Aiko nodded and then as he took her hands, she watched as her viens glowed blue. Those two seconds felt very long as she felt her head get light and her body grow tired. When the Hatter let go, she found herself watching in shock as he coughed up blood, and green something with it. The doctor rushed over, and moved to start cleaning up everything. Aiko nodded and then pulled her hands away from the Hatter. "Then we shall start your training and I will issue a search for your assailant. When you are well."

"my book is of the admost importance. I need it now." He said as he sat up and his injuries were less severe as time went quickly. "That green stuff is acidic and toxic" Michael said standing up and stratching. Grabbing his scythe he looked at Akio and motioned for her to lead towards the training grounds

Walking slowly and with grace, Aiko nodded. Her heels made no sound as she walked through the amazing and lavish halls of the palace. "My family has always been rich in magical blood, and we hold in our possession a collection of books holding knowledge over these magics." she explained, many servants bowing to her and averting their gaze. "I believe that these books will help you until we retrieve the man who stole your own text." the Queen said smoothly and glanced over to the Hatter. "How are you faring?"

"Alchemy and necromancy." He said without hesitation. "And if you have little of that, conjuration" He said knowing what he needed right away. He looked at angi-kat. "I need to shapren him" Hatter pointed a sickly white finger at his scythe's pole, and almost as if by just refferencing the weapon it began to glow a dark green. "No, not now Angi" he said speaking with the weapon,

Listening to the Hatter, Aiko nodded. "my fathe was a necromancer, so I think we have the perfect books for you." she said and entered the library and walked into the secret room. She then pulled out an aged leather book that was very large and set it upon a reading stand. "Will this suffice?" she asked lightly and watched the male approach the book.

"It should keep me alive for now till I can remake my body. By the way I'm gonna need an alchemist book and some supplies." He said thumbing threw the book quickly hunting for a couple quick spells. "IM also going to need chalk and some food. Im quite famished."

Nodding to the darkly dressed and odd male, Aiko moved to snap her fingers. The servant outside the door stepped in and bowed to her. "Go do as the man said and be back swiftly, we have no time to waste." the beauty said smoothly, making the servant nod, bow, and leave the room as swiftly as he had appeared. Sighing softly, the queen unbuttoned her lonng black coat, revealing her beautiful dress she had been in for the professional opera. The dress was talored just to her, and there was nothing like it in the kingdom, yet. The beautiful blues bringing out her vibrant eyes. Pulling out her fan that matched her dress, the Queen waved it slowly, the air movement welcomed upon her face as she watched the Hatter do whatever he had to. This man was odd, but intrieging.

Yanking the ingrediants he asked for from the servants. He began to write out symbols with the chalk. A large circle, the circle was at least 9 feet in diameter. "Now i could get Joshua and Megan here. Remove their heads and use their bodies for my own. No.... It'll be a while before they can regenerate their bodies and i might need their help against him" Hatter passed back and forward, he took on the appearance of a mad man talking to himself of the next dangerous experiment. "No, i need my ghouls. I should just remake sections of my body and attach them. Oh Princess!" Michael called out to her. "This procedure is going to result in me undressing and summoning some helpers. I don't know how you feel about being in the room with undead and naked men. Just warning you" He set to working on the circle and yelled some things in a dead arcane language and summoned two foul looking ghouls.

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Aiko watched as the Hatter began pacing. His muttering and look in his yes added to his crazy looks. Shaking her head slowly, the young queen watched him as he kept going. His words making absolutely no sense, and she turned to look out the window. Her thoughts moving to how she would take care of the Hatter. He would be a valuable addition to her powerful guards, but the way he appeared would look very, distasteful to most. Suddenly his callto her made the raven haired female turn around and raise an eyebrow at the ghouls. "No, please do what you need to do." she said smoothly.

