The citizens of Wonderland were scattering about the place as a warning plagued their ears; one that ended many innocent lives just in one day. The Queen of Hearts went from her light hearted card theme outfit to a beautiful lush white lace around red silk modeled Lolita outfit.
She stood on the terrace with a heart shaped lollypop between her crimsoned lips. In and out of her mouth often as if she was still in years of youth in step; by her side sat a black haired young man dressed in a black captains suits laced in gold ornaments randomly placed through out the outfit.
The cards stacked in line with new weapons never heard of by members of the community. Mr. Caterpillar scurried to help many of the creatures and other beings that came through the area to hide them away, but he understood minimal protection he could give and they took it gratefully.
"Where is Alice dear Caterpillar?" A butterfly asked. Mr. Caterpillar looked puzzled then replied with a shake back and forth to say no.
"I'm sure someone is looking out for well being. The Cheshire Cat is surely on her tail…" Mr. Caterpillar explained in fear of her life.
"She is strange in the midst of our ways and still seeks to be touched by the innocence of something yet to be seen by eyes of her kind…" The butterfly reassured him.
"Innocence is nothing now that the queen has seen the land of human child..." Mr. Caterpillar shouted.
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"Alice hurry please before goobies come!" The Cheshire Cat yelled. Alice ran as fast as her feet could carry her to reach the arms of the humanized cat boy.
The Goobies surrounded Alice. Cheshire cat transformed into the purple coated cat to spring forth to try to nab her before something more terrible could happen. "Cheshire!" Young Alice screamed terrified to be pulled into an eternal black quagmire of despair that had extremely white eyes that pierced the soul when stared at directly.
"Grab my paw! Make haste as we have much to do after such faults of the queen that need to be dealt! You need to survive and seek vengeance if not that then at last fight the castles countess to free her peoples from further sorrows along the way!" The Cheshire Cat shouted in pain.
The Goobies wouldn't let her body be token from what the queen thought she deserved. "Sorrow will happen as what happens in my realm, but beauty has been bled in this for the sake that she knows that fear controls the population and will wither the flowers and melt the dreams of the many who have now built a life that many had before thy. I will survive for the sake others that lay themselves on the dreams of others!" Alice responded weakly. Her body couldn't reach The Cheshire Cats entirely to be pulled out.
She was eventually was sucked in, to drop into the cage made just for her. Cheshire Cat felt compelled to jump into the demnous pit to protect Alice.
When he fell through the weird blob creature he landed hard on the ground to see the queens grin.
"Well well little Alice…I never imagined that you could be captured so easily as to say so many love the presence that you hold…Cheshire Cat, I'm so surprised that you of all people would help this girl!" The Queen boasted.
"To what mind wouldn't you think me in such a way? I never would surrender anyone to the likes of you!" The Cheshire Cat argued.
"Keep silent, if you want to keep your tongue you fur ball!" the Queen yelled back.
"Fur ball…I have half the mind to scratch your eyes out of your head!" The Cheshire Cat shouted.
"Insolent beast, I will have skinned for those hurtful words!" The Queen said offended as if she had broken a nail against a hard surface.
"Excuse me, but not to interrupt you and the Cheshire Cats discussion…I want to know your reasoning behind this destruction!" Alice demand to know.
"You humans are such fragile and stupid creatures! I see the power that was handed to me and turned into something that could benefit myself and Wonderland as well!" The Queen admitted to the two.
"Benefit? You feel Wonderland could benefit from weapons and things powerful enough harm millions in one fowl swoop?" Alice questioned.
"Yes Alice and all because you decided to follow the white rabbit!" The Queen snickered.
Alice became shocked by those words; so much so that the face of guilt was reflected quickly in her eyes. Cheshire Cat noticed the sudden change in the girl's attitude. He shook her gingerly to get her loosen up.
"It's not your fault! Something was bound to happen like this neither sooner nor later either which could have gave evil deeds over such goodness it could replace!" The Cheshire Cat tried to convince her to cheer up.
Alice pushed Cheshire Cat away from her. The shame washed over her mind. "This is mine fault in which moping can't solve this illness that hast fallen on the simple kingdom!" Alice complained in her current sorrow.
