This is a story I have had going on in my head for a very long time and I can't help but write it down. Now, I have two stories going…but that doesn't matter because you are reading this one.
So, I hope you enjoy this very…twisted version of Alice in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland © to Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel.
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Chapter 1
It was a nice day. A Fall day. The leaves had fallen, and the trees were bare. Ready for winter to cast it's way once more through it's branches. A girl sat on a pile of leaves, reading through a small book. It was bound in black leather and her face had sunk into it. Reading every word thoroughly. She would laugh occasionally and take the pencil that was hanging out of her mouth and write something inside.
"Poe, you get me every time." She whispered and closed the poetry.
Eve wasn't normal. She had a tendency to be socially handicapped at every school she could find, not to mention her unappreciated sense of style that everyone found offensive. For Casual day, she would wear her corset with 3 petticoats and fantastic black combat boots that took her forever to find.
The reason wasn't that she hated everything about her small town in the middle of nowhere. It was that everyone that lived there wasn't like her. They didn't understand why she loved The Cure, The Sex Pistols, or any of those punk bands that seemed forgotten amongst Brittney Spears and 50 Cent. Who would understand why she liked to read poetry other than play the sport that everyone seemed to think was a great deal, Soccer?
It was like a curse. And the only way she could escape was by doing things her own way. Never become like them and never follow them. When she becomes 18, she'll drive to New York and stay there for the rest of her life. If something doesn't stop her anyway.
"EVE MARYLIN!" A shrill voice caught her hear across the courtyard. It was Sister Brimming. She was the English teacher at Jameson's Private School. And that's not the only thing, she was the most religious woman you'd ever meet since Carrie's mom.
"I TOLD YOU TIME AND TIME AGAIN! GET TO CLASS!" Her voice was loud for a 60 year old woman. She was frail and her hair was going from gray, to white.
"Sorry Sister Brimming. I just wanted to indulge myself in Classic English Literature which you love to talk about in class." Eve smiled and picked up her backpack.
The Nun sighed angrily and rubbed her temples. "Eve, please. Just get to your 1st hour. I really don't think I want to send you to the Principal."
So, Eve wiped off the leaves sticking to her black skirt and striped stockings(Which she fought for to wear instead of the usual white stockings) than smiled to the Nun and headed off into the building.
"Stupid school…Stupid Nun's." She slowly walked down the hallways, muttering to herself.
The school was old and the floorboards had creaked for the past 20 years, the only thing that was missing was the cobwebs. But they kept the place too clean to let that happen.
Eve rounded a corner and stared into a deserted hallway. The Classrooms had been blocked off here on the Second Floor because a boy fell through a few years back. He died, and they say that it was haunted. She didn't mean to come through this way. She must have messed up and missed classroom's 20-29. Not that it wasn't the coolest setting in the world, but ghost's scared her. And so, she turned and started to walk away…but something caught her eye.
There was a mirror on the floor. It wasn't too big, but it wasn't small either, the glass shined strangely. How could it be shining when there was no light? Eve looked closer at the item on the floor. There was a gold rim around the glass and it had strange designs on them. She walked into the hallway carefully and slowly, making sure not to step anywhere she would regret.
Eventually, she stopped in front of the mirror and looked down at her reflection. But it wasn't her reflection, instead, there were trees and grass and a strange looking bird walking on its head. But by the time she realized this wasn't an ordinary mirror, she felt a strange force push her down to the floor, and she fell into the mirror.
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Who ever heard of such a crazy thing? Falling into a mirror. But it happened. And she was there. In the woods, with grass and a strange bird walking on its head.
"What the hell?!" She shouted, and stood up from the ground. "What is going on?"
The bird quacked at her and she looked at it strangely. Its wing was sticking out to a path in front of her. But the strange thing was, the ground was purple. And she could hear voices farther down the path.
And so, she started walking. Slowly, at first. But then she walked faster as the voices got louder.
"Shut UP! The Queen will hear you!" A boy shouted, his voice was deeper and louder.
"But I don't have to Dummy! You can't make me do anything!" The girl's voice was angry and mean.
Eve then came upon complete silence as she rounded a corner in the path. It had led her to a small clearing with a stump in the middle and a rather large tree a little ways in front of it.
