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Chapter 6: Kika Hightopp

A week after Melaina had made the discovery that Alice was not the one of the prophecy; she decided to send her adviser, right hand, and personal guard, Kika Hightopp, to Mirana's palace as a diplomatic plea to her cousin and as a spy.

Kika Hightopp was a pale petite woman with long curly red hair and the rare bright green eyes of the Hightopp clan; the green eyes only found amongst those of the Hightopp clan and were rare even amongst them, the green eyes that changed color with mood.

Kika stood in front of the palace of Marmoreal her heart shaped face contorted in a look of anger, Kika's eyes were still green, but had a tint of orange in them, and were glaring daggers at the bright white palace as if it had offended her in some way.

After a moment Kika drew herself up a little taller and walked right into the palace, not stopping until she reached the throne room.

Mirana was not surprised that her cousin had sent someone. She was surprised at who her cousin had sent. "Kika?"

After the red head had marched into the throne room where she was awaited her name had been said by only five people, the five people that she had been closest to before her home (and life) had been destroyed, Thackery the march hare, Mallymkun the dormouse, Chessur the Cheshire cat, Mirana the white queen, and Tarrant her cousin.

Kika pretended as if she had not heard and walked to stand before Mirana. Once there Kika looked her once friend in the eyes and said "Mirana of Marmoreal, I come with a message from the black queen, or as you call her, the black witch."

Mirana looked stung at the cold distance that had formed in Kika's eyes for her old friends. Mirana quickly recovered however and then said "what is the black witches' message?"

Kika closed her eyes and when she opened them her eyes were softer. "Melaina has asked me to beg you to not fight her on this; she has every right to the throne in Crims and she has no wish for blood to be shed to get that right given to her."

Mirana stiffened "Who exactly are you pleading for Kika? Her or me?"

Kika sighed and closed her eyes, "I plead for you to listen to reason-"

Mirana cut her off sharply "She wishes to destroy Underland Kika!"

Kika's eyes were open and were yellow showing that she was mad but in control of herself "How many are you willing condemn to death for an accusation you have no proof of?!"

Mirana did not respond and Kika sighed again her eyes once again bright green, "Mirana, please, listen to me as you once did, Melaina is willing to fight you for this but she does not have to if you are willing to give it to her. Mirana, are you so willing to believe that your own cousin is evil?"

Mirana stared into Kika's eyes and then said "I will protect Underland; it is my duty to do so whenever I feel that Underland is threatened."

Kika closed her eyes and then sighed "very well then."

Mirana said "Tarrant, please take our guest to a guest chambers. How long do you plan on staying Lady Kika?"

Kika looked into Mirana's eyes and said "for one week." Mirana nodded and Hatter stepped forward to lead the way Kika nodded to him and said "It is good to see you again cousin."

Hatter nodded and replied in a calm voice "I am glad to see you to, I wish that it were under better circumstances, however." he turned and lead the way to a door off to one side.

Kika followed her cousins' lead but on the way out Kika's eyes fell on a small blond girl of about 9. When her eyes met with the eyes of the young girl Kika gasped and took a step backwards. The girls eyes were as green as her own, as green as her cousins. The girls own eyes widened and she looked confused and then for a moment she seemed to understand something and her eyes relaxed.

Kika hurried after her cousin and once they were far enough away from the throne room where they wouldn't be over heard Kika said in a voice of cold dread, "She is yours isn't she, Melaina told me that Alice had a daughter, but she didn't say who the father was."

Hatter did not reply until they got to the room that would temporarily be Kika's. "Yes she is mine." His voice was cold as ice now

Kika leaned against the bed post to face Hatter and she saw that his eyes were yellow in color. "You are mad at me." She did not say it as a question.

Hatter's eyes darkened a little and he said in an angry but controlled voice "Why shouldn't I be angry? My own cousin has betrayed Underland"

Kika's own eyes turned yellow-orange then and she said in a warning voice "Watch what you say about me Tarrant, I'm not the one who is serving the woman that let our home get destroyed and ran away as our village burned."

Hatter's eyes softened a bit and he said in a gentler voice with gentle green eyes, "Do you really blame her for that day Kika? You used to be her adviser; you used to be her best friend."

Kika turned away and said in a shaky vulnerable voice "Tarrant, I lost half of myself that day. Thackery, Mallymkun, Chessur, Mirana, and yourself all got out alive and didn't lose your other half because none of you had found yours yet… Mathew was a big part of me and my life though, and when he died, a part of me died with him… I will never be able to forgive Mirana for running away that day, I will never forgive Mathew for agreeing to be her champion, and I will never forgive myself for living when he did not. I do still love all of you, that will never change Tarrant, but I don't believe that Mirana is capable of protecting Underland. Not when she refuses to harm any living creature."

Tarrant's eyes went a little blue to show sadness. "I cannot convince you?"

Kika shook her head slightly, "No Tarrant, nothing any of you say will convince me to go against what I believe. I don't want Mirana dead, I would do anything to avoid that… but if she continues to fight Melaina on this, I doubt that she will win."

The cousins locked eyes and came to a silent agreement that they wouldn't try to change the others opinion and that, if they both made it through the war, they would try to fix their broken friendship.

Macie glared at the blue floating cat when she, Mallymkun, and Chessur were out in the gardens later that night, then she glared at Mallymkun who was riding on her shoulder. "Both of you knew!" she accused still glaring at the dormouse.

"Knew what love?" Chessur asked disappearing a few feet in front of her and reappearing half a foot away from Macie's face, he had a huge grin on his own face.

Macie glared at the grinning cat. "You both knew that Hatter is my father!" Truthfully she was not mad because they had not told her; she was just upset that they figured it out before she did. She should have realized when she first saw Hatters eyes but she had dismissed it, but looking into the newcomers eyes she realized that she had the same eyes as both Hatter and his cousin.

Chessur's grin widened and Mallymkun smiled sheepishly.

Macie sighed "Well I feel like an idiot for not seeing it right away."

Both of her companions laughed and she glared at both of them to get them to shut up.

A few minutes later the three were sitting down under a willow tree and Macie was trying to figure out the riddle with their help. Suddenly Macie asked "Why is the queen so willing to believe that the witch wants to destroy Underland?"

Chessur looked into Macie's eyes and said "don't Macie; the black witch is evil… Kika is in pain and the witch used that pain to brainwash her. The witch knows that in reality she has no claim over the throne in Crims, but Kika…" Chessur eyes held a look of sadness

Mallymkun finished for Chessur "Kika lost her soul mate when her home got destroyed; I think all of us knew that she blamed the white queen for that day but none of us wanted to believe that she would turn on us."

Macie looked towards the setting sun and wondered what could have made the black witch so evil.

Melaina watched her cousin pace, deep in thought and she smiled cruelly before saying to the image of Mirana, "I promise you, cousin, that I will make you suffer for what you have done."

All right!! so thats another chapter done!! don't worry the next chapter will be up on saturday at the latest! i promise!!