Lily was not impressed. The day has started off perfectly normal- She had gone to bed at 4:30am after doing to much of whatever crap she had been doing and then gotten up at 6:00 to do more. Then she was depressed and wandered aimlessly.
Until she got the bright idea that it might be interesting to lock herself in the broom cupboard.
Which is were she now found herself. "How te crap to I get into these stupid situations...?" She muttered.
She felt around the walls looking for a light switch. After hitting herself with a broom and walking into several walls, she found a switch which was connected to a rather dim light.
In the gloom, she could make out some cleaning supplies and a few brooms but nothing which could help her get out. Apart from the second door. Wait.
Second door?
The brunette got down on her hands and knees and inspected the door. It was made of oak and had a brass handle and was about half a foot high. She twisted the handle but let go as she heard a shriek of pain.
"OHMAHGOD SORRY WHO DID I KILL?!" She squealed
Crystal woke up groggily, immediately realizing that her 12:00 pm decision last night to sleep on her sofa on an angle was not the greatest idea in the world. You couldn't blame her though, she had to deal with her rather evil niece and nephews, who she believed were not related to her, and liked to think her sister just took home the wrong children. "They should be called the devil tribe" she muttered, as she rather ungracefully slid down her couch in attempt to get her body moving. With most of her body on the floor and only her head remaining on the couch, she groaned as she got up, feeling all of her bones clicking to life.
She checked the time. "7:30? Lordy lou..." she grumbled as she swayed and stumbled to her room. When she finally got into said room, she felt something was off. More like something was...edited. Expanded, if you will. She looked around, trying to figure out why she felt like the room was suddenly too big. As she was observing her room, she stumbled on one of the boxes on the ground, effectively slamming her into her wardrobe doors. But before she could curse the entire human race, she realized that it sounded rather hollow, as if there was more space in her wardrobe.
She stared at it quizzically, wondering if her wardrobe had gone about the TARDIS route and made itself bigger on the inside. She chuckled to herself, before sliding the door open. She peered inside, and nothing seemed out of the normal, until she spotted a door. She couldn't see it clearly, so climbing in (which was a hassle as she was blinded by cloth), and crawling towards it, she got a better look. It was rather small, only seemed about half a foot, and was made of oak with a large brass handle.
But just as her hand touched the handle, it was turned sharply, sending her hand to a very unnatural position. She shrieked from the sudden pain, as a familiar voice from the other side was panicking and going on about if she killed someone...
Lily stumbled backward and tripped on a mop bucket, spilling the contents everywhere, causing her to slip and fall backwards again. She slammed into door and it crashed open leaving her a dazed heap on the floor screaming every curse word known to mankind.
But hey, at least she was out of the broom cupboard.
Still muttering profanities, she got up and stumbled over to the small door to inspect it again. She put her eye to the keyhole and peered through. A blue-gray eye looked back at her and this time it was her turn to shriek.
She fell backward again this landing with the mop bucket on her head, falling into a ninja stance with a defensive lettuce at the ready. She heard a key turn in the lock on the other side and her eyes widened as the door opened and the offender crawled through the gap and into the cupboard.
After realigning her hand into its natural and pain-free position, Crystal listened in amusement as she heard someone stumble about all over the place on the other side of the door. When all the commotion died down, she decided to look into the keyhole and see if she could identify the other room or place on the other side of the door. When she did however, a rather unimpressed green eye stared back at her, and her eye at it. The other person once again started flailing about, and Crystal had to try really hard not to burst out laughing.
She looked around her wardrobe, trying to figure out if there way to enter the other room. As she glanced over everything in her wardrobe, she noticed something glinting behind her clothes. She quickly pushed them back to reveal a small golden key with a red ribbon tied around the bottom.
Quickly taking the key, she crouched down to the door's level and inserted it, hopefully unlocking the door. Her wish came true as the door swung open to the other side, where she noticed a silhouette in a rather defensive pose. Shrugging to herself, she hurriedly crawled through the gap and into the rather cramped space on the other side.
Lily charged at the intruder screaming a fierce battle cry ("bshasjqjwhwhwjwkshfhdjeeburgbssj!"). She attempted to beat them over the head but, forgetting that there was still a puddle on the ground, she tripped over and slammed into the other person, causing them to both fall over, Lily landing on top of the other person who landed on their back. Now that she was up close to the intruder, she noticed that they were somewhat familiar...
