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"RED KNIGHTS!" Thackery cried. Tarrant started panicking, looking for pishsalver for them to drink. "Why do we need it?! They're not after us, they're after Alice!" Olivia said. "You haven't heard?" Tarrant asked, surprised. "Heard what?!" Ichigo asked, worried. "The Red Queen heard about you girls and how you'll be slaying the Jabberwocky, so she sent her knave and Red Knights out to hunt you down!" he said. Finally he found a bottle. "Drink this," he said. "No! It tastes disgusting!" Ichigo said. Me made her drink some of it, then Olivia, then Pash and Claire. "Stop it!!" Olivia said, while all of them were being shoved into a teapot. Olivia sighed. "Just like in the movie!" she thought to herself. "LET US OUT!!" Pash yelled. She kept banging on the teapot. "Pash, do you want Stayne to find us?!" Ichigo said. "...Good point."
"Greetings, gentlemen," Tarrant said. Stayne walked over to the table looking at them suspiciously. "Well, if it's not my favorite trio of lunatics," he said. "YOU'RE LATE FOR TEA!" Thackery said, throwing a teacup at him. He caught it and started to drink it. "How fares the Red Queen? Or is it White? Who IS sitting on the throne these days?" Tarrant asked. Stayne just ignored him. "We're looking for the girl called Olivia," Stayne said. "Her younger sister as well," he added. "Speaking of the Queen, here's a song I sang at her concert!" Tarrant said. Heed to sing Twinkle Twinkle.
Olivia was watching through the spout. "Olivia! Have you seen her?" "Why is he mostly after me?!" Olivia asked, confused. "How should we know?!" Pash asked in return. "Before we answer that, you'll have to answer our riddle," Tarrant said. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Thackery asked. "That's a good one. Answer that if you can," Tarrant said to Stayne. One of the Red Knights hit him. Stayne ignored the riddle. "Have you seen her?" he asked again. "Have you guessed the riddle?" Tarrant asked. The Red Knight hit him again. Tarrant laughed crazily to keep his anger under control. Thackery joined in with him.
He was getting very irritated. "If you are hiding her, you'll lose your heads," he said. "Already lost them...sing together now!" Tarrant said. He kept trying to change the subject. Stayne was now getting very frustrated. "Where is the girl Olivia?!" He demanded. They kept on singing, "twinkle, twinkle, twinkle!" Bayard was sniffing the table, getting closer and closer to the teapot the girls were in. Tarrant tried and finally got him away. "Follow the bloodhounds," Stayne told the knights. He lingered for a while and eyed Tarrant, Mally and Thackery suspiciously. "You're all...mad!" he said as he threw the teacup down on the table, shattering into pieces.
Tarrant opened the lid to the teapot. "You're all safe now. The bloodhound will lead them away." He helped them out of the teapot. "Thanks!" Olivia said. All four of them were in filthy clothes, so he made all of them dresses to wear. He gave Olivia a blue one, Ichigo a purple one, Pash a dark blue on and Claire a green one. "AWESOME!" Olivia said. She had her arm wrapped up in a blue material with purple stripes. She winced in pain again from moving her arm around too much. "We want to help, but we're just not cut out for slaying huge creatures!" Ichigo said.
Ignoring what she said, he lifted all of them up onto the palm of his hand. "You'll speak to Absolem." "Can he tell us how to get home?" Claire asked. "He's wise. He's absolute. He's Absolem," he said. He put them back down on the table. "Do you have anymore upelkuchen?" Olivia asked. "Do you have anymore, Thackery?" Tarrant asked. Thackery looked, then shook his head. "Sorry, no upelkuchen," Mally said. Tarrant took his hat off and set it on the table. "Your carriage, madamoiselles," he said. "AWESOME! We get to ride his HAT!" Ichigo said. "YAY!" Claire said.
"Anyone can travel by horse or rail. But only the best people travel by hat," he said. They climbed up to the top of his hat and sat down. He put it back on. "By the way, Thackery, how IS a raven like a writing desk?" "If you don't know, I'm not telling. Ta-ta, girls!" he said in response. Mally started to follow. "Sorry, Mallymkun. Just us this time. You know how Absolem can get," he said. She frowned. "Wait, you haven't had your tea!" Thackery said, picking up a teapot to throw. "Watch your heads," Tarrant warned. They all ducked.
They all kept walking in silence, when Claire randomly said, "so, your name is Tarrant Hightopp." "Yes, I was a hatter by trade in the White Queen's court until the Horunvendish day," he said. "Oh, I've heard this story! But I forgot it. Could you tell it to us?" Pash said. He looked at her oddly. "What happened on the Horunvendish day?" Ichigo asked. "White fell the Red. It was here in the Tulgey Wood. The mood was festive. The Queen was confident in her champion, but fear overcame him. He dropped the Vorpal Sword. I helped the Queen to safety and so I missed the most of it. The Red Knights captured the sword so there was nothing to stop the Jabberwocky. The massacre was so terrible, Thackery went mad at the sight of it. On that day, I swore I would not stop until the Red Queen falls."
They were quiet. "And what about the White Queen?" Ichigo asked. "She's in exile in Marmoreal, waiting for a champion to slay the Jabberwocky and return her crown. In the meanwhile, Thackery, Mallymkun and others like us work secretly for her cause," he answered. They passed out of the woods and came to an open plain of barren earth. "This used to be fertile fields, but nothing has grown in Ipalm since the Jabberwocky ruined the land," he said. "Where did everyone go?" Claire asked. "Many have been taken as slaves for the Queen's court. Others have fled to the Outlands. Only a few strays remain," he said.
"You're on your own from here," he said, putting his hat down. "Why?" Olivia asked. "Absolem can be temperamental. We'll wait here." Olivia and Ichigo walked into a misty field of mushrooms the size of trees. Then they heard the familiar voice, "who are you?" They all squinted, trying to look through the mist. "Absolem?" Olivia said. "Who ARE you?" "We're not who you think we are!" Ichigo said. "Who do I think you are?" he asked. "Absolem?" Olivia asked again. "I don't think you're Absolem, I think I'm Absolem. I think you're Olivia and you are Ichigo," he said. "Have we met before?" Olivia said. "Of course not," he said. He laughed again. "Stupid girl."
"I'm not stupid!" Olivia said, irritated. "Wow, you're just as impertinent as Alice was," Absolem said. "The Hatter said you could tell us how to get home," Ichigo said, changing the subject. "Quite simple. Do what you came here to do," he said. "Look, just because we're here doesn't mean we can just start slaying things! I couldn't slay a Jabberwocky if my life depended on it!" Olivia said. "It will. So I suggest you have the Vorpal Sword on hand when the Frabjous day arrives," he said. He then disappeared.
"Wow, I still can't believe we're in Underland!" Olivia said. Ichigo started to cry. "...What's wrong?" Olivia asked. "I DON'T WANNA SLAY THE JABBERWOCKY!!!" Ichigo said. "Oh, come on! Don't worry about that right now! If only there were two swords, then we could both do it together and get it done quicker," Olivia said. "But I don't wanna do it at all!!!" Ichigo said. "Well, don't think about it right now! Let's go back to Pash and Claire," Olivia said. They started to walk back out when they start to hear swords clashing. They got lost for a few minutes but found their way out, and then they saw Tarrant being tied up.
"Take him to Salazen Grum," Stayne said. Olivia and Ichigo saw Pash and Claire and ran to where they were standing and watched helplessly as they took him away. They saw his hat still laying on the ground, but they couldn't pick it up. Suddenly they heard a footfall behind them.
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