Note: sorry I wasn't updating in a lil, I have homework 😔
Gilbert walked through the hallways of the clubs castle when he finally found them. The royals.
"Gilbert? What are you doing here?" Roderich asked him as he saw him in the corridors of the castle.
"Oh, hey! Just wanted to check up on you guys. It's been a good month since the...war with...the colorless guy so...I came to check. How's Daniel and anneliesse going? And Marie?" Gilbert asked as he walked along side Roderich to the gardens
"They're well. But you never visit us, what's the special occasion?" Roderich asked finally both getting to the gardens
"Well....I would like to hold a meeting with all of you, since I knew today you all were going to be here, since it's her birthday"
"Yes, elizavetas birthday is today, I'm glad you remembered. Please tell me you brought her a gift?" Roderich asked as he looked through the garden looking for his wife.
"Gift? Uh-yeah...sure..." Gilbert mumbled as he picked a rose and held it in his hands turning it into a necklace.
"Seriously? You forgot a present for her, yet you make one last minute.how careless can you be Gilbert? But anyways...thank you" Roderich said as fixed his glasses and began walking towards Elizavéta and her guests, the other royals.
Elizavéta was getting gifts from Arthur, lily, Kiku, Francis, Alfred,yao, Feleciano, Ludwig, even basch and Ivan. Gilbert smiled as he saw her familiar smile and kept walkin until he joined the group.
"Oh! Gilbert!! Hey!" Liz greeted with a smile. Gilbert smiled and held out his gift.
"It was last minute, but I hope you like it" he mumbled as he blushed slightly. Roderich tensed up in the background.
Elizavéta smiled and laughed, "that doesn't seem like you, doing things last minute. But... Thank you, the necklace is gorgeous" she said as she held it in her hands. "Could you help me put this on?" She asked him. Roderich tensed up even more,
"I-uh-sure" Gilbert mumbled as the Hungarian Queen held her hair out of her Necks way, and Gilbert placed the necklace on her,
"Thanks! It's beautiful!" She commented with a smile, sending Gilbert to disappear. He was a joker, but he was still blushing somehow.
"Fuck...she keeps doing that smile of hers..." Gilbert mumbled as he was now, back in his own world but he sighed deeply as he returned back to their world. Every Royal looked at him confused at his sudden disappearance "Sorry...I had a minor...magic thing going on" Gilbert excused himself.
Arthur smiled, knowing he was throwing lies at them but it was whatever.
"What brings you here Joker? Da?"
" I wanted to ask. What happened to Alice Kirkland, you know your girl double, Arthur. And Noah zwingli, lily's male double. Sakura is dead. Daniel is here, living happily at the side of the girls he loves..." Gilbert began saying as Daniel who was tending the roses got red. Anneliesse looked at him, and slightly smirked as Marie, only sat down to hear more from the joker.
"I didn't kill Alice, completely, unfortunately. Wasn't she in battle-" Arthur began saying when all the Queens shook their heads in denial.
"Well, she's alive and roaming the forbidden forest. Noah is too, they're looking for the guy who created Oliver...."
"Have they succeeded?" Alfred asked
"Wait...they slowly are...that's why you're here" Arthur commented
"It was also liz's birthday so yeah I came by" gilbert said as he sat down.
"What exactly are they looking for?" Daniel asked
"Well....kiddo....lets start with a backstory okay? But first answer me a question" Gilbert said as he stretched a little
"Yeah?" Daniel asked
"How long has the kingdoms existed?"
"A good...5,000 years" Alfred responded
"Do you remember how the kingdoms began?" Gilbert asked once more
"Well....some say that the royals were hand picked and manufactured by the Deck and The Clock. But others say they were small civilizations started at the same time but p valued different things and favored different colors and so on...why does this matter?" Alfred asked
"What were the names of the first REAL royals?" Gilbert asked
"There was....King Alfred, Queen Natalie, Jack Mr. Wang all from Spades" Alfred said as he began trying to remember history lessons
"King Ivan, queen lizbeth, Jack Roderich from Clubs" Roderich replied
"King Francis, Queen Louise of Monaco, Jack Vasch all royals of Diamonds" Francis said
"King Ludwig, queen bella, Jack Ned" Ludwig said, as he knew his history very well.
"What war did they all go to?" Gilbert asked
"Well it started with spades and clubs arguing no over a marriage alliance, Queen Natalie was originally Clubs, and King Alfred did not want to marry her because....I think he had a lover? But his lover was killed and so Alfred married. Umm...because of that war that lasted 3years...the diamonds rose in wealth because their Jack sold weapons to both sides and Hearts ruled more land. But other than that, the war was stupid. Especially over a marriage" Ludwig commented
Gilbert smiled, "that's my little brother-I mean...sorry....I got carried away" Gilbert mumbled as he tried to remember these Royals were not his friends from long ago.
"And what does this have to do with anything, wanker?" Arthur asked
Gilbert chuckled, and stood up.
"I'll tell you a story...to be specific my story, because I lived since the beginning of the real royals. I used to be human too..." The joker said
"The story begins now.
The first Real Royals were children of ordinary people who were rulers, lords or leaders of a certain civilization. The clock and deck were husband and wife, God and goddess. Ruling together to maintain a kind of peace on earth when the Deck decided to create the Kingdoms themselves. When each leader had their children, in that year. The deck bestowed upon 4 kids a certain ability.
