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By: Lady Bec of Imaginland

Summary: Alice meets some new friends as soon as she sets sail to China. But can she help her new friends get back to where they belonged and, can they help her save the world.

AN: Hi this is my first fan fiction. This is like a sequel to Alice in wonderland. Also it starts right immediately after the movie. Really when the movie faded out this story fades in.

P.S. I will update this story about once a month hopefully but if I get a lot of reviews I may write more.

Disclaimer: I don't own Alice in wonderland I wish I did though.

Chapter 1 Siblings

Fad in

As Alice looks at the butterfly flying away she suddenly remembers everything, and everyone. She suddenly feels very lost and shocked as she remembers the promise she made the hatter and now she was leaving to China !

"Do you go about naming all butterflies you meet?" Alice was asked by a young sailor standing behind her.

Alice jumped surprised not thinking anyone had herd her speak, just a minute ago no one had been around. "I know that butterfly; and it is rude to not call people by their names if you know them. Just like it is rude to ease drop on someone else's conversation." She said sharply then looking ashamed said, "Excuse me that was unnecessary my name is Alice Kingsley, what is yours."

As she said this she took in the appearance of the young man; he had black hair, she would guess just a few years older than her, and was very hansom. His features were just a little weathered; she assumed from working on a ship, he in the end had a friendly appearance to him. The most startling thing about him was his large green eyes that reminded her of a hatter that she had meet and missed very much.

With a smile he swept off his sailor hat and bowed low to her, "I, Miss Kingsley; am Andrew, I am sorry to have surprised you I found it interesting that you gave a butterfly such a noble name. I mean I would have assumed that you would give it a name like Shimmer or sparkle. What mean to say is I should have known better since you are supposedly the one who has planned this trip. That is I mean that you planned this trip I have no doubt in your trip planning abilities…"

Before he could continue with his ramblings Alice cut him off hoping to save them both some grief; "I understand what you are saying Andrew and might you by any chance know where the galley is I'm afraid that my nerves and I was unable to eat much this morning."

After Alice said this meant to be a kind distraction she realized how hungry she really was. Alice had in no way been too anxious to eat her breakfast however she was hungry again, and the thought of food was suddenly very welcome. So she was happy the thought of going down to the galley made him smile; however his smile was large so huge that it looked like it didn't fit his face.

"That is a great idea and while you eat you can meet my little sister! She works in the galley as an assistant chef!" Andrew said ecstatically his smile growing with every word and getting alarmingly big. With that he grabbed her hand and took off, almost dragging her to begin with off down the halls.

The ship was practically a maze, and with all the turns that they took and the doors they past; Alice knew that it would be amazing if she could would be able to make it back up to the top without help from someone. Alice couldn't help but feel amazement at the size of the ship as they practically flew down flights of stares, around corners and at one time backtracked around an entire level of the ship.

Finally after what seemed like halve an hour of running around Andrew stopped at a door on one of the lowest levels of the ship and with a victorious look through open the doors, revealing a large kitchen and a very flustered young woman running around. At the sound of the door slamming open she spun around and glared at Andrew with alarming intensity.

"What have you been doing Andrew you're the head chef, and lunch is just around the corner! What makes you think that you can just leave?" Screeched the young woman.

As she carried on Alice looked at her in surprise. She had black curly hair and the same large startlingly familiar eyes however they were changing colors as she yelled. She appeared to be about sixteen and was very angry. Also she wore a colorful top hat that sat at an angle on her head. However it was slipping off as she yelled at her brother angrily.

Finally once the fiery young women was done with her brother she noticed Alice, who after the first few minutes of shouting hat gone on the hunt for sustenance; with her head in the cupboards. At the sight of the stranger she instantly perked up and quickly raced over to Alice .

"HI! My name is Zoey, can I help you?" was her startlingly happy question, as she looked at Alice with happy big green eyes. Everything about her was different from how it had been just seconds before; and she looked like she couldn't hurt a fly if it was poking her eye with a hot branding poker.

"Hi, my name is Alice Kingsley, I was just wondering if I could have something to eat?" Alice asked watching as Zoey quickly went about finding her an appropriate snack.

