KrissyKat91: Once upon a time, KrissyKat91 started to write an "Alice returns to Wonderland" story. She had the prologue, the first chapter, and part of the second chapter done when tragedy struck. Her laptop crashed, and since she wasn't in the habit of backing up her hard drive very often, she lost a lot of stories. So now, she is going to try to rewrite some, and hope they come out as good the second time around.
EXTENDED SYNOPSIS: When a strange dream prompts Alice Kingsley to return to Underland several years after she last left it, she finds Iracebeth of Crims has returned, along with a dangerous new ally known only as the Hypnotist. With his help she has enslaved Underland and turned most of Alice's friends against her. Now Alice must race to Gryphon's Point to learn the location of the Heart of Underland, the one artifact with the power to free everyone from Iracebeth's iron grip, with only Chessur the Cheshire Cat to guide her. But the Cat has problems of his own.
Prologue: Home Again
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Kingsleigh stretched as she stood on the deck of the S. S. Elizabeth.
It had been six years since she had left for China, six long years since she had been on English soil. She honestly couldn't say she had missed it. She'd been happy in the Orient, happier than she could ever recall being. The only reason she was even returning was because her father's dream had finally been realized, and she no longer had an excuse to stay.
"Miss Kingsleigh?"
Blinking, Alice turned to face the captain.
"If you would be so kind as to go below deck and ascertain that all your luggage is packed, we shall be docking in a little over half an hour."
"Thank you," Alice murmured, the English words sounding odd after such a long time of only speaking and hearing Mandarin Chinese.
After watching the ocean for a few more minutes, the blonde woman turned to go back to her quarters, only to stumble as her vision was suddenly filled with an image of Chessur the Cheshire Cat, running down a path in the Tulgy Wood, distinctive grin absent and eyes wild with terror.
An instant later, everything returned to normal. Alice goggled at nothing for a moment, then shook her head. She couldn't have just seen what she thought she saw. It simply wasn't possible.
Nodding firmly to herself, Alice hurried down the stairs to her quarters, forgetting, for the moment, that nearly everything in Underland could be considered impossible to those from the Above.