Very familiar...
Suspiciously familiar...
Suspiciously so.
"CRYYYYYYSTAAAAAAAL!" Moonleaf hugged her friend and began to sob, muttering some ridiculous nonsense.
"IT WAS REALLY SCARY, THE BROOM CUPBOARD TRIED TO EAT ME AND THE MOP BUCKET HAS IT IN FOR ME AND AND I THINK I KILLED SOMEONE AND- *SOB CHOKE SOB*"
Crystal raised an eyebrow, facepalmed and shouted, "CALM THYSELF CHILD"
Lily looked confused, blinked and asked, "Behhhgershnuflingerburg?"
Crystal nodded wisely and agreed. "Yes. Very much so."
The two detangled themselves and stood up (Crystal banging her head on the ceiling and Lily chuckling at her pain). "So how did you even get here?" Asked Lily
Crystal shrugged and pointed to the door, which had closed and locked itself again. "MAGIC DOOR!" Lily screeched
Crystal facepalmed again. "I should probably go back home, Mom and Gma might be worrying,"
"Can you bring me a chocolate milk first?"
Crystal looked at her witheringly and crouched down to unlock the door again. She opened it and looked through. "LE GASP!"
"What?" Lily shoved her out of the way and peered through. The sight before them was...
"SINCE WHEN DID YOUR HOUSE HAVE A FOUNTAIN AND GARDEN AND BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES AND STUFF?!"
"Perhaps Gma decided it required redecorating?"
"Let's go and find out eh? But I still want the chocolate milk..."
The two crawled through the small passage with difficulty, however they failed to notice the hole in the floor just in front of the exit.
"HAJAIAKAAJHAHA WHAT THE SPACE WAFFLEEEEEEEESSSSSS!?" Screamed Crystal as she tumbled down the hole, closely followed by Lily, who was screaming profanities again.
"WHY DO THESE THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN YOU'RE AROUND?!" Screeched Crystal
"BECAUSE-"
Before Lily could come up with some self-preserving statement about why dangerous things happened when she was around, they both landed on the ground with a very solid thud, with Lily landing on Crystal once again.
"Uggh, get off me ya fat dwarf" Crystal complained, trying to shake the body on top of her, off her.
Lily whacked Crystal over the head for the statement before finally getting up and looking around. After Crystal got up and could breathe easier with the weight off her, she looked around too.
"Soooooo, any idea how teh crahp we got here? Or in fact, where "here" is?" Lily asked frantically, waving her arms about and spinning in circles.
Crystal looked around quizzically, not having a clue as to where they were. It was some type of underground tunnel, that she knew, and when she looked up she realized that they had both fallen quite the large height and it would be impossible to get back up there again.
Crystal sighed as Lily continued spinning while flapping her arms, looking more panicked by the minute. Crystal whacked her arms down and said "The only thing I know is that we ain't getting back up there again, so we'll have to trek forward." As she pointed upwards towards the hole, Lily also realized just how far down they were...and started freaking out more.
"OH MAI LAWD WE'RE NEVAH GETTING OUT I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE MY ANIME OR FANGIRL OR STALK TEH INTERWEBZ AGAIN OH NOES" She squawked, as she walked in even faster circles, her arms waving even more frantically.
Crystal rolled her eyes and huffed, then started dragging the practically sobbing girl forward through the tunnel, knowing that hanging around wasn't going to do anything.
"Friend, I'm sure you'll get back to your stalking habits soon enough, but for now, LET US GO ON AN ADVENTURE!" Crystal said, now imagining herself as an excited Bilbo Baggins, going on his first adventure, which made her quicken her walking pace.
Lily sniffled as she was dragged. "I'm still gonna get my chocolate milk, riight?" She said in a meek voice, giving sad, pitiful puppy eyes to Crystal. Crystal sighed and said "If we happen to find Niagara Falls converted to chocolate milk, you can have that, aight?" Lily then leaped out of Crystal's hold in excitement and started power-walking forwards, leaving a surprised and slightly disoriented Crystal behind.
