The Battle of Wonderland:
Chapter 1
"Well? What do you have to say for yourself regarding your actions?" huffed the Queen of Hearts, glowering down from her throne and pointing an accusing finger down towards the defendant's stand.
The couch propped up against the stand offered up no response.
Alice rolled her eyes, blowing back a strand of blonde hair as she reclined even further back in her tree branch. Honestly, these trials just kept getting more and more ridiculous. And they had been especially strange as of late; the queen seemed to have forgotten entirely about the incompetence of her subjects, and had since shifted her focus to inanimate objects. The couch in question was the latest in a series of one-sided courtroom battles the Queen had staged against various items she encountered about the palace grounds. She had even tried her own croquet mallet the other day, although Alice hadn't made up her mind yet whether or not that one really counted as an inanimate object.
Not really sure why I even bother coming to watch these fiascos… Alice thought to herself as the proceedings went on below. Oh well…at any rate it's better than listening to those two prattling on about tea and unbirthdays, or trying to decipher everything that strange cat has to say…
"Now then," the queen was saying. "You have been found guilty of the crime of standing in her majesty's way as she walked to her luncheon."
The couch made no attempt at a rebuttal.
"The penalty…OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!" screamed the queen, surprising absolutely nobody. Alice had to fight to keep her laughter to herself as a group of card soldiers dragged the 'accused' off to be 'executed', while several others ran in hectic and confused circles around the piece of furniture, attempting to figure out exactly where it's head was.
The queen dismissed the court with an irritated 'shoo' motion accompanied by a rude remark, and promptly waddled off to hunt down more unfortunate pieces of furniture to execute. Seeing that the excitement was over, Alice slowly and carefully made her way down from her perch, ducking behind some nearby shrubbery to conceal herself from the guards. After all, I don't want to get myself caught a second time. That was an experience she didn't care to repeat. The last time she stood trial in wonderland she had wound up being held prisoner by that horrible witch Maleficent and those dreadful heartless.
But then…she thought. It turned into a good thing eventually. She smiled at the memory of her rescuer. Watching him battle the heartless was the most excitement she had ever experienced, and even though she barely even knew him, she just couldn't get over the feeling that she was destined to see Sora again. At least she certainly hoped so. Excitement tended to follow Sora around, and although it was hardly proper for a young girl to want such things, Alice was secretly longing to see another battle. She knew it was strange and improper, but she couldn't help herself; it was all just so…so exhilarating!
Alice turned a corner and started to wander absent-mindedly through the Lotus Forest, humming a random tune to herself and leaning up to inspect the flowers as her thoughts wandered even further away.
"Maybe…" she spoke to the flower. "Maybe I'll see him again."
And as she turned to continue on her way, she could have sworn she heard the flower whisper maybe in reply. She turned to look at it again, but the deep crimson bulb was silent. Maybe it was just her imagination, but Alice rather doubted it.
This was wonderland, after all.
She shrugged her shoulders, losing interest, and continued to wander about through the winding paths of the forest. She gradually began to hum another light-hearted tune to herself and twirled about in a circle, waltzing with an invisible partner, as she made her way deeper into the forests of Wonderland.
A pair of yellow eyes watched her leave, following the dancing girl intently, and hungrily taking note of her every move.