Call Me Chessii
xStarletx
A/N: Here we are chapter two. Not a lot of people interested. But my cousin is so I've written chapter two and now I'm posting it. I hope to have chapter 3 done soon and posted too, even if no one else likes it. Review if you do like it though, I'll feel more inclined to get the story out if I see some interest in it.
Chapter 2
"This is Chessii, she's basically harmless, she's just annoying." Hatter told Alice, he had moved away and put an arm around the catgirl. The girl beamed up brightly at him.
"Chessii is a good kitty, very pretty." The girl chimed.
"She likes to rhyme, and talk about herself in the third person." Hatter explained. Alice nodded.
"Chessii Rhyme, Chessi Talk, Chessii Run, and Chessii walk. Chessii hide, Chessii play, Chessii, Chessii, RUNS AWAY!" Chessii cried, she did a back walk over and vanished into thin air.
"Chessii is an illusionist. She can trick your eyes, and I don't know what that vanishing thing is about. I unno If that's illusions or camouflage." Hatter told her. Alice was wide eyed. That was the freakiest thing she had seen here.
"She's the one who let me out of the box." Alice cried, she had come to the sickening conclusion when she examined the tail. Surely not many people in this so called Wonderland had purple tails.
"Silly Oyster had no doubts, Silly Oyster wanted out, Oyster wouldn't listen at all, so Chessii let the Oyster fall!" She chimed out, this time Chessii reappeared on the back of the white sofa, crouching down like a cat ready to spring. Hatter swatted at her.
"Off the furniture!" He ordered. Chessii giggled and hopped off. Alice eyed her, then turned to Hatter.
"Do you think you can help me?" She asked. Chessii began humming to herself.
"Let's just put it this way, I know a few people who like to help, your kind." Hatter told her.
"Kind, Kind, read my mind! Never know what you will find!" Chessii sang. Hatter ignored her.
"I scratch their back…" He alluded.
"They scratch yours." Alice finished.
"Chessii wants a scratch, right behind the ears."
"And Hatter wants lots and lots of money!" Hatter cried. Chessii tilted her head to the side as if she didn't understand him at all. Hatter groaned.
"Scat Chessii, Hatter's tired of your games! Look you've got Hatter talking in third person again! You're so contagious!" Hatter cried! Alice giggled, so did Chessii.
"Chessii will go away, but one day you'll wish she stay!" Chessii warned and then vanished again. Hatter palmed his forhead.
"That girl gives Hatter a headache!" He cried. Alice giggled some more.
"So are you going to help Alice?"Alice asked. Then bit her tongue.
Damn, Chessii was contagious.
The Red Queen was FURIOUS. So furious the word was capitalized, bolded and underlined even in her head. Someone would lose their head today, she didn't care who, just someone!
She strode into the Throne room and found her simpering fool of a husband waiting for her, nervously cringing like the beaten down dog he was.
"My strawberry we found it! We've found the ring!" He told her. The Red Queen perked up almost immediately.
"My ring? You've found my ring! Give it to me!" She ordered. The man with the white rabbit on his lapel stepped up and handed her the box on a satin pillow. She snatched it immediately. She opened the hidden catch and frowned. Where these men idiots?
"Is this some kind of joke?" She snarled. Both men looked mystified. Stupid men, she had to do everything around here! She showed them the empty box. The White Rabbit man groaned.
"The oyster must have it." He whispered.
"Oyster? What oyster?"
"The oyster girl, she had the ring before, I thought it was still in the box."
"Where is she now?"
"Well you see, she escaped my queen."
"She… WHAT?" The Red Queen cried.
"Some of the boxes are old, I guess she just fell out. We have repairs set in the budget…" He trailed off. The Red Queen scowled.
"Some Oyster is wandering around Wonderland with my ring? Off with your HEAD!" She screamed. The suits dragged the pitiful old man away. She sat back in her red heart shaped throne.
"Did the Queen loose a ring? Who would have done such a silly thing?" A voice asked. The Red Queen recognized it immediately.
"Is that you Chessii? Where are you? Pretty Kitty, come to the Queen." The Red Queen called.
"Chessii wants to keep her head." The voice called.
"I won't take your head."
"Liar, Liar, Skirt on Fire!" The cat taunted. Everyone was looking around. Chessii could be invisible if she wanted to. The damn trickster was always so difficult. If she could the Red Queen would have that trouble making cat on a leash.
"Come on now Chessii, Come out and play." The Red Queen beseeched. She had moved away from her thrown now, last time Chessii came to visit she was up in the rafters. Maybe she was there again.
"You say that you want to play, I wouldn't believe you any day!" Chessii told her. The Red Queen whipped around, there Chessii was, upside down on the throne. Her long legs and purple boots up in the air, her purple tutu out at the sides, her long frizzy purple hair hanging down to the ground.
Several suits charged her, but she vanished quick as can be.
"Stop it! We need to sneak up on her!" The Red Queen reminded them.
