Disclaimer: I do not own Heart no kuni no Alice, or any of its characters. Wish I did.

Her pov

I waked out of the antique store. It was probably a fraud, but I really liked it. It was a small book that smelled of dust and a hint of moss, probably from bad storage. The cover of it was a picture of a girl, with delicate writing stating the title of the novel "Alice through the looking glass". I hadn't even taken the time to look through it, I didn't care, I just had this irresistible urge to take it. It had cost my allowance of the month, I can tell you that it's not worth much, but still.

I opened the book at a random page while walking. The page was blank, not the slightest sign of ink on it. I felt a not in my stomach. I flipped through all of it franticly. Nothing. Or almost. When I went to the first page, one sentence was written, in a graceful and delicate handwriting.

You shall follow the rules; the first is to listen to me

What… what kind of book is this! I though I would have a good read. But all there is is a silly sentence. I can't believe this. I'm starting to have a headache because of it, how stupid! Yet I can't find the courage to throw it away. Well, I did spend a good amount of money on it; maybe that's why I fell so… attached to it. I'll just check the next page, just to make sure I didn't miss something. And if there is nothing, I'll just let this piece of crap in the back of my closet to rot. Or maybe sell it to someone else.

Now, child, go past the mirror

What? What does that mean? I snapped it closed. But damn, that headache is getting so much worse. Maybe I hit myself? I looked at my reflection in one of the stores show glass, in a childish hope that I could understand better my discomfort.

All I saw was a girl. Not me, no, she had some traits similar to mine, but, she was definably different. Her hair a little darker than my blond one, the height and the body shape was not quite the same. The only thing that stood out as different was our eyes. Mine ha always been a deep brown, with tints of yellow, but hers where blue, maybe turquoise, and so… desperate.

Something sharply stinged within my skull, like if a needle had penetrated it. I felt my conscience lose me slowly.

Now, child, go past the mirror

I felt my body move on its own towards the glass. It felt like water as I entered it. I lost consciousness as I fell in the mirror.

Normal pov

The day had been quite noisy. It started early in the morning, when Alice went to the hatter mansion, dragged in by the twins. She wasn't looking up to the weather, but she still endured the noisy bloody twins. It was when the afternoon came that something strange happened. Given from the beginning that it was strange that morning and afternoon were in the right order, something stranger happened to Alice. She fell unconscious after being stricken by a strange pain.

Much at the twins protest, and Elliot was not thrilled with it either, they returned her to the clock tower, in hope that Julius had an idea of the illness that might have hit the girl. He had no idea himself, but took her in, shooing the boys right away. She was clutching her chest, talking in her unpeacefull slumber. Julius asked Nightmare for assistance. Maybe if he entered her dreams he could discover at the very least what kind of pain she was stricken by.

To the great surprise of both men, nightmare had difficulty entering it. All he had gotten access to was a few words from a panicked Alice.

I don't want to go! Let me stay here!

It didn't take a genius to see what was happening to her. She was being pulled back to her world, weather she wanted to or not. In hope to keep her in the land of hearts a little longer, maybe even find a solution, nightmare put Alice in a deep comatic slumber.

So the two men had settled down and started to read some of Julius "special books". The unsocial man had a limited array of books, most of them related to his line of work. But a few were about special rule of the land of hearts, and a bit of its history. These books where rare, and enclosed important information about almost anything.

They hoped that they would find a way to save Alice enclosed in them, and they did.

My body ached so badly as I awakened. When I finally built up the energy to open up my eyes, all I could see was green. I was flat on my stomach on the soft grown. My feet were wet. As I stood, I took in my surrounding. I was in a forest, probably in the middle of summer judging by the temperature. I realised my feet where in a pound. It had the strange property to lightly glow from the inside out. Not powerfully, but noticeably.

'I'm probably dreaming' their was no other option. I was probably at the hospital having a strange dream. I could at least enjoy this dream while it lasted.

I took e few tentive steps, hoping not to lose my balance or consciousness once again. Everything seemed fine. Nothing was going to happen if I stayed here, so I decided try my luck and hope to find some signs of civilisation. It didn't take long, for I ended up in a town. It felt all so odd. But aren't all dreams that way?

