Cloudy's Lore
The Alice Arc
There was a girl named Alice who lived in the woods with her mother, a witch, named Lucile. Alice is part Oni from her father and part witch from her mother. In this world, monsters are deemed evil by humans, and for decades have been outcasted in fear. Lucile took Alice to the woods for safety to keep her away from humans, after Alice’s father had been killed by them.When Alice is 10 she meets a boy that can turn into a wolf in the woods, and Alice, having been alone except for her mother all these years, builds a secret friendship with him. His name is Knight. Knight is actually from a royal monster family, which has been fighting hard for many years to gain more rights for monsters to live with humans once again.Alice slowly met Knight’s family and they accepted her with open arms, including Knight’s parents and his two younger twin siblings, Sword, and shield. She often played with them until she had to go home. One day however, Lucile had caught Alice sneaking out of the castle and confronted her. Lucile was scared, seeing that the royal family had been dealing a lot with heavy attacks from humans. Alice, being too young, didn’t care. She was more afraid of being alone again than the danger she could run into. She pushed her mother away and ran back into the castle.Everyone there tried comforting her, but she felt guilty leaving her mother behind… Knight’s mother let her stay the night in a guest room. She couldn’t sleep however, she kept tossing and turning. She then left the guest room and began trying to sneak out. She wanted to see her mom and apologize. Knight caught her, but instead of convincing her to stay, he agreed to escort her home.As they left in the middle of night, they were in the woods when they suddenly realized they weren’t alone. They began running toward Alice’s home, but they couldn’t run fast enough… the people attacking the area had guns and seemed intent on hunting monsters, not food. Alice and Knight avoiding the gun fire, but unfortunately they couldn’t avoid a nearby explosion. They crashed to the floor next to each other, hand-in-hand.Alice’s vision grew blurry and she cried in agony. She was only 10 and wasn’t strong enough to save them, and all she could see was Knight next to her, unresponsive. She used the only spell she knew, a healing one for him. Knight woke up immediately, turning to Alice, who had turned sickly pale. He tried shaking her but she didn’t respond.Lucile heard all of the noises and just made it to Alice and Knight, but she was too late. She didn’t have time for grief, she had to do something. She grabbed her daughter, carrying her away from everything and taking her home. Knight tried to follow, but his mother finally found him and made him stay with her.Lucile finally back at the cabin began doing her best, turning the whole place over, trying to find anything that could save her daughter, to bring her back. She found one thing that she believed would work, and began the process. It took a few days, but finally Alice woke up. But she was different.Her usual white hair was now blue like the sky. Her beautiful brown and hazel eyes, now blue like the ocean. Her face and horns were the only things that were same. Lucile took no time to run up to her and hug her closely. Alice didn’t hug back at all. She didn’t say anything at all. Lucile finally pulled back and wiped her own tears.She looked again at her daughter… to her daughter’s eyes, and it was like Alice was looking at a stranger. Alice had none of her memories. She didn’t know her own mother, herself, her friends… that she even died. It was like she was someone else entirely.Lucile tried her best to do the tests she can, anyway to get her daughter back to how she was supposed to be. Nothing worked. Lucile often saw … Alice … Look to the sky as if she yearned or missed it dearly.Lucile considered getting rid of her, grieving her daughter and the fact she lost her, however… when she looked at her face she couldn’t do it. She decided to keep her and raise her as if she was Alice. Force her to be the replacement of her daughter. They left Alice’s and Lucile’s old home and went somewhere harder to find. So nothing could happen to their small family again.
To Be Continued!