Disclaimer: This world doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Tim Burton. There I said it. .

Author's Note: New creature is the Kukaroo which is a half dog half bird like creature. It has wings like a bird, a head like a dog, it stands and is almost structured like a bird when it comes to it's posture and skeleton. The animal's wings are covered in long feathers while the rest of it's body is covered in fur. The creatures legs, have bird like feet. This creature called the Kukaroo has one set of legs and one set of wings. Remember that and don't think it looks like a griffon, by far it is not. Oh it's tail is short and stubby. Think blood hound with wings, with the tail cut off, and no front legs standing like a bird.

The hatter watched as Alice disappeared, hearing what she had said he thought of the same thing but at the last moment as he took his drink of Jabberwocky blood he had thought of the Red Queen's palace and how he had managed to escape death that day by allowing the Cheshire cat to borrow his hat. So only naturally his thoughts crossed at wanting his hat back and he appeared before the Cheshire cat after things faded from color to grey to black back to color again. The cat stared at him before rubbing his eyes.

"Well Hatter you've been missing for a few hours and wham, you're back again in front of me and you appeared out of no-where like I would do," The Cheshire stated before frowning.

"What brings you to this neck of Underland?" The cat asked curiously. Tarrant blinked then looked around.

"Wait, I'm not at the tea party? Where am I?" Tarrant asked.

"Well you're in my little domain the queen gave me. It's a secret place that takes a while to leave if you can't do what I can do and I fear you might be able to," Chessur said with a smile upon his face. The hatter shook his head then sighed.

"I fear that was the Jabberwocky blood and not of my real own accord. I wanted to be at my Tea party but obviously I thought something other than what I originally wanted," The hatter responded solemnly. Chessur frowned then shrugged.

"Well I'm not going to lead you out of here if you're planning on asking me that. I just know how to get out of here using what I know," Chessur replied before disappearing.

"Oh what a bunch of help you are," The hatter grumbled before looking around. He was in a forest tangle of mess. He sighed then started to make his way out knowing he'd be extremely late to what he would've like to have shown up to on time.

Hours and hours of fighting with the tangled forest and he probably made it only half-way out of the forest. He was determined and wouldn't let anything get into his way as he made his way through, keeping his mind occupied with Alice as his main prerogative. He still had that ring and she had said yes but he hadn't given it to her.

"Alice, if it's the last thing I do, I will find you," He stated mainly to himself.

Alice waited, over eight hours before falling asleep at the tea table. When she woke up she found herself still at the table but in a different outfit. The outfit was made up of clothe that unless layered was translucent. As well as that about her new outfit it made her look almost like a butterfly. Her new outfit was a dress that was blue with some black spots here and there and around those black spots yellow. She frowned then looked around to find what had changed her clothes. Upon finding nothing she simply got up and decided she would look for the hatter in places she had found him before starting first by searching in his house then heading off to the Marmoreal.

The white queen was outside talking with Bayard before the dog perked his ears up then looked towards Alice.

"Alice! We thought you'd never come back to Underland. Why are you here?" The dog asked before making his way alongside the queen to greet the girl. She looked around then looked to the white queen.

"I'm looking for Tarrant Hightopp… The Hatter, Do you know where he's at?" She asked. The queen frowned before rubbing her chin then shook her head.

"No I don't think I do know where he's at. How did you get back to Underland? I thought he left for your world. Did he come back to our world?" The queen asked. Alice nodded her head before sighing.

"He brought Jabberwocky blood, we both drank it to arrive at his tea party and he hasn't returned… I fear he might be in Underland but not where he was supposed to be."

The queen nodded then ushered Alice to follow her. They arrived at a room which was completely white and had nothing but a mirror in it.

"It's a looking glass that will tell you where someone is unless they are in the otherworld," The queen stated. Alice looked to her then the mirror.

"Do I ask it where he is?"

"Yes you are the one searching for him," The queen replied. Alice nodded then walked over to the mirror.

"Mirror, will you please tell me where Tarrant Hightopp The Hatter is?" Alice asked. The mirror let out a soft grumbled before a face appeared upon the mirror.

"I will tell you where he is, but may I ask first who you are?" The looking glass asked.

"Oh, I'm Alice."

"The Alice of Underland?" The mirror asked.

"Yes I'm that one. Will you please show me where Tarrant Hightopp is please?" She asked.

"Well of course," He replied before showing Alice where the Hatter was.

He was climbing through tree branches of some forest and the hatter had torn his clothes and had scratch-marks all-over him.

"Where is he at?" Alice asked.

"Chessur forest," The mirror replied causing the queen to let out a gasp.

"No one should have been able to get in there except Chessur," The queen murmured then turned to head out of the room before getting stopped by a hand from Alice.

"He's in a forest scratching himself up and harming himself. We need to help him," Alice stated. The queen looked to her before shaking her head.

"I'm sorry Alice but I can't do that. That forest is a horrible place that, if determination isn't for the right reason it will kill someone except for the Cheshire cat himself," The queen stated. Alice let out a soft sigh before letting the queen's arm go.

