Okay first story ever to put up on any fan fic website! Please enjoy reading my story, and when you're done please send in a review.
Oh yeah the disclaimer. I do not own Alice in wonderland in any way at all, not the books, the movies, T.V. shows or the games . . . sadly :(
On a nice spring day, close to noon, a petite girl of 17 walks down a dirt path, dappled by the sunlight through the leaves. The girl is named Maeve, and today her main goal is to get away from her family for a bit, just to have a little time by herself at her favorite spot by the river.
Maeve smiles feeling the nice cool breeze against her skin, her short straight raven hair, lightly scratching her cheek. She was wearing homemade black sundress that had a white band on top and bottom of the dress with white spaghetti straps, showing off her peachy skin, and on her small feet she wore her black ballet shoes.
She looks around the forest path with her dark blue eyes, happy that the rain that had been constant for the past week had givin up for this day.
She adjusted the basket she had in the crook of her elbow, and noticed the corner of the light blue checkered sheet hanging out. She didn't mind, she would be taking it out soon enough anyway.
As she walks down the path she hears a rustling in the bushes. Used to the sound she pays no mind to it and keeps walking.
"Psst!""Pssssssst!"
Maeve stops and stares at the bush, and as she shrugs it off thinking it was her mind playing tricks on her, a white rabbit, with a monocle in one eye, pops its head out of the bush, looks left then right then stares at Maeve with a look of urgency.
"You're Maeve, correct?" asked the rabbit
Maeve is surprised, not only that the rabbit spoke to her but knew her name as well.
"Umm, yes. Maeve is my name."Maeve replied
"Good! Come, follow me!"
The rabbit goes back into the bush, leaveing Maeve to stare at the bush, wondering if she had eaten something bad, and it was affecting her thinking.
The rabbit's head pops back out of the bush with a tinge of anger in his red eyes.
"Well! What are you waiting for! An invitation from the Queens! Come on!" cried the rabbit
This time after the rabbit turned, Maeve went through the bush ready to follow him. The rabbit was waiting for her when she got through, but before she could stop he bolted away, bounding through the trees.
Maeve, using her years of Track to good use, is barely keeping up. Only just able to keep the rabbits red plaid vest in sight before it dissapers behind another tree.
Then finally Maeve breaks through the forest line and sees the rabbit dash up and over a hill. She hurridly follows him, but stops at the top, surprised to see a large beautiful lake, that almost seemed like liquid gold with the way it was reflecting the noon-day sun.
The Rabbit was staring at Maeve, his foot beating on the ground in impatience, near a large puddle that looked to be run-off from the golden lake. But as she got closer she noticed the puddle was placed higher than the lake, and beacuse of a few pebbles she could tell the flow of the water was going away from the puddle.
"Was the lake made from the puddle?" wondered Maeve
"Come on!" yelled the rabbit
The rabbit lept into the air and into the puddle, surprising Maeve. From where she was standing the puddle looked extremely shallow, but it swallowed the rabbit up like a bottomless pit.
Taking a deep breath and holding the picnic bag against her chest she jumped into the puddle, leaving no trace that she ever entered it.
Maeve expected to feel herself slowdown, as she usually did whenever she entered water. But there was no water around her just space, so instead of slowing down, she plummeted down a hole. The air she held in her lungs escaped in a scream.
"Why are you screaming?" she heard
She opened her paniced filled eyes and looked at the rabbit, who she had followed into the puddle, falling right beside her even though he jumped in before her.
"YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO ASK THAT!" she yelled at the rabbit
"No need to yell." he stated calmly
"I'LL YELL ALL I WANT! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
The rabbit sighed and shook his head. He then looked around at the walls seeing the openings that he was used to seeing everyday, looking for the girl that was now screaming her head off. He looked down and saw the opening he needed to get them through.
He grabbed onto one of her arms and pulled the both of them over, Maeve looked at where he was pulling them and saw an entrance with wood around it painted with blue polka-dotts on a pink surface.
As they sped past that entrance the rabbit pulled out an umbrella the same print as his coat, got closer to the wall and opened it. Almost emmediatly they stopped falling. Maeve looked around in amazement wondering, How?
That was when she felt a warm gust of air pushing her skirt up. She put her arm against her waist stopping her dress from going higher than that. She wasn't really worried that someone might see her underwear, mainly because she was wearing a pair of tight white shorts that covered her panties.
They floated back up to the polka-dotted entrance and managed to lightly land inside of it.
As soon as the rabbit let go of her arm she fell to the floor and grabbed her chest, her heart beating so fast she thought it would pop out.
"Come, come! We need to hurry!" cried the rabbit
Breathing extremely heavily, she looked at the rabbit in exasperation.
"Listen . . . I realize . . . we have to . . . get somewhere in a . . . hurry." Maeve gasped "But . . . I just need to . . . make sure . . . my heart dosn't . . . pop."
To the rabbit a few long, and arduous, minutes passed, and as soon as Maeve stood up and took a deep breath, he once again grabbed her arm and pulled her through the tunnel.