When Crystal finally regained her sense of direction, she jogged after the British-hybrid, knowing that if she was left unsupervised worse things would happen...
And Crystal was completely right, as soon as Lily was out of her sight, she had gotten herself into a..."situation"
"I'M TELLING YOU MY NAME AIN'T FREAKING ALICE"
"IT'S NO USE DENYING IT, I'D KNOW ALICE ANYWHERE AND YOU'RE HER!"
"CRYYYYYYSSSTTAAAAAAAL!"
At the sound of her voice being called, the blonde girl sped up her pace and came to a large room where Lily seemed to be arguing with...A dormouse? Crystal looked confused and then remembered that it was Lily that she was looking at and decided that that made the situation somewhat less abnormal.
"What te crahp is happening here?"
Lily glared at the dormouse (who glared quite fiercely back at her) and replied, "This dormouse seems to think that I'm someone called Alice..."
Crystal studied Lily. "Weeeellllllll...You do look rather Alice I must say,"
The dormouse looked triumphantly at Lily and said in a rather high-pitched voice, "I TOLD YOU SO!"
Lily looked murderously at Crystal and Crystal looked rather amusedly back at her.
"I will get thee for this..."
"I don't find that particularly threatening you know."
"I hate you."
Crystal just rolled her eyes and then remembered that they were supposed to be finding a way out of their predicament. She took in their surroundings.
The floor was marble and had a black and white checkered pattern and in the center there was a glass table. On the other side there was another oak door, resembling the one she had found in her wardrobe.
She was about to suggest that the door might lead to a way out but before she could do so, Lily had started arguing with the Dormouse again...
Crystal rolled her eyes again as Lily continued to be adamant that she wasn't, in fact, Alice. However the dormouse was even more adamant that she was.
"DO I LOOK BLONDE TO YE? DO I? NOPE. AM I WEARING A DRESS? AM I? NOPE. SO THAT MEANS, I AIN'T YO ALICE!" Lily practically yelled, while the little dormouse's fur appeared to be getting redder by the minute from his fury. Crystal briefly wondered how so much anger could be contained in such a small body.
The dormouse stuttered "J-J-JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BLONDE AND WEARING A DRESS DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT ALICE!" He replied back, his high squeaky voice was on the verge of breaking.
Crystal, getting sicker of this by the minute, decided there was only one way to end this. She stomped over the the glass table, and flipped it completely over, making quite a few cracks in the glass and even some shards came loose.
Lily and the dormouse snapped their heads over in surprise at the loud noise, their arguing gone completely silent. Crystal stared at them, not blinking, daring them to say something. Everyone practically froze in those few moments.
When Crystal decided that they weren't going to argue, she straightened up, losing the intimidating face and going on like nothing had happened "I do believe that the door over there will lead us out of this room, will it not?" She asked the dormouse, the sweet tone of her voice hiding the murderous actions she would do to the dormouse if the door didn't lead them out of there.
The dormouse shakily nodded, pointing a trembling finger towards the door "Y-y-y-yes, it does lead out of here, but d-do be careful, there are some strange creatures and beings out there that could be quite dangerous." He said shakily, still fearing what might happen to him if he didn't say the right thing.
Lily, finally snapping out of her shock, scoffed and said "We ARE strange creatures. Frankly, anything out there might want to avoid US". Crystal nodded with her wholeheartedly, knowing that the two of them could get into some interesting events...like arguing with a dormouse.
The two of them approached the door, wondering what could be lying on the other side. The dormouse watched them as they opened the door and went outside...
The girls stepped out of the door and rather than finding dry land as they expected, they landed with a loud splash into some kind of...sea?
Lily spluttered as she swallowed some of the salty water. It stung her throat and eyes as she flapped about trying to find something to grab into.
Crystal had been a little more fortunate and had found a rather large umbrella to sit in and was paddling frantically over to Lily, knowing full well that she couldn't swim.
After rescuing the half drowned "Alice", the two tried to observe their surroundings. But it was rather hard, seeing as it was pelting with rain. That and Lily forgot her glasses...again...
"What should we do?"
Lily reached into her bag and pulled something out. "She must have something in there that could be of use!" thought Crystal.
Lily held something out to Crystal. "Crumpet?" She asked.
Lily was promptly smacked over the head by Crystal.