"I'm going there and I'm going to rescue him I just need help finding the place," She stated. The queen nodded then called over a Kukaroo. The Kukaroo was an odd looking creature with the head of a dog, the wings of a bird, and it was only a 2 legged creature with dog like legs except it's feet which were birdlike.

The Kukaroo looked at Alice before bowing it's head.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Alice," The kukaroo responded in quite an odd sounding accent, almost a mix between scottish and French.

"A pleasure to meet you uhm, what's your name?" Alice asked.

"Oh my name is Irradant Skydriver," The Kukaroo responded. Alice nodded then gently petted the creature behind it's ears.

"You're an odd creature, I guess like most creatures here in Underland. You think you can take me to the forest where the hatter is so I can find him?" Alice asked. Irrandat nodded before allowing her onto its back. It ruffled its wings a bit before looking to the queen.

"I take it this is what you wanted me to do?" The Kukaroo asked looking at the white queen.

"Yes, please take her to find the hatter. Take her to Chessur forest," The queen responded. The Kukaroo nodded then took flight quickly. This was probably the fastest creature in Underland by flight and the most rockiest as well in flight. The Kukaroo did swift dips, swirves, and dives and things moved quickly past the creature. Once it reached the entrance of a forest it landed gracefully before it.

The Kukaroo laid down to allow Alice to get off.

"Alice this is Chessur forest but I do suggest you be careful on your treads here. This place is a dangerous place," Irradant stated before standing up and ruffling up it's own feathers. Alice nodded then looked at the forest wall before taking in a deep breath then making her way into the forest calling out for the hatter. At first the trees seemed like normal trees but when she got further in the trees seemed to try to grab out at her. She pulled away from the trees getting a few scratches here and there from the trees. She grumbled keeping her mind on finding Tarrant.

As she made her way over some tree branches she spotted a purple thing with red attached to it.

"Tarrant! Is that you!" She called out. The hatter looked in her direction with his eyes wide upon spotting her. There she was, on a tree and something was coming up behind her.

"Alice! Watch out! You're going to get hurt!" The hatter called out. Alice frowned before she felt a sharp pain in her back. She let out a gasp before looking at her back. There a snake had a grasp of her with its teeth sinking into her skin. She grabbed the snake quickly and threw it aside before climbing off the tree and made her way to the hatter in seconds before collapsing in front of him. The Hatter stared at in her shock for a second before picking her up and making his way quickly out of the forest, luckily having her footsteps she left behind to follow out.

Irradant was preening himself before the Hatter made his way out. The Kukaroo tilted his head before looking to Alice.

"What happened to her?" Irradant asked. Tarrant let out a sigh and shook his head.

"She got bit by a snake," He replied before looking to Irradant.

"We need to get her to the queen and quickly before the poison reaches her heart."

The Kukaroo nodded before bowing down to have Tarrant put Alice onto his back. Tarrant fastened her onto him before hopping onto the Kukaroo's back himself. Irradant quickly got himself into the air and flew quicker than before to arrive at the queen's Marmoreal. When they arrived The hatter hopped of the Kukaroo and nearly ran into the throne room of the Marmoreal.

"My queen, Alice has been poisoned, we need to get rid of the poison before it affects her like it did your sister years ago," Tarrant stated. The queen's eyes widened.

"Take her to the clinic room and we'll get working on her as soon as we can okay?" The queen asked as she made her way to where the Kukaroo was. The Kukaroo looked at the queen then laid down for easier access to get Alice off his back. The hatter had followed and he hastily unfastened her from the back of the bird like creature. He then handed her to the queen. The queen grabbed Alice and took her off to the clinic room then gently set the girl down on a bed in the room.

The queen then wandered off to her kitchen to make a potion that would hopefully stop the poison in its tracks. It took her maybe half an hour to complete the potion and then she headed down to the clinic room to give the potion to Alice.

Alice was still unconscious when the queen arrived and didn't look like she was getting any better. She actually looked far worse then when she had arrived. Her skin was paling, her eyes looked like someone had broken her nose causing them to become bruise, and to top that off what blush she had in her cheeks were leaving. She looked like she was dying. There the hatter sat near her bed with a grave look upon his face and his skin paler then normal. The queen looked to him then to Alice before shaking her head.

"This might work but there is something else that needs to be done Tarrant. She needs to know that no matter what there is still love out there for her and someone still cares for her," The queen stated. The hatter looked up at her then nodded.

"I'll love her no matter what Alice she is, no matter how much she'll change," Tarrant stated. The queen smiled softly before walking over and opening Alice's paled lips. She poured the potion into her mouth then forced her to swallow it.

"Now it's the waiting game," The queen murmured before leaving the room. The hatter shuddered at the thought.

"Please Alice, please be fine," he murmured softly as he gently rubbed her arm. He wanted to know what was going through her mind as he had heard her whimpering earlier and feared it might be the poison running through her system.