Alice and the Wicked.

When I awoke I forgot all about the void of darkness. The first thing on my mind was where Alice was? Whether it be I was scared of her or just curious about her. But now that I was awake I realized I was different. Something was different about me and I didn't know what. Just then Alice emerged from the darkness and asked " Do you feel different. That's good because your not alive anymore. "

I was confused how could I not be alive, I mean I'm breathing right? Just then I realized what was different. My heart, it wasn't beating. I pressed my hand on my chest to make sure. It definitely was not beating. " How am I still alive?! " I exclaimed. " You aren't alive. You are simply just existing by the grace of Alice Lavigne that being me of course. " " How is that possible? " I asked. " I do not know myself Ray. All I know is I was blessed with extraordinary power. The power to control blood and all the quantities and quirks that come with it.". " That doesn't really answer my question also how do you know my name? " I said.

" I mean we were in your house Ray, and to answer your question basically I have granted you the same powers as me. " That also didn't answer any of my questions either. I asked " So how do your powers have anything to do with why I'm still conscious. " " As I said Ray, my power is blood manipulation. When I stabbed you in the heart I dropped a piece of my blood in your heart granting you the powers of blood manipulation. Right now you don't need a heart to regulate blood flow throughout your whole body you just manipulate it throughout your body. Granting you the ability to move and think without a heart. " So basically I'm just a sack of meat and bones being carried by my blood essentially. " So, what all can I do with these blood powers. " I asked. She responded with annoyance in her voice " There are lots of things that come with blood manipulation, blood manipulation isn't just moving blood, you can also increase the amount of blood cells you have rapidly, essentially giving you infinite amount of blood. You have infinite blood but that doesn't mean you can lose a bunch of it, lose too much of the blood and you essentially die again. "

I listened carefully to her words. At first I thought everything she was saying was a lie. But then she gave me a demonstration of her power. She slit her wrist and blood spewed out but it didn't fall to the ground nor did she die. It just kept coming until it stopped the wound closed up and the blood was just frozen in the air until the blood flowed into her hand and formed into a sword, a red sword made of blood.

" This is one of the more simpler techniques. " she said. The sword was cool and all but for some reason I was more interested in how she healed her wound. " How did your wound heal so quick? " I asked. " Aw, so you caught that good. The reason my wounds healed so fast were because I produced more white blood cells called macrophages. Blood manipulation isn't just moving blood like I said earlier anything blood can do you can essentially do it but thousands of times better then regular blood, and that includes all the types of blood cells and the things in blood. " Now that I thought about it being able to control blood is kinda cool. " Last question about blood manipulation. Could I control other peoples blood? " I asked. She froze for a minute and waited for a moment. " Yes but no. Manipulating other peoples blood is very hard skill to learn almost impossible. But controlling dead peoples blood is very easy as gruesome as sounds. "

I thought on that for a moment. Why did she seem so hesitant to answer that question? There was definitely something more to that technique then she let on. She spoke again " Now enough about blood manipulation. I have a lot to cover and very little time to cover it. First you are my pupil or student of sorts, successor if you want. I will teach you everything I've learned about blood manipulation and you will replace me. " I pondered on that for a minute " replace me " she said, what's that mean. " I've been looking for someone for awhile that was able to survive the blood transfusion, you are the first of many to ever actually survive it. " she said vaguely. I stared at her blank faced, there were others before me? And they died during the transfusion? How many had she killed before me?

I guess she figured out that I was trying to piece things together. " Don't worry none of them went through with the transfusion without knowing the consequences nor did I force anyone to do it. " I just met her but yet I trusted her word. She had no reason to lie about that and I knew she wasn't lying because their was a certain sadness in her voice when she said it. She interrupted my thoughts again and said " Second once you have mastered all the blood techniques you are to fight, kill, and exterminate the * Wicked * . " Once again there it was, the * Wicked * . Kinda hard to fight something when you have no idea what it is. Suddenly the atmosphere changed in the room. " Ray, you shouldn't take this things light hearted, the* Wicked* are living natural disasters. They're monsters and live for one thing and that's to kill humans. The more they kill the stronger they get. You can base the* Wicked* abilities by the type of natural disaster they are, you've already experienced one in action. That tornado was no regular tornado it was a wind type * Wicked* they can control wind and the atmosphere. The other three types are fire, water, and earth. They all correlate to different natural disasters. Some of them are stronger then others depending on how many human lives they've taken. The low ranking ones are usually tall with a human like build but extremely muscular they come in colors that correlate with their *Wicked* type . High ranking ones are the ones that are worrisome. Ray, if you ever stumble upon one run as fast as you can, even I can barely take them down. The scariest thing about them is that high rankers look like regular humans. As far as I know their are only four high rankers that exist. Finally there's the Queen * Wicked* she can control all four elements if you even see her Ray it's already too late, the most I could do at full power to her was wound her. " I listened I didn't interrupt her once to ask a question like I usually did, it might've been because I was too scared to ask about them or it was the pure bloodlust she was letting off when talking about them. I just knew to let her say her piece uninterrupted. There was something lingering in the back of my head though. A question I was itching to ask her the whole time I've been around her. And that was " Alice what are you? " . She paused for a moment then smirked at me and said " I am the balance, the revenger, I was born from the blood of the people that all the * Wicked * have slain. I was born for one purpose and one purpose only. Kill them all. " and with that I knew exactly what Alice was, she was * Death * incarnate.