"To discover such a burden and use it properly is the issue dear dear Alice and dumbed feline!" The Queen felt she might add. "In any matter I have saved the human world and this one as well for my mind is of the brilliant sort in which keep both aligned with respect on my terms!"
Her black haired assistant ran into the room in a hurry in a panic. "Mrs.…some things have stirred beyond the kingdom! Rebels are going against orders!" He announced.
The Queen of hearts knew something like this would happen. "I'll be there!" She answered back bluntly.
Alice glared at the women who ruined what she thought could be beautiful forever, but now became filthy with the stench and rot of death. "The human world was once like this Wonderland…though soon devoured by jealously, greed, and death!" Alice told the queen before she left off.
Washed the words of noble blood
What has stood and haven't stayed
The endless days whilst wander again
Though bravery is sought not stopped
The ones must see the days through
Tears, blood stained hands resurrect the once humbled lost
Years over days will win this tried battle, see the wild ones
For they know the truth and so soon must all or die trying
We ask not for a savoir, but for a life for all lives…………
CONTINUE PLEASE, continue please!
The sad tune draped the hollow halls many that day till the song had become loud for the two to hear when the Cheshire Cat decided to look at the view from the window at such the distance they were.
There the dear friend the Gryphon was there to greet them. Cheshire Cat shook Alice out of sleep to see the Gryphon there in all his glory. "I have come to help as word had spread to the winds on high! I see no reason to fear the Queen and her guardsmen as no mere man could contain me!" The Gryphon proudly spoke.
"Gryphon can you break what shackles these bars?" Alice questioned. The Gryphon only laughed to swipe off the lock in fowl swoop of his large paw. Cheshire cat and Alice hopped on the back of the legendary beast to fly off to safety or as safe as safe can be.
"Your grand mum tried her best though the queen somehow bested her at everything she threw to horn billed hag!" Grandfather recited from memory. Nicolas rustled about to hear the horror tale of the beloved child's tale of fantasy.
"Oh please grandfather! Grand mum was named Alice, but the chances of the story being true and grand mum being that Alice are so slim…" Aria replied negatively to his number one fable of the day.
"Stop being a stick in the mud already Aria! Who is to say that such a world isn't real?" Nicolas argued back.
"You're six Nick…I'm going to bed…" Aria responded to Nicolas's childness.
"Someday you'll believe in the worlds other side someday!" Grandfather thought he might add. Aria waved her arm up and down to signal enough to him. He frowned to her lack of belief.
Aria walked up the steps and took a left where her room stood. She washed her face and hands in the water basin on the dresser then shut the door behind her quietly.
She plopped down on the bed to feel a small rectangle box under her. Aria only sighed because she thought she had left out her special pendant sealed in a box when she was going to put it away when she realized that the box was much heavier than she thought before.
Aria rattled the box around in curiosity. She opened it up to pull out what she thought was a chef's knife when she lifted up the ribbon wrapped around the knife that read. "Vorpal blade: use with caution"
She swung it in the air delicately as to not knock down any valuables. "Someone has sent me a cruel joke as it seems…maybe Grandfather!" Aria questioned. "He really wants me to believe his Alice in Wonderland dribble does he?"
"Well do you believe?" A voice chimed. Aria looked about the room to see nothing.
"I'm imagining things as grandfather and Nicolas does!" Aria said not convinced.
"We see what one does not all the time there for that is the truth!" the voice once again rang. Aria again looked around the room in confusion to the words being spoken.
"A ghost maybe? Then again aren't those something for the crazy and those of loss?" Aria questioned. "I dare not want to seek help from a stranger for the solution of my problem, so I'll solve it on my own accord…"
"What is there to solve? I am no ghost nor are you delusional…dear sweet Alice why thine at midst of confusion?" the voice again asked
"Be gone as your presence is not needed!" Aria said trembly in fear.
"I am thine granddaughter of an Alice, but not of the book Alice!" Aria argued.
"You look the double of Alice if any, but mine eyes see what of the past as in Wonderland one does not age!" The voice responded.
"You tell lies as such the tale exists in this realm as tale of disbelief and aww! The maker of such of the tale was a user of a drug that stimulated his psyche to reach a new height of seeing…" Aria shouted
"Yes new heights that can be achieved with meditation and many other methods…many have been to Wonderland and always come back with the same tales to tell just not recorded as one describes!" The voice argued back.
