okay so this is just my little note: this fanfiction takes place after the looking glass wars, seeing redd and whatever the third one will be. It has Alyss moments along with all the other orignal characters (that are left after seeing redd) but it's mostly based on Alyss daughter.

sorry I'm not the best writer ever but I'm trying R&R please!

LawRyn

Chapter one, A princesses birthday tragedy

Queen Alyss Heart took a deep breath and sighed, in her arms was a small bundled child who was quietly sleeping. A small one year old girl. At her side was Captain of her royal gaurd, and husband, Dodge Anders. He smiled at her and at the girl.

"Happy birthday my little Ryah." he whispered to the girl. Alyss slowly stood from her thrown and walked down the isle towards the balcony. All of Wondertropolis would be in the courtyard waiting to celebrate the first birthday of their Princess.

"Hatter. Molly." Alyss nodded at her two gaurds. The Milliners opened the large glass doors and Alyss stepped through into the sunlight and happy cheers of Wonderland.
Already on the balcony waiting Bibwit Harte and General DoppleGanger stood against the walls, each of them bowed their heads and Alyss passed.

Below Alyss could see the faces of the excited Wonderlanders, tarty tart vendors made their way through the crowd selling the many variaties of tarty tarts. Around the walls of the courtyard she could see the card soldiers lined up to guard all of the guests. The odd Milliner was amongst them standing like a statue in perfect Millinery behaviour. Alyss could make out Bowler Tomas standing between a Two Card and a Four Card and just across from him was Enfeild Sarrah.

Along the base of the castle walls stood five Pawn Soldiers. Each there to keep Alyss and her court safe.
"Good afternoon!" Alyss smiled to her people. They cheered then went silent. "One year ago today my beautiful girl Ryah was born. Today she is one. Let us now celebrate the first birthday of Princess Ryah Heart of Wonderland!" With that Queen Alyss raised Ryah up to let all of Wonderland see the one year old princess. The crowd let out a loud cheer and began to clap.

Then with a loud crash and a strong gust of wind Alyss was pushed down to the floor. As were all of her gaurds including Hatter Madigan and Homburg Molly. A dark cloaked figure stood above Alyss, in it's arms was a screaming bundle, Ryah. The figure laughed and then disappeared with a cloud of smoke.
"NO!" screamed Queen Alyss at the top of her lungs but no sound escaped. Another gust of wind pushed her back and knocked her out.

"Little little Princess Ryah, what should I do with you?" laughed the cloaked figure, "For you see your mother owes me a very large favour and I would like to cash in on it. Don't you think she should?" Ryah only continued to cry and scream. She desperatley tried to wiggle out of her blankets but couldn't.

"Now,now my little princess calm down I will not hurt you, not in the least, I just feel your mother needs to learn of loss before she can fullfill my one small favour." the figure explained. Ryah stopped moving, she stopped screaming, she stopped crying. Somehow she felt better. The figure carefully placed her down on a bed made of straw and removed the hood. A pale face with glowing green eyes smiled down at her. The man was completley unfamiliar, but then again Ryah had never seen anyone outside of her mothers court.

"Little princess, my name is Quigly Gaffer, a long long time ago when your mother was just a girl she ruined my life. You see a long time ago when your mother was just small she fell through the pool of tears into my world. I found her in the middle of the street wet, cold and alone.

Being the kind boy I was I took her into my troup of orphans and runaways. Things went well at first until she could no longer bring in any money for us. Then after my careful planning to get us food she got caught! Along with the others! Otis,Charlie, Andrew, Maragret and Francine! All caught by the London Royal Gaurd! Sent away to orphanages or back home, Charlie was sent to jail! Luckily enough Esther and I escaped. We spent years together coming up with ways to get little Alice back for what she had done to us! We searched the orphanages to find her but couldn't. Finally another like her appeared, Redd. She promised us revenge! She even sent us ahead to come live in Wonderland so we could attack from within the city! We never got the chance, not after Redd lost her powers of imagination!

All thanks to your mothers top Milliner! So now we've been living here under your mother rule! Not once has she ever gone back to help out the people she left behind on the other side of the pool of tears! Not once! So now Esther and I have come up with our own plan to get revenge. You see princess it is nothing personal towards you but if you must be cast out now it will only be for the better, you may even avoid being braught up during a war." Ryah just looked at him, she was only one, she had no idea what he was saying or what was going on. For the earths sake she could barley walk. Quigly paced around her running his hands along the stone walls that incased them. Slowly and quietly he began to hum a small lullaby, each time he hummed a verse he got louder and faster.