One of the ghouls began moving towards Aiko. "NO Megan!" The ghoul looked at Hatter and began to say something. "no You may not eat her" "No she's not on the menu" "No, if you try i will bisect you with Angi" He said and the scythe began to glow. He began to summon a second body for himself, it looked pale and dead. "Now if only i had my book" He looked over at the beautiful women that was the queen. "I'm going to need a razor sharp sword"

Aiko watched the ghoul come at her calmly, honestly barely unnerved at all that the beings were in her personal library. Raising an eyebrow as the Hatter began speaking to the ghoul, well more like scolding it, she folded her hands together. She watched as the dead body was summoned, and frowned slightly hearing him. She didn't want him using her sword, but she didn have to offer her own. Clapping twice, the female watched as the servant stepped inside. "I need your sword soldier." she said smoothly, walking up to the male. He drew his sword, and settled the blunt part of the blade on her offered hands. "That is all." Aiko said smoothly and then once be left she turned to the Hatter. "Will this suffice?"

"yes that will do just fine." He removed all of his clothing without even giving head to her. He sat down cross legged and looked at the queen over his shoulder. "This is going to get messy" Hatter took the blade to the underside of his arm first and began to cut it off, he bit his lip hard enough to draw blood and he cut off his own arm. He would just cut off one limb and hand it to his ghoul, and reattach the other. This went on for nearly 2 hours as Hatter had to stop because he would either die of blood lose or go into shock. Eventually after much blood was spilled and a bit of screaming.... Michael had preformed his terrible act to continue his own life

Aiko shook her head as she moved to stand behind him, not wanting to see him naked. Watching as he moved the sword she gasped as he began to cut off his own body part, to remake his body. Shuddering and looking away, tears spilled down her cheeks. For two hours she paced and tried not to look at the horror that was happening before her eyes, trying not to let his screams shake her. When he finished, she shuddered seeing all the blood, and slowly took a single step towards him. "Are you alright, Michael?" she asked in a hushed voice, fearing for the poor man's life.

"I'm fine, for now. This body is only temporary" He said as he stood. But with every muscle movement their was a sickening of bone popping into place. The skin was merging its self onto his own as the limbs took their connections. He stopped bleeding as the wounds magically healed themselves. The bones seased their herendously loud popping and cracking noise as he straightened up. He dressed and told the ghoul's to remove the blood. They went to work using a magic he had taught them to hide and clean anything. Once he clothes were on he put a hand on the princess's shoulder. "I'm sorry you had to see that" there was sympathy in his eyes.

Hearing the sickening pops coming from the man's body as he straightened, Aiko turned her head away and shuddered to herself. Finally when the sound stopped, she turned to see the ghouls moving to clean the mess of blood up, and Michael approached her. Feeling his cold hand on her shoulder, she looked into his eyes. Her eyes glowing with welling tears in her eyes. Having been trained as a warrior, she shouldn't be moved by the blood shed and pain he had gone through, but she was not a true warrior. She was the Queen, she cared for all life, and personally she hated seeing anyone in pain. Taking his hand from her shoulder, she pressed a kiss to his hand and then looked up into his eyes, a tear sliding down her cheek. "Please tell me you will not have to go through that ever again..." she breathed, worry for him in her eyes.

"Not if we find my book." He said with a distached tone. He never understood women really and their emotions. The man was confused as she kissed his hand and watched as she almost cried. "Please don't cry, tears don't need to be shed for me. Anything else we need to do right now?" He asked feeling his body re-attach itself to itself. He felt his body cry out in pain and try to reject the new limbs but he had to ignore it for now, her her, she needed him.

Aiko nodded slowly and let go of his hand, letting it fall as she reached up to wipe away the single tear streak. Wiping away the welling tears as well, she moved away from him slightly and nodded. "Right, I am here to off you a job proposition..." she said and cleared her tone away from the sadness and fear she held for his life. "What would you say if I offered you a job here at the palace? You will be paid well, fed, and training your skills with all the knowledege we hold here will be manditory." she said smoothly, going back into Queen mode. She understood this man did not care for her, or if he did at all it was very little, so she had to make sure that the deal couldn't be passed up. "You will start mainly here at the palace, but when you have grown loyal and strong enough, you will become an agent for taking care of... Strict buisness."

"hmmmmm... And if I decline? Not saying I would. But i have to know how much I'm wanted/needed" He said as his ghouls walked up to him and sat down on each side of him. He rubbed both of their heads. "good job you two" He praised them and they both smiled a bloody, disgusting smile or rotting flesh and missing dagger-like teeth. "You two can leave" and with that they both stood up and seemed to vanish into thin air.

