Hello sorry for the later than usual update, I was flying home yesterday from my holiday and didn't get anything done. This is a very short chapter but from the next one things start to get interesting... i apologise for the slow start ;L but i promise things will speed up!

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CHAPTER THREE

Alice fell fast through the darkness she couldn't see a thing at first until she crashed into a table floating in the hole and the music started, a piano played by no one caused it, it was a jazzy melody just like in her dream except that it was distorted and the rhythm kept breaking and the keys were out of tune. She fell for what could have been hours or it could have been minutes, time meant nothing here. There were other phenomenons like floating clocks and pocket watches, there was even a bed as Alice flew by.

She landed hard and shattered a glass table before hitting the cold, tiled floor. Eventually, she stood up covered in cuts and bruises. The room was relatively small and as she looked around her she saw loads of doors of an all-assortment of sizes. She made her way slowly to one door on her left she twisted and pulled the knob but to no avail, it simply would not open. Alice tried as many doors as she could find but none would open and she fell onto the floor, sore and frustrated.

What was she to do stuck here like this? she wondered, looking anxiously around. Just as she was about to give in to the hysteria that had long since been trying to break through, she saw a glint of silver- it was a key! She ran towards it, picked it up from amidst the shattered glass and proceeded to try it on all of the doors but they all would not open and she fell onto the ground and began to cry. She cried because she was stuck here with no possible way out, she didn't know where she was and nor did anybody else.

''That's not going to help, you know.'' Purred a deep voice, startling Alice out of her misery. She looked around but could not find the voices source and in confusion she asked: ''where are you?'' and a large grey cat with purple stripes and bright eyes which matched his striped and gave him a rather alarming appearance materialised into the room ''isn't that the wrong question?'' it asked lazily, ''I know where I am but had I answered your question you would still not know where I was because you do not know where you are.'' Alice was annoyed by this and said '' I simply wanted to see you!'' His face bore a painfully huge grin and he looked at his nails as he said, ''I know, a great many people do.'' Alice was getting more infuriated by the second and seeing this, the large cat asked, ''Are you going to ask me the right question now?'' he rolled onto his back in mid-air and waited and she gritted her teeth and said, ''Please help me...''to which he replied, ''why of course, my dear, what do you need help with?''
''Isn't it obvious?'' ''no.'' He grinned and exasperated with the annoying creature who seemed to need exact details and answers for everything Alice said, ''I'm lost, I'm in pain, I can't get out of here I don't know where I am or even if I'm awake because everything here is impossible and none of this can be real, so if you please mister cat it is my dream and you will help me. Please'' she added on the last word because she felt slightly childish after the outburst. '' if this is a dream then why don't you wake up'' he asked. Alice closed her eyes and willed herself to wake up but when she opened her eyes nothing had changed. ''I can't'' she said bitterly. ''ah'' sighed the cat, ''what is your name?'' he changed the subject. ''Alice, and yours?'' ''Alice... how interesting'' he mused.'' I have a great many, but you may call me chess.'' Replied the cat. ''ok.'' Alice said ''Chess can you help me?'' '' wrong again!'' he said gleefully '' It is not a question of whether I can, but whether I will.'' ''fine. Will you help me.'' Alice said through gritted teeth. ''why of course'' replied chess grabbing her hand and pulling her through the air. ''whaa-'' was all Alice managed to say before they disappeared from the room.

Alice felt like she was going to suffocate before she landed hard in front of a large banquet table. It was all she could do not to be sick. The cat appeared next to her and chuckled at her on the ground. She glared at him before standing and dusting herself off. She pointed an accusing finger at him just as he said ''good-bye'' and he disappeared leaving only a trace of his grin behind.

Alice sighed in frustration and thought '' I'm going mad!'' another bodiless voice said ''Aren't we all?'' sounding amused (it was chess) '' that's why you're here after all...'' Alice was about to call chess back when something flew through the air and cracked on her head. She knew no more...

Alice is back in wonderland ! so now that shes finally here the chapters are going to be longer and the story will move faster i know this chapter is short , sorrrry but i promise to compensate you with longer chapters in future and the next chapter should be up tomorrow i just love a cliffy please r&r pleeeeeaaaaaasssssse! Thx

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