forum Red Queen, Blue Kingdom (closed)

Started March 30, 2018 by @blue_topaz

tune

(holy—–)

Scarley milled around in the ballroom, dancing with random men. Her gaze drifted to Cade.

Cade watched as Willow left the ballroom. A guard had replaced the Queen and he handed the guard his invitation, bowing as he did.

She sobbed, and curled up into a ball, curly hair covering her eyes, screaming and crying, “STOP IT, PLEASE!”
Alice cooed, “So polite. But choose now, or I’ll kill both of them.”
Willow didn’t say a word, she couldn’t. The queen frowned and then held onto the woman’s neck, choking her while the man screamed for Willow to choose him, to kill him. But the woman was already dead. Alice smiled and swung her knife, digging it into the man’s neck, and then licking the blood off of the blade. Willow didn’t want this, she never wanted this and she was screaming, but not only at the queen, but at herself for wanting to taste the blood. The queen smiled, “It was all your fault, you know that, right?”
Willow sobbed, nodding.

Cade noticed the princess look over at him. He smirked at her, making his way over to her. "What's the look for?"

As soon as Harper was past the guards, she followed Scarlet closely, a dagger hidden in her sleeve if there was an emergency.

(POOR WILLOW NOOOOOOOOO)

Scarlet finished dancing with a particularely chatty man and drifted away.

Cade noticed the princess look over at him. He smirked at her, making his way over to her. "What's the look for?"

"Hmm? Oh–nothing." That was a lie.

He nodded, still smirking and not believing her. "Sure Princess." Cade strolled away and began dancing with a girl that must have been a few years younger than him.

“I wonder, if you’re like they say you are. You have regenerative abilities, right? Does this mean that I can eat some of you?” the queen took a step closer and held onto Willow’s hand, “I’ll have to make sure you actually can.” Alice raised her knife and brought it down on Willow’s pinkie, it instantly grew back, but Willow could still feel the pain. “Ooh! How fun!” she chopped it off again and collected the blood into a bucket, “I want that bucket to overflow with your blood.”
“Please stop, please.” Willow’s voice was shaky and desperate and barely a whisper.
The queen’s face hardened, “Don’t you know that “please” never works?” she brought the knife down on Willow’s fingers, again and again and again. “You’re such a nice pet. I’ll postpone your friends’ deaths for later.”

(holy——– NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)

Scarlet scoffed, turning away from Cade and trying to collect her thoughts.

“NO!! Just kill me, please. It’s better to be hurt than it is to hurt others.”
“Foolish girl!” Alice chopped off Willow’s hand, making Willow scream, “Do you like being hurt?! You don’t, do you!? Say it. Say it! It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt. Say it!”
Willow choked out the words, her tears falling onto the bloodied stump of her hand that was already growing back. “It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt!”
“That’s right!” the queen laughed, “Say it again!”
“It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt!!” Willow screamed, throat hoarse.
“SAY IT AGAIN!”
Willow’s face and clothes were wet with tears and the bucket that Alice had set down to catch Willow’s blood was nearly half-full, but she had to respond, “IT IS BETTER TO HURT OTHERS THAN IT IS TO BE HURT!!!”
The queen screamed, “SAY IT AGAIN!!!!”
“IT IS BETTER TO HURT OTHERS THAN IT IS TO BE HURT!” Willow screamed, frozen to the ground, sobbing.

The girl looked up at Cade, her flirty smirk visible under her mask. He suddenly became very uncomfortable. "I'll be right back." He told the girl, not planning on returning.

“All of this is your fault! The man and woman’s deaths, your friend Major’s death, everything! You are weak and helpless and all of this is your fault!” the queen spat at Willow’s face, “Say it!”
Tears streamed down Willow’s face, “I’m weak and helpless and all of this is my fault!
“Say it again!”
“I’M WEAK AND HELPLESS AND ALL OF THIS IS MY FAULT!!” Willow dropped to the ground, heart shattering.
“Say. It. Again.” the queen pulled every single flower from Willow’s hair, crushing them with her nails.
And that was the moment that Willow shattered.

It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
She leapt up and grabbed the knife out of the queen’s hands, holding it against Alice’s throat. Alice laughed, “Getting feisty, now aren’t we?” but she wasn’t laughing when Willow grabbed her from behind and held her onto the ground. Willow held the knife to the queen’s hand and chopped it off, then her other hand, and then her feet and then her neck.

Scarlet walked away quickly from a much older man pursuing her. almost bumping into Cade.

It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
It is better to hurt others than it is to be hurt.
She leapt up and grabbed the knife out of the queen’s hands, holding it against Alice’s throat. Alice laughed, “Getting feisty, now aren’t we?” but she wasn’t laughing when Willow grabbed her from behind and held her onto the ground. Willow held the knife to the queen’s hand and chopped it off, then her other hand, and then her feet and then her neck.

welp then

Blood splattered onto Willow’s face and she kept hacking at the queen’s lifeless body, hacking until the queen wasn’t recognizable, stabbing Alice’s chest until Alice wasn’t Alice anymore and Willow wasn’t Willow anymore. She reached down and pulled Alice’s heart out of her chest, licking the blood off of it and sinking her teeth down into the pink, fleshy fat of the heart. It tasted so sweet. So sweet.
Willow grinned and finished the heart off, licking her fingers and then, when she was done, she kicked the queen’s lifeless body and made her way towards the others, white dress soaked in blood, with flowerless hair and her soul split into two sides, each fighting a battle. The sane one and the insane one. Guess which one was winning?

Cade grinned at the princess as he passed her before walking over to the wall so he wouldn't have to dance with that one girl.

(@NERD oh my god what have you done…)

Scarlet was getting desperate, the man would not stop following her, so she went over to Cade. "Dance with me please, there's a creepy guy following me.", she hissed under her breath.

Willow stepped onto the platform where the thrones were. "The queen is dead."

Cade shrugged. "Alright." He took her hand and led her towards the center of the ballroom, but not directly in the center.

Scarletès head snapped up and her eyes widened. Oh my god Willow stop!!! She ran forward.

"And I will be too." Willow looked at Scarlet, "Scarling, would you do me the honors of death? Before I can't stop myself?"

Cade looked up at Willow, shaking his head. No Willow….not now… He mouthed.