"Show yourself!" Aria asked. A grin appeared out of nowhere then gradually a whole body came through.
"As you wish dear sweet Alice…or…or…of the granddaughter of Alice as one presumes!" The cat announced.
"The...the...Cheshire Cat! You be no illusion to mine eye!" Aria shouted as she back into the cabinet behind her that made a rather large thump. Nicolas knocked on Aria's door.
"Aria Grandfather is going to tell one of the tales you like! Please come down!" Nicolas pleaded.
"No…that's quiet alright Nick as to say I'm really tired…see you in the morn!" Aria said to get Nicolas to go away. She heard him leave down the steps; Aria sighed. "I'm not your Alice, so leave!"
"Oh, but you must come! Wonderland is in great need of help still and could use extra hands in this ordeal!" The Cheshire Cat reassured her.
"I'm no Alice!" Arai yelled.
"But you are her daughter as you say!" The Cheshire Cat said convinced. He quickly transformed from fur to skin in a human form though his ears still stood on the top of head and the tail waved about below him. "Come over to the mirror please dear one."
Aria looked at the mirror closely to only to see the reflections of them both. They both stared at the mirror for a hard fifteen minutes before the Cheshire Cat grinned his widest then pushed her through knocking over everything on her cabinet.
The Cheshire Cat shortly jumped in; his tail wagged happily around. He picked up the blade to carry it at his side. "The realms are broken you see, so we need to walk in between borders. The queen did this so she shall stop many from trespassing!" the Cheshire Cat explained.
A green tint thick on the white gray walls, glass float about the place while many objects lay broken on the ground, the White Rabbit waited at the end of the long hall a head, Aria and Cheshire Cat eventually made it through the long long halls where the White Rabbit tapped his large furry feet in boredom.
"Finally you are here! No time to dilly dolly now!" White Rabbit explained. The Cheshire Cat stopped the White Rabbit a second after his words ceased.
They moved away from Aria's presence. "This is not Alice as she does not live the place past thought! This is her Granddaughter and to say she has no mind as good as the one she looks!" The Cheshire Cat admitted.
"The devil gave her the body, but not the spirit…such a shame as the youth!" The White Rabbit said disappointed.
"Yes…youth being the only thing on her side as I had to trick our way through the mirror…" The Cheshire Cat snickered.
"Rudeness as your name portrays! You should have given her the situation at hand to see it our way…" White Rabbit responded unhappy.
"I am no Alice as she shouted away to hear no word of my tale, so let her feel what we are feeling! Torment and sorrow will encase her heart while she endures to help Wonderland!" The Cheshire Cat said convinced.
The White Rabbit signaled for Aria to come over their little group that seemed so private a second ago. "As far as I'm concerned I have been told that you are not Alice…and that you see no intention of really wanting your hands dirtied to help our cause…" The White Rabbit asked.
Aria fiddled her fingers nervously. "I was mercilessly shoved in the mirror and asked not to take part in your journey to achieve such a goal…" Aria admitted.
"Now wait rabbit!" Cheshire Cat shouted.
"Pipe down wills you! Now child…if you want to leave then walk right back down that hall and never look back while doing so, but if you see proper and fit to take the challenge to help our effort then walk forward!" White Rabbit explained.
"Are you trying to damn us? What the hell…do you think we can afford kindness in these times?" The Cheshire Cat demanded to know.
"She was not who we were expecting…you became desperate then attempted to force her against her will!" The White Rabbit made clear to The Cheshire Cat.
"We act and act and act on what we feel is right, but not all the time we have a choice and Wonderland has seen too many die never to not return! Even if we cannot reach Alice then second best is better than none! The Queen will become maddened to know we have reached her again even if she is not the real thing!" The Cheshire Cat said sure of himself.
"I thought you said that people of Wonderland cannot age, how can they die?" Aria asked.
"Dying is another thing and all can do just that…actually…lie a little as we do age, but slowly." The Cheshire Cat laughed at himself.
"So then you do age!" Aria shouted to show she disapproved his now questionable words.
"Excuse me, but I need to know your answer now please!" The White Rabbit replied.