The Strange Peculiar Bizarre Town Alice, Alex And Malice Part Four

 The Observations

Danté had become quite concerned about Melinda. She had not seen him for an entire day. Yet he knew, even though she had her troubles, mainly brought about by the town, she would always find some time to pay him a visit.

So, in the morning, he looked at her through the window. The first thing that he spotted that was out of place was she was wearing a dress. With any ordinary girl he would not have bat an eyelid but with Melinda, the only times she ever wore a dress was when Vyteuatas put one on her and the second was when she was in the hospital. The second red flag was the pink ribbon in her platted hair. It had been half a year and he had still yet to see her anything pink. So he decided to ask her about this.

He knocked on the door and Jaden answered.

"Good morning Danté."

"Good morning Jaden. Tell me Mel, are you alright?"

She looked up at him and gave him an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry, sir. I'm Alice."

This was the final red flag.

"Tell me. Where is Melinda?"

"She disappeared, sir!"

He nodded.

She must have visited the clown. Although I can hardly blame her. I would have done too if I was in her position. 

"Do you know anything about the clown?"

She looked down and frowned.

"No. Sorry, I don't. But if I find anything, I will let you know!"

He smiled.

"It is quite alright. I hope that you have a nice day."

"Thank you, sir!"

She soon left. He left. He jumped up and flew. As he did he noticed that her mannerisms had changed too. Melinda would usually wolf everything down, but not e she seemed to mind her manners and acted like a well behaved child.

While she was at school, he watched her the entire morning. There seemed nothing out of the ordinary. The girl seemed better off. The only thing that made him concerned was a group of female bullies walked up to her and tormented her until she cried. Yet there seemed to be a strange tension in the air. One that he could not put into words.

Then came the news, one of the teachers had burnt to death last night. He was found as a pile on the fly when his house burnt down.

This rattled the girl slightly. Yet all was normal. Then lunch came. She went into the ladies and changed into a pair of trousers and her hair hung loose. She has an edgy look in her eyes. Almost like someone who would do what she wanted and could not care less about the consequences. Like a juvenile delinquent.

She went about her day. Yet the moment that the bullies walked up to her he knew something was going on.

"Is it Alice or Alex?" One with blond hair and brown eyes.

Danté's eyes widened.

So she has seen the clown!

"Who's Alice?"

"Your other half? Didn't you know?"

She rolled her eyes.

"So that's why I keep finding myself in a dress and ribbon!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah. I loved bullying her! Now tell me, how would you like it if I made Matilda cry? After all, she does have a lot of blood on her hands. I bet she feels so guilty. Maybe she was the one who offed-"

Alex hit her in the face. She gave another punch and another and another. The other girls ran to her. She then turned her attention to them and punched one after the other. None of them stood a chance.

"Detention!" Shouted another teacher with grey hair and brown eyes.

The other girls smiled. She noticed this as the leader stuck her tongue out at her. She rolled her eyes as she made her way to the teacher. She remained in detention for an hour and then she left.

He noticed nothing out of the ordinary for the rest of the day. Then nightfall came. He thought that he could take a quick nap until he heard the window open. He saw Melinda dressed in all black in the corner of his eye. She ran over the fence like a cat. He then followed her until she saw the girl approach the group of bullies from earlier.

"Alex? Or is it Alice?"

She let a wicked smile on her lips.

"Neither."

"Oh? Then who are you?" The blonde asked mockingly.

"Malice." She said as a ring of fire rose up around them.

They all looked around. Some screamed. Then they looked at her, who was beaming with nothing but malice. Yet suddenly the ones that screamed stopped and frowned.

"What? What's going on?"

Malice chuckled.

"What? Can't handle a little fire?" She laughed.

"What? Are you- you FREAK!"

At this she chuckled as the ring of fire decreased in size.

"I'm a freak?" She scoffed with a cold tone. "Who was it that was bullying Alice? Who was it that made her cry? Who was it that threatened to do the same to Matilda? Who was it that played victim when you finally got a well-deserved beatdown from Alex? What? Don't you get any discipline at home?"

At this they charged at her. She kicked one in the stomach and grabbed the girl by the throat. She twisted her hand and threw her to the others. She punched them in the throat. One pulled out a pocket knife. She went to strike her but she bit a chunk out of her wrist. She caught the knife and slit her throat before she could have time or chance to scream. Then the curtain of fire rose high blocking his view. Danté then heard more screams.

"You can kill the others! Just don't kill me! Please, I'll change, I swear!" He heard the leader scream. 

Then the fire dropped. There was nothing but Malice and several piles of ash. She was about to notice him when he ran.

He knew that he had what he needed to. If he stayed any moment longer, then he too would be a pile of ash. What was clear was one, she had gone to the clown, two, she now has three personalities; Alice, a pure of heart kind of girl, Alex, a tropical juvenile delinquent and Malice, an evil sociopath. Finally Alice and Alex knew nothing about each other. The only one that seemed to be aware of the other two waa Malice.

He knew that he needed to get to Jaden. He had to tell her as soon as he could. He felt something give way beneath him and all went black.