Alice spent the rest of the morning watching the two siblings squabble good naturedly between each other as they cooked, and; was actually drafted into the helping at one point much the horror of Zoey. Alice also ate her lunch with them since it was the very beginning of the voyage so she did not have any work yet.

After a hardy lunch she went off in search of her room. With some chaotic directions from Andrew Alice was off wondering up and down the halls searching for a room that she was starting to think didn't even exist, when suddenly she heard the sound of someone running strait at her. When she turned around she saw Andrew sprinting at her just as they collided sending them both sailing several feet and landing hard on the floor.

"I found you!" Was Andrews's happy exclamation as he kindly helped her up. "I think I gave you the wrong directions so I came to find you! Which turned out to be quite the task, I think I told you to turn left when I should have said right so…

"Andrew!" Alice said loudly trying to stop the rambling.

"I'm fine, just follow me, I'll show you the way." was all the very flustered young man could say.

As it turned out the cabin was only one level up and a few doors from the kitchen. With a laugh it was agreed that either Zoey or Andrew would come and get her and they would spent the mornings together.

Alice 's cabin was small but nice. Her bunk was a small bed bolted to the wall. She noted also that she had a desk with a chair attached to it in one corner with a large wardrobe on the same wall next to it. There was even space for a body mirror if she choose to buy one on her trip.

Upon further inspection she found that all of her sensible traveling clothes had been placed neatly in her wardrobe. Also the top part of the wardrobe was actually a shelf, on which already a few books and what looked like a journal. Taking it down carefully she opened it a found a note written on the first page.

Dear Alice,

I know that leaving home is very hard, young Women are not the same way as young men. This fact makes you even more wonderful Alice; it also makes me happy to consider you almost a daughter.

I thought that this might be a hard time for you, and I understand if you don't confide in me. So I took the initiative and got you this book. My hope is that even if you don't make friends you can tell this book everything.

Lord Ascot

Alice smiled silently thanking the kind old man for the thought, and also giggled it was amazing how her entire life she had such a hard time making friends but, now she had so many both in this world and in Underland.

Supper was eaten with the caption and the businessmen onboard. This lead to a very boring meal compared to lunch which had been full of talking and laughing. Long boring conversations about the high prices of various, merchandise and how much it would be sold back in London was being discussed.

Now Alice knew plenty about business when she decided to embark on the trip she had spent hours everyday learning about it; and Lord Ascot was amazed with how quickly she learned. Of course only Lord Ascot really thought that she knew what she was talking about; thankfully the Caption was a good friend of his so respecting his friends decision he supported Alice. However whenever she said anything to counteract what one of the older men said she was instantly shushed, and told that she didn't know what she was talking about.

This she could deal with only so long and her patience was starting to wane.

"I understand what you are trying to say Lord Mastiff, however if the workers that make the dresses are live in such horrible conditions why would we want to support the stores. Let alone the fact that dresses made by people living in clean houses working in clean rooms only cost a little more!" Alice said to the man across from her.

" Alice you don't understand anything yet, if we buy five dresses for two dollars apiece and sell them for ten dollars back in London we make forty dollars. Where as if we buy five dresses for three dollars apiece and sell them for the same about we only make thirty-five dollars!" Was Lord Mastiffs' arrogant reply.

"Yes Lord Mastiff, however the dresses made in good working conditions are better quality, and if we sell dresses that are better quality women are more likely to buy more. So instead of only making eight dollars on one person we make sixteen or twenty-four." Alice reasoned.

The argument continued for almost the rest of the meal and it left everyone involved annoyed.. Finally Alice was able to collapse on her bunk and go to sleep, with dreams of her missing friends in Underland and a certain green eyed, red haired man whom she had left behind.

-Marmoreal with Mirana-

Mirana looked around the courtyard from the stone bench were she was sitting with a small smile gracing her lips. Underland had almost returned to its former glory in the two weeks that had passed since Alice had left. However it still lacked something, something that was there when her parents ruled that seemed to disappear on Horunvendush Day; but no-one else noticed anything missing so in might have been just her.