Two people, a boy and a girl were posing in front of the large tree. They were dressed madly.
The boy, dressed in a green vest with patches and a purple turtleneck, had a large purple Mohawk. He was leaning against the tree, staring towards the path in stony silence, not even blinking. The girl, with red hair and a yellow corset with a dress that looked as though it had been cut to become short.
"E-excuse me?" Eve walked up to them.
"Who goes there?" And the girl jumped out of her stance and threw a knife out of nowhere towards Eve.
"Holy crap!" Eve dodged the knife just in time and turned to look back at where it hit a tree.
"DEE! What the bloody hell are you doing?!" The boy turned toward the girl, who's name was Dee, and shouted in her face.
"What?" She whined, looking slightly melancholy. "I always wanted to say that!"
"Can you tell me what is going on?" Eve asked, looking back to the two crazy people.
The boy turned to look at her and sighed. "What's your name?" he asked.
Out of everything, he asks what her name is?! Eve narrowed her eyes and looked at him. "My name…is Eve. Why do you ask?"
Dee widened her eyes and jumped off the branch she was sitting on and landed on the ground. "You're an outsider?" She asked.
"Well, I don't know how the hell I got here!" And Eve moved closer.
"She's the one that's supposed to help us!" The boy said and smiled. He laughed and walked up to her. "You need to kill us!" he exclaimed.
Eve raised an eyebrow. "Say what?"
"You need to kill us. Can't you hear? Oh, Dum she can't hear." Dee walked up to Eve and looked at her ears closely.
The boy, Dum, rolled his eyes and quickly ran to tear the knife out of the tree Dee threw it at. Eve kept her confused face as Dee continued to inspect her ears.
"You see, you are in a place called Wonderland." Dum yanked the knife out and turned to her. "But, it's not been very wondrous after Alice died."
"Wait, you mean Alice, from Alice in Wonderland? The books?" Eve questioned, completely confused.
"They made books did they? Alice WAS a bit of a tattle tale." Dee said.
"Well, she died. And so, the world that was once Wonderland fell. You see, it was her dreamland. She created it. And so, when she died, Wonderland died with her." Dum explained.
"Of course, as she got older, her visits became less frequent. So, after her imagination fell into old age, she visited through a looking glass." Dee giggled and danced as she said this.
"Now that the land had died, we needed help. And there were only two people that could help us. The Queen of Hearts, or the Mad Hatter. I guess you can see who we chose." Dum pointed to a patch on his shoulder. It was a red heart, but he had put an X through it with a black marker or something.
"So, she started to rule and fix Wonderland to what it is today. But she has gone overboard. The Government is exterminating all people related to Alice, the girl that created them. Of course, that is a great many people." Dee sat on the stump. "So, many of these people have formed an Alliance."
"A rebellion." Dum said, lightly punching the patched heart on his shoulder.
"Wait. I'm confused. How in the world…why in the world would you do that? What's the point?" Eve asked, slowly coming to realization that she was probably stuck here.
"Well, isn't it just wrong? Destroying the very thing that created this world? Alice's mind was of great imaginary skill. She was…advanced." Dum stated.
"And destroying what she made is wrong…right? Because SHE was the one that made this place and it should stay the way she made it." Eve explained this out loud.
"Exactly! You understand!" Dum smiled and held out the knife to her.
"Because Alice died, we died along with her. We aren't the people we were when she was alive. And we never will be those people again. This change in our world hasn't changed in so long. Were stuck the way we are." Dee stood up and walked toward the other Tweedle.
"But, if you kill us…you will bring us back to life again. I don't know how that works. But it's what you must do. To everyone in Wonderland that Alice created. Other things are of the Queen's imagination such as the card soldiers and the various animals and people." Dum once more held the knife in front of her.
Eve sighed. This was too much. A little while ago, she was in a tiny town, in a tiny building just looking down at a strange mirror. And here she was. But…it wasn't anything too strange. She felt something here. It was like…a pulse. Slow, but it was there.
"You can feel it too can't you?" Dee asked, looking at her expression.
Eve nodded slowly, not really knowing what she meant.
"That's Wonderland. The old one anyways. It's still a little more alive. Because of people like you." Dum said, and put the knife in her hand.