Aiko looked to Michael and then towards the ghouls. Shaking her head and doing her best to dispel the images of him cutting his limbs off, the female looked into his eyes. "We are at war, whether the public knows it or not." she said smoothly, looking at him seriously. "Our land is rich in magic, and has the biggest number of people with powers in the whole world. Other countries want this magic and power, and are trying to infiltrate the country." she said smoothly and then looked at the floor before raising her head again. "Right now I'm putting together armies of our gifted people, and they are going to need a strong, fearless leader who knows strategy... I believe that you are quite fitting for the job, and for now I'm in need of a personal guard... Mine was killed this night actually. It was why we were swiftly making it back to the palace when I found you." she said smoothly. "I can defend myself, but in trying times as this, precaution is a wise thing." she explained seriously. "Will you take the job?"

"Well if I'm going to be your guard. I'm going to need a few things. Since most of the things i require I could NEVER acquire at my old house. I need a few materials for my magic." Hatter began to rattle off a few things he needed. "I need my book, blood of the caster: my own blood, Sulfer, and then i would like to research on how to make my ghouls more intellegence." He looked at them both and patted their heads. "They are about as smart as a 4 year old"

Aiko nodded taking in everything he needed and then there was a knock on the door. She opened it and the darkly dressed male handed her the Hatter's book. "Your book." she said smoothly and then handed it to Michael. "Now we have sulfur in the doctor's office, and your studies can be achieved." she added.

There was a long silence, Hatter looked his book. "hope he didn't tag it..." He muttered to himself. He opened his book and began to go threw the book as quick as he can, found a page.... He staired at it in awe and couldn't muster his rage filled shout, at least for the first few second. The well composed man suddenly lost it all, he began to yell at the top of his lungs. "THAT SON-OF-A-BITCH TOOK THE PAGE I NEEDED, TO KEEP MYSELF ALIVE! HE TOOK IT" He yelled and hurled his book as far as he could and he sat down with his legs curled. "I'm going to actually die now..." Michael muttered to himself, over and over.

Aiko watched as Michael went through his book. Hearing the male she stepped to the side as the book was hurdled across the room, keeping her poise as it barely missed her head and hit the wall. Watching the odd man completely freak out she looked to him and then walked over to him smoothly as he crumpled to the ground. Putting a hand on his shoulder she then sighed before speaking. "We have your assailant. I will get the page from him. Please stay here." she said smoothly, heading for the door. She pulled the gloves off of her hands as she did, and her eyes hardened. Once again, she would use her family's curse upon an individual to get what she wanted. Only few had witnessed her powers in use, and it was never a pretty sight. The Queen believed in only using them when needed, but this was a need. She wouldn't let the Hatter die because of a stupid selfish pig.

"Nope." He said as he was told to stay. "he has taken something of mine, so i will take something of his." Michael followed after grabbing his book and flipped threw the pages till he found a certain one, he followed the princess not taking his eyes of her for even a second. "Where is he, I'll deal with him"

Stopping in her tracks, Aiko turned her teal eyes upon the Hatter and nearly smacked him. her eyes only narrowed though, and she kept herself calm. "Michael, you are in my palace, and under my protection, whether you believe it or not. This man hasn't just hurt you, no, he is an old aquiantance of mine that I must throw in line." she said and then turned to him fully. "If you take this job, and end up like him, I wont be kind. I will kill you, harshly, painfully, and slowly." she said coldly and then continued walking through the halls, and into another palace room. It was the training room of her guards and agents, and as soon as she saw him, her eyes glowed. He screamed and fell to his knees, and when her eyes stopped glowing, he stopped screaming. Walking to face him face to face Aiko was not looking pleased. "Queen, good to see you as well." the breathless man said and her lips became a hard line. "I'm so happy to see you, traitor. You should have left the country while you had the chance." she said coldly, her back slowly beginning to glow as she mounted her power. The glow came through the back of her dress, and the male looked paler seeing this. "Give me the book page. I will not ask again nicely." Aiko said, her voice hinting at the anger that burned in her eyes.