Little Ivan, had too much luck, little Alfred had too much power, little Francis too much wealth and little Ludwig too much heart. That was the beginning of the deck. Their lovers or destined partner did not go according to plan either. The deck had convinced the Clock to bestow magic and power to children who seemed to be calm, and balanced with it. So she chose Little Lizbeth of clubs nobility, knight Arthur of Spades, peasant Lilian of diamonds, physician Kiku of hearts. She made these people the Queens of their nations but people would not admit the Queens the Clock had chosen especially in the kingdom of Spades. The people, parliament and even the father of Alfred could not accept a male Queen, and no heir to the throne.
The forbidden forest used to be full of fairies and magic, but as humans started to hunt them down, the Clock began to make the forest forbidden for humans, she even started creating another world so the fairies and any magical being could live there if they'd like. The deck had slowly become enraged at his expirement fail with what he created so he became a bit mad.
I guess I should, start with what happened to Spades but the thing is I, as Gilbert the joker, I belonged to the nobility of Hearts. I met Lizbeth when I was 12, and she was from a clubs knight family. She was strong, and though the first time I met her she looked like a boy, I still liked her. She was engaged to the Prince of clubs. Ivan Braginsky, but when she ascended the throne as Queen because her crest had appeared...she was no longer happy and smiling. Before ascending the throne, she had met Roderich and even fell in love with him, I was jealous at first because I loved her...but...I just wanted her happiness. I couldn't steal her away from King Ivan or Jack Roderich because I couldn't become King of Hearts since I was more of an illegitimate child and I wasn't strong enough. I watched her, become unhappy with her life, I watched my liebe (love),be taken from her happiness and it certainly broke me. She gave birth to King Ivans heir, and she was happy with her child but Ivan liked to take her child away and train him in combat and give him lessons. She was a woman and had no power to have a say with how her husband could teach her son...she was only the shield of Ivans when it came to battle. Roderich saw lizbeth unhappy and would try his best to make her happy in the castle walls, but he wasn't allowed too close to her or too much time with her.....I later heard King Ivan make a law that King and Queen didn't have to marry forcibly but so long as they married in the Royal Family that the King, queen or Jack could Choose who to marry. I later moved to Diamonds, as I was invited by King Francis himself. We were best friends, we drunk a lot, had a lot of fun nights together but when it came to his personal life...he was afraid of it. King Francis was known as a flirt, a big one. Lovers everywhere. I'm surprised why he didn't have an illegitimate child yet, or why he didn't love His Queen Lilian. Lilian Zwingli was her real full name but I knew her by Lily. Lily loved Francis, but Francis was afraid of dirtying her, with his hands, his reputation. He believed lily was absolutely pure and had to stay pure, because he as her Husband did not want to make her suffer. Francis was an idiot for thinking that because lily believed Francis hated her especially after some noble girl proclaimed Francis had gotten her pregnant. The noble girl was named louise, she was beautiful as well but when lily heard this.....she descended the throne and gave it to Louise. Lily left the palace after a while, and Francis didn't stop her. Francis let her go because he loved her... Vasch Zwingli, the Jack, couldn't repair his sisters, Lily's broken heart, and he couldn't hate the King. So he stayed in the castle walls, while lily left to live quietly in a village close by. Before lily left...she gave her magic to the heir of the throne.
I then later moved back to hearts. My Father despised me, but Ludwig, my younger brother adored me. My father didn't like me because I was illegitimate, and I held no magic the way Ludwig did. Ludwig had too much heart, and so, because he wanted to please everyone, he decided to go into the war Clubs and Spades had created at the time. Kiku was his original Queen but our father would not allow a man to be heir to the Queens throne. So our father arranged a marriage with the Belgians. They offered their most beautiful noble girl, Bella. But in exchange for the marriage, they had to let The Jack that had been chosen by The Deck and Clock to be replaced by Bella's brother, Ned. Ludwig didn't want to replace the Jack because the Jack, Feleciano...was his best friend, but our father ordered it so Feleciano was taken away. Now....I still remember Spades problems! It was....sadly...romantic. Arthur was chosen as Queen, he was originally a Spades Knight. The Kings Knight. Arthur and Alfred had fallen in love since the beginning, no one could deny that but in Spades...a man with another man was unheard of. Alfred's Father and mother absolutely hated Arthur. Alfred was willing to give up his thrown for Arthur, but because he was hand picked by The Deck, his father arranged for an arranged marriage with King Ivans younger sister. Natalie. Alfred protested against it, so he was locked away from Arthur, Arthur had to flea because he was decided to be killed. Natalie became Queen after she arranged for Arthur to be killed, and Arthurs younger brother Peter...he ran to the Forbidden forest and the Clock found him. She kept him safe, for a while. During Arthurs time being a run away and fugitive from Natalie, it was 3 years in which Alfred had proclaimed war against Clubs. When Arthur was finally killed, he was blamed for stealing the Clock that was implanted on his personal being. Alfred had no choice but to accept the betrayal publicly and politically and marry Natalie. The Jack had no saying whatsoever when they asked him if he believed Arthur would betray Alfred......the Deck went mad after Arthurs death, He created a special castle where he could lock The Clock away until he was done with destroying the cardverse world and recreating it. But as he went to battle against all four kingdoms....the Queens with magic and no magic did everything they could to Protect their kingdoms, thus creating the Old Queens Ritual. The old Queens ritual had defeated the Deck and Restored the Clock. Before the Deck went to sleep...he bestowed upon me the curse of being a Joker. As a punishment for watching and never saying anything about the situation. He said "you're a joker because you joked through your lifetime. What a shame." Ever since that last day of war, I was The Joker. The Clock took pity on me and showed me her world, the world of the fairies, and magic. She later made Peter a joker when he turned 12...we both gazed upon the cardverse world for centuries as they passed by. We interfered when the Clock told us to, but during those years we had never seen The Deck try to awaken form his slumber....until now"