were able to get along, most of the time. This particular day was different. They had been fighting all day over absolutely nothing. I guess it was expected of them. How could you expect two complete opposites to get along all the time?

Black's voice was loud enough to alert nearly every prisoner in the prison, while White's calm voice could barely be heard over Black shouting every profanity anyone had ever heard of. Nobody even knew what they were fighting about. Nobody was brave enough to ask. Eventually the two stopped and angrily went their separate ways. Now, although the Jokers didn't know it, their conflict had caused something very unusual to happen.

Somewhere, in the other end of the prison, a very confused girl sat up to find herself in a prison cell. She was very young, only around the age of eight. She had red hair with black cat ears and pale gray eyes, although one eye was covered by her hair. She was wearing a black and red checkered skirt with a white shirt underneath a black vest. Her tail hung out under her skirt. It was jet black with red streaks. She also had knee high black boots with striped socks. A black bow was placed in her hair and she had long black fingerless gloves and a black choker.

The girl looked around and felt very scared. She had no recollection of anything at all. Where she was, who she was, it was all a mystery. The girl stood up and walked over to the cell door. She pushed on it, but as expected, it was locked. Scared and confused, she sat down on the ground and did what any little girl would do in this situation. She cried. She cried loudly, but nobody was around to hear her. She was far from the rest of the prisoners, and the Jokers were nowhere near her. So she had to sit there crying in the cold jail cell alone, waiting for someone to come rescue her.

Later, both the Jokers were doing the rounds around the prison. It was quiet, for neither one was speaking to the other. They were both still a little bitter about what had happened earlier. As they walked on, a faint sound of crying was heard. That wasn't unusual, it was a prison after all, so they both ignored it. But the further they walked, the louder and more distinctive it got, until eventually, White turned to his counterpart.

"Do you hear that? It sounds like a child." White said as he listened more closely.

"Yeah, where the fuck is it coming from?" Black said as he looked around for the source of the sound.

"I think it came from over there." White said, pointing down one of the many prison halls. The two of them walked quickly toward the sound until they stopped in front of one the cells. When they peered in, they were surprised to see a small girl sitting in the middle of the cell with her back to them. White suddenly turned to Black and glared.

"Did you lock up one of the jester children again?" He asked angrily, considering it had happened many times before whenever they had gotten on his nerves.

"No! I don't know who the fuck that is!" Black said. The small girl, hearing their voices, turned around hesitantly, shaking slightly from fear. When they could see her face, they both went silent. They were shocked, not just by the fact that she had a face, but also because of the remarkable resemblance she had to them. They both snapped out of it and White found his voice.