As I continued to venture further from the forest, I ended up in a strange amusement park. It was just as flashy as the ones I had the chance to go during my childhood, just… tackier. The outfits of the employees were probably the worst, so I just continued to anywhere far from them. I sharply turned a corner to avoid one that was right behind me when…

Bam

But nothing could bet the oddness of the person who just bumped into me. The first thing I noticed was his pink hair, and the strange wiggling matching…

"CAT EARS!" I stated in shock. How the heck did he ever obtain pink hair like that, and even less ears! Had genetic engineering advanced so quickly that they could add parts to human beings! I stepped away from… him? Ya, looks like a him when I took a better look at him, it?

His clothing where just as odd, a punk look, and a big pink furry boa laying on his shoulder. "Yes, cat ears, is it really all the weird?" he had a light playful smirk plastered on his face, as if it could never disappear.

"No?" was all that I could say. My expression must have been funny, because he started to laugh. I could fell the blood rush up to my checks. How dare he laugh so openly at my confusion, did he have no basic manners? I turned on my toes, any tacky employee would be better than him!

I felt his hand fall on my shoulder as I heard him try to calm is laughter. "Sorry, sorry, it's just that your expression looked cute" like flattery was going to make me forget, but I must admit it makes me feel better…

'Don't get distracted by the compliments!' I looked up at his face as defiantly as I could "Well I would appreciate that you let go of me, I don't like it when stranger act so familiarly with me"

He smiled more widely "well that doesn't have to stay that way dose it!" I was about to protest when he grabbed me by the wand and dragged me towards an ominous looking ride. "I'm Boris".

"And I'm out of here!" I took my hand out of his and ran. I wasn't going to go on some play date with a perfect stranger, a very weird one to boot. I lost him after a few minutes of running and tight turning. I was back in the town, within a little park that was mostly empty. I was taking my breath when I felt a familiar weight in my hand.

The small book I had bought was in it. Funny I hadn't felt it earlier. But when I unclenched it I realised how hard I had been holding on to it. Red and white pressure marks had embedded them selves in my palm. I flipped through it ones more, maybe this time again it would have a new sentence written in it. And it did. What a strange dream…

Go to the clock tower, and make your decision.

Again with the orders. Might as well play along. I looked around me, maybe their would be direction to this clock place. In the horizon I could see a Tower overlooking the city. That was probably it.

As I directed myself to it, I saw the pink haired boy with a few other strange looking characters. They didn't seem like they enjoyed each others company much, a little like class mates stuck that hated each other in a team project that determined their final grade. I naturally hid myself a little, as I tried to listen to their conversation.

"Common, I want to go see Alice, could you all hurry up!" Said the boy named Boris.

"You're not the only one!" said a young dark haired boy in a blue outfit.

"Ya, ya! We want to see her too!" said an identical boy in a red outfit.

"Stop complaining! Just hurry, I want to see my lovely Alice" said franticly a tall man with white hair and… bunny ears? This dream is just getting weirder and weirder.

Well this was an assembly of weirdoes, and they seemed to go to be going to the same place as me. I tried to keep a good distance from the group of weirdos while still trying to go to my objective. I would probably be best if I found a place to hide out before I go to …

"Nee-san!"

I felt a sudden weight hit me in the back as I crashed to the ground tackled by to short entities.

"W-what? Since when do I have little brothers?" I stared at the two happy boys. But their expressions quickly changed to that of surprise.

"He! You're not Onee-san!" said the one in blue

"I hope not! I was scared I had illegitim brothers all of a sudden!" I couldn't help to declare. Sure, I had been called that a few times by kids, but it felt odd to me, since I was the youngest of my family.

"But she looks like her doesn't she brother!" the one in red declared to his twin. They both clinged to my arms. "You can come with us to meet her"

"I'm sorry but I already have some…" I stopped when I saw to glittering sharp metal objects in front of my face. Where did those come from! "Umm… ok?" I answered, in hope to keep my head.

"Can we get going now!" said the bunny man as I was dragged to the tower by the two armed children.

So I'm going to stop it their. Will make chapter 2 more interesting.

p.s. it normal that she doesn't have a name

please review and bare some of my obvious spelling mistakes, being French has its down sides.