A pack of cards.

"And what will you two do, I can't leave the duchess waiting. If you want to follow your brothers, I understand, but we are going to the duchess." He said ass diamonds sat behind him, balancing on the horse, "The extra horse is to go ad pick her up your see. I do not want me queen to hear that I kept her waiting."

Spade glares at him " I hope you ladies have fun with Mr. emotionless, I'm following Sei to the duchess.." He walks off.

Shuki looks at everyone and shakes his head. "to bad maybe Dia will still like you all.. If I was him I wouldn't but his weird.." He walks after spade and Sei.

Hearts looked at them shocked, "And what is their problem if their brother can't swim it is not our fault, how are we to know." She said as she watched the others leave.

"For once I do agree with you sis." Spades said as she patted her horse.

"Do you think that gut will be alright?" Clubs asked.

"He if fine, his time has not come, yet they will not reach Alisha the duchess in time for she is out and only I know of her current location. They will be waiting for a while." Damon said as he lead them down a small track.

All Diamonds could do was sit there and smile, inside she felt sick this was not a smiling matter. But, because she couldn't express any other emoting she felt any word she may say can come out wrong and seem cruel.

They increased their speed and within ten minutes the reached the broken bridge. Damon looked at diamonds, she could tell what he wanted, can she re build the bridge with her cards. She nodded her head slightly and started to shuffle her cards. Once done she threw them in the and created a new bridge.

Sei looks sets Dia down and all the brothers touches their tattoos and they touch Dia.
Dia opens his eyes and sits up. "thank you.." He stands up and holds his stomach "can we go home please..."
They all mod and smile.
Sei smirks "we don't need the duchess.." He picks up Dia and they head toward Touhous castle. "the 03 guy gets on my nervous next time I see him he better not say anything.."

Shuki sighs "I feel bad for kinda telling at the girls.."

Damon watched as cards flew into Diamonds hands before continuing.

" Ican tell that you don't like the others anymore, what will you di if Spades belong to their Queen?" Hearts asked Spades

Spades looked at her, "simple, I wont have anything to do with them I'll see what the queen and duchess place is like before picking where I will stay."

Spade sighs "I wish we could tell the girls we're sorry.. We were all kinda worried about Dia and got upset.."

Sei sighs "I don't much care.. I don't think they liked us from the beginning after they meet that 03 guy.."

Dia smiles and throws a card in the air and it appears before the girls with 'we're sorry' written on it.

Shuki smiles "well it would still be nice to have friends rather than have a bunch of enemies.."

While shuffling the card Diamonds noticed that there was the wrong amount, not one less, but one to many. She looked around everything seemed normal. She bit her lip unsure if to tell the others, they would probably say something on lines of, I'm sure you countered one twice or missed one in the past. She lost her trail of thought when they stopped at a nearby market place.

"The duchess is in there somewhere, i will go and get here, you four stay here." Damon said as he hopped of the horse.

Sei helps Dia to his room and lays him down "just rest I have to go talk to Touhou.."

Dia nods and smiles "alright.." He looks around after Sei leaves. He sends the girls another card with 'we hope you can forgive us..' He closes his eyes and begins to fall asleep.

"This cant be right," She dropped all her card on the fall, "I can't have missed two cards or counted double twice." She jumped of the horse and started to arrange all the cards again hoping to see where two two new ones belonged.

"Are you sure?"Hearts looked down.

Diamonds nodded as she continued to arrange the cards.

Shuki and spade followed Sei to see Touhou. Sei had to explain what happened to Dia.

Touhou hugs the three boys "I'm so glad you all are ok!!"

Hearing the foot steps she shoved the two extra cards in her pocket not giving them a second look, Miss duchess, I am Diamonds." She smiled as she bowed before the owner of Diamonds.

Alisha smiled, "Alisha is just fine, but if we are in a formal area then please call me duchess." She smiled as she tied her shopping on one of the horses.

Touhou walks to Dias room and smiles at him. She let's him sleep "I'm so glad I didn't lose my boys.. I wonder if I should tell duchess about this.." She didn't want any of her boys to leave her but if that's what they choose she couldn't stop them.

"I was getting jealous that Aqua got her first card, I'm glade you've chosen to come." She said playfully as she mounted her horse, "It would be nice to have another female in the house. anyway, when we return to my home I shall make us some tea so we can talk about what you want to know more. now may not be the best time." she smiled as she brushed some hair away from her face.

Touhou walks to her room and writes a letter. She sends it off to the duchess home.

After half an hour travelling they reached the duchess' home. Alisha told Damon to let the girls in and take them to the lobby while she takes the horses to the stables and makes sure they are all fine before joining them.

The girls follow Damon as he lead them to the room the duchess told him to take them too

OOC: just write the letter in a spoiler

After making sure all the horses were okay Alisha went up to her room to set out some new clothes and have a shower. after changing Leo walked into her room. "A letter has arrived for you." He placed it on her bed and sat beside it, "You do know you have guests too?" He asked

"Yes, but as the duchess I should great them as the Duchess, not as Alisha Ferro. I am sure Damon can keep them entertained until I come." He answered fixing up her hair and then taking the note. Skimming through she nodded, "Go to the Purple queen, tell her thank you for the message and I wish a speedy recovery. go into my herbal lab and take the bottle labeled A-31, it's used for healing and give it her while explaining her purpose." She said as she walked out her room.

The Cheshire cat nodded he first went to her lab, grabbed the bottle and then re apeared in the throne room of Queen Touhou

Touhou blinks and smiles to Leo. She bows "why hello Leo.. I guess the duchess got my letter.. What brings you here exactly?"

"she told me to tell you thank you for the message and she wishes for a speedy recovery." He said as he placed the bottle on the side table, "That is one of her Alchemy made herbal medicine. It helps speed up the heeling processes." He explained.

Touhou smiles and picks up the bottle "thank you very much.. This is very kind.. I'm sorry if this has caused her any trouble.."

"She was only expecting Damon to be honest, but since these new four girls have arrived she has found it interesting." He replied leaning against one of the walls. "So what do you know about this whole weird card business anyway?" He asked casually.

Touhou looks at him "I'm not sure but the boys seem to all be connected so if one dies they all die.. I believe it has to do with their tattoos.. I'm not sure if the girls are the same.. But I believe if we pair them up something amazing will happen and we will find out who owns each card.." She sits down "what do you know?"

""Well Heart's obviously goes to the Queen of Hearts.Clubs are tied into the sea, so Queen aqua. Going back in history the next high role after the queen and king of Hearts was Duchess so that is diamond. As for Spades, duchess is still going through her books with Queen aqua hoping to answer that question." He said, "Well, that's all the duchess has shared with me and my brother anyway, so believe that is all that they know so far."

Touhou nods "well I might get spades but I'm not sure.. We'll have to wait.. I really thought Charlotte would get the diamonds I mean she is the yellow queen.." She giggles and smiles "I'm surprised the duchess gets the diamonds.."

"It is an original role, that's why it is one of the oldest ones out there. chances are they stick to their original holder, however a few of them dies out and never got replaced, which made room for all of these new roles like yours or the Yellow Queen and Queen Aqua getting these more newer roles you could say. I mean there are two Wonderland stories, the rabbit hole and the glass, judging by rank stats the white queen in looking glass is the duchess of the rabbit hole story." He said as he memorized all the books he had to read with Alisha.