As she looked around, taking in her subjects how they leisurely strolled around the courtyard she suddenly realized what was missing. Everyone was too calm; there were no rowdy children running around, and by children she meant Hightopp children for everyone in Underland knew they were the maddest.

When Mirana was a child not too long ago, Tarrant's father was the royal hatter. Even though his mother was more than willing to keep them all at home, Mirana's father had insisted on having all six Hightopp children running around the castle; making the castle a place of noise and humor.

Even though Iracebeth had viewed her as a child and as such to young to play with; Tarrant who was almost an entire year older than Iracebeth jumped at the opportunity to "adopt" another sibling to play with.

Tarrant was the oldest and when Mirana was born he was 6 years old and had three younger siblings. Planning adventures and adding another person was no problem for him and since before she could remember Mirana had been apart of them all.

Tarrant had treated Mirana like a sister in every way, even teaching her to dance. Once when Mirana was ten they decided that they should throw a ball, they invited all the court children.

With the exception of Iracebeth everyone came, and it was a wonderfully exciting day. Tarrant, who was almost done with his training, was attempting to teach them all how to Futterwaken. As a result there was a great deal of medical assistance needed and Jacob, Tarrant's middle brother broke his arm, causing Mirana to faint.

It was a known fact that, once Tarrant came of age he would take his fathers place as a royal hatter, just like it was known that one of the two sisters would be queen.

As years past Tarrant had to become an apprentice and had less time for adventures but, the other Hightopps were already attached to Mirana so even though they all missed him greatly on their adventures she was still included. Sometimes the adventures included sneaking into the hatter rooms so watch him make hats or to sneak to the training grounds to see him learn swordsmanship.

Mirana had always just assumed that by the time that they were all grown up and she took the throne that a new generation of Hightopp children would be reeking havoc on Marmoreal.

It nearly happened, Tarrant's oldest sister Samantha got married when she was nineteen. By then Tarrant was the royal hatter and twenty-one. Then a year later, much to the horror of her older very overprotective brother, had just announced that she was going to have a baby… on Horunvendush day.

That was almost six and a half years ago. Now Tarrant wasn't even interested in any young women at non that were in Underland. Mirana loved her Champion she loved her just like a sister, but really! She was starting to get tired of waiting Tarrant had never been so gloomy for as long as she knew him! excluding family death naturally. Now Alice was just being selfish she needed to come back now so the two of them could start courting and sooner than latter give her some "nieces and nephews".

Underland knows that Mirana wasn't going to have children anytime soon. Her first and her last love had died on Horunvendush Day; along with his unborn niece or nephew, and all but one member of his family.

In truth Mirana couldn't help but blame herself. In hopes to help build up her relationship with her newly wed sister before their parents got sick she confided in her a crush. This had instantly made her sister interested naturally. What was even more unusual was the fact that Mirana princess of Underland had her crush on a Hightopp; Tarrant's youngest brother. It should have been suspected, and a crush had turned to liking quickly. Then liking had turned to love as the years went by. It didn't help at all that it most certainly wasn't a one-sided feeling.

Mirana is the only one that really knows why Iracebeth attack the Hightopp clan. The truth of the matter was she did it to break her sister. Sadly break her she did, only three knew about the crush; and now only the two sisters lived.

Thinking back on it now, it had been foolish for her not to expect her sister to fight her. Their parents had both died the same day, and had left everything to Mirana instead of Iracebeth. This wasn't surprising; Iracebeth's head and attitudes just two years later had taken a turn for the worst. So as a result, at age sixteen; Mirana of Marmoreal had taken the throne; it was only a few months before Horunvendush day.

AN: some ages have been changed for my own sanity. If you do the math you can figure out how old everyone is. Also Alice is now 20, eight years is normally an age gap that I wouldn't support but they work so well together that I am a total Alice Hatter fan.

Ok so the starting cast list and their ages are…

Mirana 22

Alice 20

Tarrant 28

Andrew 23

Zoey 16

Ok any questions and or comments are welcome. I know there are some stories that are kind like this maybe I don't know I don't read them. If your comments turn to flames or anything else I will block you.