A/N: I do not own any of the Alice books, The no kuni no Alice game series and other Alice related works. Only this one. Enjoy yourselves! :)
Prologue
She walked down the empty street with no intention of turning back, honestly, she didn't know how to get back but as if she would admit that.
It wasn't her fault a strange blue eyed cat appeared as she waited for her mom an front of kindergarten school and being the adventurist she was, she chased after it as it ran off across the street.
And now here she was... lost.
She'd admit she was slightly scared, walking around an unfamiliar place, not knowing what might jump at her; but she kept a straight face, not wanting to admit defeat.
As time passed and she started to grow tired, she planned on resting for a bit before continuing, when something white caught her eye.
She starred at it wide-eyed and the round ball of white with its pink eyes and long ears looked back at her.
She hadn't seen anything so... cute.
What did mommy say it was? A ra? A rag-? A...
Then it started to hop away and she quickly followed it without a second thought. Come back, Mr. Rabbit!
Like she did with the cat, she chased it with all her might, not pondering the fact that she might get even more lost.
She was hot on the rabbits heels and was about to bend down to grab it when it suddenly hopped through a bush making her stop for a moment before she got on her knees and hands and crawled through the tangle of leaves and splintery wood.
As she neared the other side, her bag suddenly got caught on the thin branches of the bush and she had to abandon it there, not wanting to lose the rabbit.
She stood up straight and dusted her knees, glancing about to see where the rabbit had gone.
She almost jumped in glee when she saw it just sitting there, its pink eyes looking at her again with interest.
Not a moment sooner, she was running again, towards the bundle of white fur as said bundle just sat there, as if it was waiting for her.
She quickened her pace and stretched a hand out to hold it, when the world suddenly came swirling around her as she heard the leaves rustling and then everything went dark.
She kept still for a moment, confused and shaking like a leaf from fear and shock. What's going on?
Her eyes slowly opened and she saw leaves at the side of her face and a wall of earth was surrounding her. She carefully sat up and noticed she was lying on a pile of fallen leaves from above, some stuck to her blonde hair but she didn't care at the moment.
She looked up and saw that she had fallen through a hole and peaked up to see that she had indeed fallen for she was still inside the forest she came to follow the rabbit into
The rabbit?
She looked around but to her dismay, the rabbit had already gone away leaving her there in the hole.
After thinking for a moment, she decided to hoist herself up and out of that hole and begin her search for the rabbit. But after trying for a couple of times and jumping up and down repeatedly, she was unable to. The hole was too deep to climb out from.
She tried again only to fall back on her butt on the soft leaves.
"Is anybody there? Hello?" she called out, hoping someone had managed to pass by and hear her, but after a while of waiting, no one had come for her.
The leaves rustled against the soft caress of the wind, and the birds merrily chirped above without a care in the world. Meanwhile, a little girl with slightly watery baby blue eyes and a tousle of wavy blonde hair covered with leaves, sat rigidly inside a hole she had fallen into, the only noise she made was her silent sobs of missing her mother and hoping she would soon be found
I'm sorry I let Dinah out of the house
I'm sorry I climbed the top of the cabinets to get Ada down from the shelf
I wanna go home
I wanna see my mother again
I-
"Are you quite alright?"
The new voice surprised her and she quickly looked up and saw pink eyes looking at her.
She immediately wiped up her blurry eyes thinking to herself that the rabbit just spoke to her. But when she looked up again it was actually a boy with pretty pink eyes.
She had thought she was dreaming for she knew rabbits could not turn into boys and yet this person in front of her looked so similar to the rabbit with his pink eyes and snow white hair.
"Excuse me, miss?" he asked snapping her out of her thoughts as he merely looked at her with curious eyes
"Y-Yes?" she stuttered out, surprised. Could they speak too?
"Do you need any assistance climbing out of this hole?" he asked further gesturing to her below
"Assistance?" she was so distracted by the boy being once a rabbit that she had forgotten she had fallen down a hole. "O-Oh! Yes! Can you please give me a hand?" she requested standing to her feet, looking at him expectantly
The boy cautiously knelt down on the edge of the hole and reached his hand in which the girl grabbed hold of as he slowly pulled her up.
Once out she dusted her clothes and picked out the leaves and dirt in her hair
"Thank you for helping me" she gleamed trying to get out a stubborn twig in her hair
He reached in and carefully took it out muttering an 'Of course'
After she was once again prim and proper except for the smug on her skirt, she asked a question, "What's you name, mister?"
"Robert" he said shortly, nochalantly
That sounds like Rabbit!, she though whimsically
"And my name's Alice" she said smiling brightly
"Alice?" it was a question, surprise coloring his features a bit
She looked at him oddly, "Yes, is there something wrong with it?" she asked, wondering. Her friends at kindergarten didn't think her name was strange
He shook his head, his stoic expression back on, "No"
He spoke again after a moment
"Alice"
"Yes?"
"Would you like to be my friend?"
And that was the beginning of it...
See You Again Folks! :3