They both ran and hopped, at their full speed, side by side. The rabbit was surprised he felt no pull from her.
"You're much quicker than most people I know." said the rabbit
"Thankyou. Years of being on the Track team at my old school." said Maeve
"Track?" questioned the Rabbit
"Yeah. It's when you run around in a race, either alone or as a team." explained Maeve
"Ah."
They kept going throught the tunnel and then came out to a large glowing red cavern.
They did not stop running so Maeve just kept looking around. The cavern was extremely large, and looking up and down from the wooden platform they were on, it seemed to go on nonstop in either direction. The walls were completely covered in the red gems that were giving off and eerie red glow making everything seem as if it was bathed in blood.
They turn left onto one of the hundreds of wooden walk-ways, that Maeve could see, that went over the bottomless chasm, and ,as most people are, being a bit afraid of heights, she made sure to try and stay in the middle of the walkways.
As they ran on these walkways that went every which way, Maeve noticed these humanoid creatures that carried the glowing red gems in baskets they had strapped to their back. The humanoid creatures varied in height and width. They were tall and thin, short and round, tall and round and short and thin. They had this brown leathery looking skin all over them and, instead of fingers all Maeve could see was a mitt, the same leathery brown, covering their hands and tied to their wrists. There was also something else about these creatures - they had no face.
"Umm, why do they have no face?" - asked Maeve
"The Queens took their faces off. These creature you see are the Dorlips. They used to live underground living out their lives, as peaceful as they could make it. But when the Queens miners found the glowing gems, they also found the Dorlips. The Queens forced the Dorlips to mine the gems for them. After a while the Dorlips revolted against them. The Queens didn't like that, oh no, they didn't like it at all. So to make them obedient they tore off their faces, taking away their ability to perseve if anything is good or bad."
As Maeve was wondering if she could do anything for them, the rabbit stopped. Maeve looked where they stopped and saw a large mechanical belt going up and down, along with large metal buckets containing the gems. Bringing them up to a place far, far above their heads.
"We must wait for an empty one, or else we shall be sqewered upon the gems" said the rabbit "Ah! Here comes one."
Maeve tentatively looked over the side of the walkway, and confirmed to herself that there was indeed a metal bucket comeing up that was empty, except for a few small gems at the bottom.
"We're going to jump soon, so get ready." said the rabbit
Maeve nodded. Feeling a bit afraid she started to chew on her fingernails. Seeing this the rabbit held out his paw.
"Would you like to hold my paw?" he asked
Maeve looked at the rabbit's paw.
"Really?" she asked
"Yes" he nodded
She put her hand around his paw, noting how soft and warm it was.
"Thankyou." she said feeling relieved
Most of Maeve's life her family would laugh at her if she ever showed even an iota of fear. But the rabbit didn't laugh at her at all, he actually helped her to feel better, even a little braver.
"Thankyou." she said
"You're welcome" he said bowing his head
He looked over the ledge "Here it comes. We'll jump in, 3 . . . 2 . . . 1!"
They both jumped and succesfully made it into the basket, they basket rocked as it's living cargo settled in for the ride.
"It'll be a while until we reach the surface, so catch your breath, Miss Maeve. We still have obastacles to overcome." said the rabbit looking up
"Okay." she said sitting down
Miss Maeve? - She thought - First time anyone's called me that.
Maeve looked down at the bottom of the bucket and saw the few small gems that were put into the bucket. She decided to pick one up and take a closer look.
The gem she picked up looked about half a foot long, but it was so thick she could could only wrap her hand around half of it. She could see her hand through the gem, and when she put the gem into her other hand she noticed a spark arc between her finger and the gem.
Static electricity?
Maeve quickly rummaged through her picnic basket and pulled out her large black kerchief. She wrapped it around the gem and placed it back into her basket, without the rabbit seeing.
"Oh, ummm, what is your name?" asked Maeve
"What?" he asked looking at her
"What's your name?"
"My name is Zayek."
"Zayek. What a cool sounding name." said Maeve with a smile
Zayek's eyes went wide and he looked away "Th-thankyou." he whispered
Maeve cocked her head, wondered if she said something wrong when he turned his head, and before she could ask if something was wrong she noticed light above them.
"I think we're getting to the surface." said Maeve
Zayek looked at her then looked up, seeing the light up ahead.
"You're right. Get ready we're going to have to run a bit more."
"'Kay."
Maeve got up and took hold of Zayek's outstrecthed paw.
"The bucket will shift quickly, so we will have to run. I promise I will get you to our destination quickly and keep you safe from any harm."
Maeve smiled and nodded her head, wondering what kind of harm he was talking about. The bucket escaped from being underground and as it went over the belt, the living occupants were shaken stumbling about trying to keep their balance. Then it suddenly stopped and started to turn. Maeve and Zayek ran to stay upright, and when the bucket stopped moving Zayek and Maeve ran out of the bucket onto a conveyer belt, that ahead of them was completely covered in the red gems from below.
Before Maeve could look around her, Zayek pulled her off of the conveyer belt and once again they were off.
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