"If you're not nice Chessii won't tell you what she knows." The cat sang out. She was up in the rafters again hanging upside down like a big purple bat. Her tail twitched back and forth.
"What do you know then? Maybe I'll give you a treat?"
"Chessii knows the one you seek, very brave not so meek, Very soon with depart, has stolen the heart of a Heart." Chessii riddled.
"Enough of your games!"
"Not nice, think twice!" Chessii called.
"SHOOT HER DOWN!" The Red Queen bellowed. The Suits obeyed, but they were shooting at thin air.
"You'll never find her that is true, I will never help you!" Chessii snarled, the voice hissed slightly, it sounded like she was right behind her, whispering into her ear, but when the Red Queen turned around no one was there.
The Red Queen sighed, that cat needed to be whipped leashed declawed and muzzled.
Alice kept looking behind her, no doubt checking to see if Chessii was following them. Hatter shook his head, if Chessii didn't want to be seen, she didn't want to be seen. There were no warning signs for that purple disaster, one second everything would be calm and peaceful the next everything would be upside down, chaotic and rhyming.
Why did she rhyme anyways? Did she sit at home thinking up of rhymes for hypothetical situations or did she think them up on the spot?
Why did everything have to be purple? And where did she go when she disappeared like that?
"So what's so important about this Shane guy?" Hatter asked. Alice had both her hands on the wall, true it was a narrow ledge to walk but she was still utterly terrified. Figures she'd have a thing for heights.
"Jack, His name is Jack Chase and I think I love him."
Hatter stopped in his tracks and turned around, he scoffed at her.
"I know about love, love turns to like, and like turns into 'what's his name again?'" Hatter snarled. Alice scowled and moved past him. Why was she leading she had no idea where they were going.
"It's not like that." Alice told him. Hatter would have liked to know how it wasn't. He quickly fell in step behind her.
"I'm sure it's not." He reassured her. She glowered at him. He moved to go past her, consequently trapping her against the wall and his frame. There was something about this girl, something that made him go a little loopy. He turned away from and pushed past her, consequently pushing his own desires out of the way.
What could he do for her? She wanted her boyfriend back from the Queen of Hearts. Not that that old cow would ever give him up, but hey why burst the pretty girls' bubble?
It wasn't long after that that they got to the right door. He knocked and a viewer slide open revealing a pair of wrinkled blue eyes.
"I'm here to return a library book, it's a work of Edwin and Moorcroft."
"How does the Crocodile improve its shining tail?" The raspy voice asked. Hatter rolled his eyes, honestly still? Come on, they knew by now to trust him.
"By pouring water from the Nile, on every golden scale." Hatter replied. He noticed Alice's strange look, for some reason he was embarrassed. The girls first trip to Wonderland and she had her boyfriend kidnapped, she got trapped in a box, fell a few hundred feet to the water below, was rhymed at by a strange vanishing cat, and was now stuck with him and the insane people he was handing her over to help her.
Quite the welcome mat Wonderland rolled out for this girl, compliments of the Queen of Hearts.
Hatter ushered her through the door to the elevator slash bus thing. The contraption whirled to life lowering them towards their destination. It made a series of lurches that startled his oyster companion but he gave her a nod of approval, he wasn't freaking out neither should she.
She was wearing one of his jackets, his purple one to be exact. It suited her. Since he met Chessii he hadn't worn the purple jacket, now with his oyster friend wearing the color he had a feeling she'd be exactly like the cat that came back, nothing but stinking trouble.
The bus came to a halt that nearly threw everyone on board onto the arses and then the doors flew open and the barrel a short shot gun was in their faces. Hatter was shocked, he could feel Alice's glare on his neck. There we the sound of a second gun clicking.
Turns out Eagle had a gun too.
"Come on now Owl, you know me well enough!" Hatter told her. The short lady glared at him.
"You keep that sledge hammer where I can see it!" She ordered as she ushered them out of the bus. Alice and he had their hands up.
"Did you not like the box of confects I gave you? Cause I can stop bring them." Hatter warned. Owl winced and lowered her weapon. He noticed that Alice was eyeing his left hand. No doubt wondering what he could do with it.
"I'm sorry we're all a bit jumpy." She apologized.
"You're always jumpy." Hatter snarled.
"Where's your little kitty friend? She's usually with you."
"Not today. I don't know where she went."
"What is this place? Who are they?" Alice asked, Owl was leading them to the leading man, Eagle was following behind. Alice was looking over the railing to the piles of books and groups of people.
"We're in the Great Library. These are the people who wouldn't stand for her regime. We try to keep them as well fed as possible, but it's hard. If the Queen of Hearts were to find this place she'd destroy it. Wisdom is her greatest enemy."
"Who's the Queen of Hearts?' Alice asked. Owl whirled around.
"She doesn't know the Queen? Who the hell is she Hatter?" Owl asked. The gun was in their faces again. Alice, Hatter, and even Eagle were backing up quickly.
Hatter sighed. Stupid purple jacket. Nothing but Trouble!