"The Pool of Tears may lead you away but for now just relax and play, little princess can't you see your a big part of Wonderlands destiney." he sang quietly. Ryahs eyelids dropped and soon she was sound asleep. Quigly laughed coldly to himself, soon Wonderland would be his and this little baby princess would be his way into power. With a small smile on her face Esther came into the room carrying a bundle, in the bundle was a small baby girl, completley identical to Ryah.

The next morning Esther silently crept away to the pool of tears carrying a still sleeping Ryah. The trees whispered amongst themseleves. Was it really Princess Ryah?
"Hush up or I'll set you all on fire!" Esther snapped at them, instantley the trees stopped their whispering and went silent. Esther smirked to herself they were close enough to the Pool of Tears that the trees were growing farther and farther apart letting in light from above. Soon Esther stood at the edge of the Pool of Tears and looked down at it. She would drop Ryah into the world that Esther had grown up in.

Into a life that would be sure to break any spirit that the princess might have. Growing up in that world without the power of imagination, this princess could do no harm to Wonderland now, now her own daughter would grow up royalty and have a good life and power. Of coarse Esther couldn't just simply drop Ryah down into the pool, she would surely be killed on impact to the surface of the pool. She needed some one to go with her. Esther whistled a long high pitched sound. Birds flew from the trees and the flowers screached a complaint. From behind a tree stepped a shadowed figure.

"Come here you stupid boy!" Esther snarled. The boy came forward, his face dark and cold. However the face belonged to a boy who was no more than seven years of age. "Take the baby Charlie, then jump into the Pool of Tears. Find a suitable orphanage for the girl and come home to mommy." Charlie held out his arms and Esther dropped the bundle into his arms.
"There's a good boy." Esther cooed, she took a small step back and pushed her son down off the edge towards the Pool of Tears.

Quigly stood outside the gates of the Heart Palace. Two Rooks were there as gaurds.
"I need to speak to Queen Alyss." he calmly informed them. The Rooks looked at each other, the one on the right nodded and opened the gate. Just inside the gates stood yet another set of Rooks.

"This way sir." One of them said, the started to lead Quigly down a stone walkway towards the palace entrence. Quigly walked slowly, if he went to quickly he could risk wakeing the child in his arms. His very own child, Julianna. The child who was identical to Princess Ryah in everyway. Even their personality was absolutley identical, no one not even a mother could tell the diffrence. Since neither girl was old enough to remember what was going on now, there was no chance for a mix up once they grew older. Down the glass hallway of the palace was Alyss' thrown room. Card Soldiers surrounded the room. At the very end of the room was Queen Alyss sitting in her thrown.

To her right was Hatter Madigan and to her left was Homburg Molly.
"Your majesty." Quigly said falling to one knee before her. "My name is Quigly Gaffer and I have found your daughter." Alyss looked up in shock, Mollys mouth hung open and Hatter stepped forward. Quigly lifted the bundle out for Alyss to take.

"I found a woman carrying her towards the Pool of Tears. I stopped the woman and snatched Ryah away. I'm sorry that I could not catch the woman she was to fast." Quigly explained. "But I would gladdly give a discription of her to your soldiers. The important thing is that the princess is back, is it not?" Alyss jumped up and dashed over to where Quigly kneeled. She snatched the bundle up and looked at her girl.

"Oh my baby Ryah!" she gasped. Alyss stood there rocking the child she thought was hers back and forth, completley unaware that this child was an imposter. After having enough of an embrace with her daughter Alyss looked down at Quigly, memories flashing through her mind.
"You did say Quigly Gaffer did you not?" she asked him. "From London England by chance?" Quigly grinned, she remembered him.
"Why yes your majesty." Quigly said with fake surprise. "How did you know that?" Alyss just looked at him, obviously not wanting to reveal herself to soon.

"Your accent." Alyss replied "Your from England on the other side of the Pool of Tears."
"Queen Alyss," interupted a Four Card "there is some one here to see you!" Alyss looked up shocked, she hadn't been expecting anyone, but of coarse through the doors stepped the Lady of Clubs. Alyss sighed and quietly excussed herself.