Eve looked down at the knife. And she clasped it tightly. "I- I can try…" she said, and looked up at Dum.
He was smiling once again, and she smiled weakly back. She'd never killed anybody before. It wasn't something she really wanted to do. Ever. So when she was asked of this, it scared her.
"Alright, all you have to do is quickly, jab it in my stomach. And then quickly take it out." Dum spread his arms wide and looked at her…waiting.
She started to put her hand out, but she drew it back quickly. "Um…I can't." She said.
He walked up to her and put his hands over hers on the knife. And quickly shoved it inside of his stomach.
There was no blood, just a loud grunt from the boy. And then he fell to the ground.
Eve then came up to him and helped him stand up. The tear in the shirt from the knife was gone and he looked up at Eve and smiled broadly.
"Did it work? Are you alive?" Eve asked worriedly.
"I…feel great!" Dum exclaimed, and looked down at where she had stabbed him.
"Jeez Dummy. I thought you'd gone out!" she said, giving him a hug.
"No, I'm fine. Now it's your turn." Dee widened her eyes at her brother and looked at Eve.
"Um…O-okay." She said and stood in front of Eve.
"Alright…I think I can do it by myself this time." Eve quickly slashed the knife across Dee's stomach and Dee grasped the wound and held onto Dum's sleeve as he helped her stay up.
"Bloody hell!" Dee cried.
"I'm sorry! Did I hit the wrong spot or something?" Eve asked, cradling the handle of the knife in her hands.
"No, she's fine. It's just her Drama Queen thing kicking in." Dum said as Dee straightened out and flipped her pigtails to make it look like nothing happened.
"Man, you guys are so much different in the books than you are now." Eve pondered.
"Well, Alice did like to exaggerate a little bit." Dee explained, walking towards the stump.
Eve looked around at the two siblings. They were completely warped from the two fat, funny hat wearing brothers that Lewis Carroll described. Eve chuckled into her hand and realized that these were the people she had been looking for forever. The people who were just like her.
Maybe Wonderland really was wondrous.
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"Well, are you going to help us take care of the entire Wonderland and kill the dreaded Queen?" Dum asked, as if it were the most obvious question.
"Wait…who ever said anything about killing a Queen?" Eve asked, after putting the knife in her skirt pocket.
"Well, we need someone outside of Wonderland to kill us. We can't kill each other. We've been doing that since Alice died, and we usually stay dead when that's the case." Dum explained.
"Well, how would we kill her? Where do we go? I'm not even dressed like a Wonderlandian. Or whatever you guys call each other." Eve pointed to her light jacket over a white tucked in dress shirt with a black tie.
"We can fix all that. Dee and I aren't all that poor you know. We did buy this square of land." He said.
"Well, the thing I don't get is, why me?" She sat on the stump and put her head in her hands.
Dee sat next to her and put a hand on her back. "It's alright Eve Dearest. Think of it as an escape from that unreality you live in."
"Well, that's the truth. You guys are awesome. I mean, no one is like me where I live. They're all…normal." Eve sighed and laughed. "I sound so stupid."
The two siblings gasped and nodded their heads in shame. "Normal?!" Dee shouted.
"There is no normal, only odd with sensibility." Dum stated, putting his finger in the air as if stating a fact.
Eve couldn't help herself. She started to laugh. It burst from her quicker than she could stop it and sooner or later, they were all laughing so hard, tears rolled down their cheeks.
"That…was…the most…stupid thing." Eve continued laughing.
"Hey, I am the Tweedle with the brain." He said.
They continued to laugh until Dee understood what he said and punched him in the stomach.
"So…Eve. What is your decision?" Dum asked, turning serious after flicking his sister in the nose.
The odd girl looked once more at the scene around her, and the two people she had met, killed, and become friends with. She noticed that she wasn't all alone anymore. At least, for the time being. And if it was a dream, and she was only to wake up soon, she would at least have had an adventurous one.
"Let's go massacre Wonderland." And she stood up and joined the two Tweedle's in a unique discussion of how they would kill the entirety of Alice's creations a long with a power hungry Queen.
Edgar's Poetry could wait.
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Chapter 1 of Anarchy in Wonderland. Please review, they are greatly appreciated, and not to mention, the incredibly hilarious Hatter is up next. Don't miss out on the fun!
