Everyone wants to be the sun, and brighten up your life. But I'd rather be the moon that shines on you in your darkest hours.' -Unknown

Chapter 5: Snow, Ice Snarks and Hobby Horses Oh! My!

Darkness…that is all Alice saw. She tried blinking her eyes a few times and light followed by two big blurry figures appeared before her as her chest begin hurting.

"Caught me very own river nymph!" the first blurry figure said.

"Saints be praised, He works in mysterious ways, eh? Got plans for her?" the second blurry figure asked as Alice began coughing violently and sat up. Water began pouring out of her mouth and after that she stopped and took a breath.

"Take her over to the Mangled Mermaid, rent a bed" The first figure replied to the second.

"Hard to woo a girl amidst a brawl" The second figure replied to the first. Alice finally got a good look at them and realized they were fishermen. She glared angrily at them.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked.

"What comes natural like" The first one says.

"Not natural to me, get away!" Alice says pushing him away from her as she stands up. She then realizes she's at the end of a dock and begins walking forward toward shore, "Now where could Arthur have go-" she begins to say to herself as she notices Arthur as the beginning if the dock rubbing his head and looking confused, "Arthur!" Alice calls gaining his attention.

"Alice love there you are i've been looking all over for you" he says concern lacing his words.

"I was right here sorry for worrying you" Alice says.

"Its quite alright I-" Arthur says before noticing the two fishermen who pulled Alice out of the water still staring at her, "Love are you aware that those two men are staring at you?" Arthur asks.

"Ugh just ignore them…one of em tried to hit on me" Alice says disgusted as Arthur glares daggers at them angrily startling them both making them realize that Alice is off the market causing them to turn away, "Well come on" Alice says leading Arthur away from the dock and towards a warehouse. It is then that she notices a huge pile of fish.

"Don't they know that fish from this section of The Thames is toxic…I swear its like there trying to make the poor people go extinct" she spats annoyed as Arthur stares at the fish and shakes his head.

"I never knew it was this bad…I don't understand how it could have happened" Arthur says.

"Me neither" Alice replies as they continue walking. Alice then sees the white cat from before.

"That cat reminds of my snowball…Nanny knew her" Alice says to herself as she follows the cat into the warehouse followed by Arthur. Alice then notices numerous crates from other countries.

"These crates come from far away places I could only dream of going…this is as close as i'll ever get to exotic places" Alice says touching one of them as they make their way through the warehouse as Arthur takes note of what she said. After walking out of the warehouse they come across a bar with a mermaid corpse for a sign.

"The Mangled Mermaid?…they seriously chose to name it that?" Arthur asks confused.

"People can be idiots" Alice replies as she begins to walk around back.

"Love where are you going?" Arthur asks her.

"The entrance is blocked so we have to go around back" Alice says.

"But why would you want to go in there?" Arthur asks as Alice ignores him and continues on so he follows her, "This is a bad idea" he mutters to himself. As they walk down the alleyway they see a man dressed like a pimp in a fur coat and bowler hat and a large woman in a window on the second floor. She has fair skin, blonde hair and she wears a pink dress that accentuates her breasts and black lace gloves. She has a peacock feather placed on the bun of her hair and has a sailor's anchor tattooed onto her right breast. She also has a black eye.

"Where's my money you fucking spank bucket?" the woman yells.

"Get those fat arsed whores out on the street or I'll come up and brain you!" the man responds.

"Shut up you cocker-snipe, you'll never get past Long Tim" the woman responds.

"I'll get what you and your floozies owe me, Miss Ladybird. See if I don't!" the man replies turning and heading further down the alleyway.

"Maybe you noticed I'm not pissin' me drawers at the prospect!" the woman says before noticing Alice, "Ah, Alice Liddell! You'll make a nice change! Bring your disheveled self up here!" the woman says disappearing from the window.

"Love how does she know you?" Arthur asks.

"She was my nanny when I was little" Alice replies.

"Her?" Arthur asks surprised.

"She wasn't a hooker back then" Alice replies as they turn the corner and find a man dead in a pool of his own blood.

"Oh my god" Arthur says horrified.

"Tim always said he would die from a social disease…I bet he never thought it would be called Jack Splatter" Alice says nonchalant.

"Love we need to get this man some help" Arthur says still horrified.

"Arthur he's dead…there is nothing we can do about it but move on and forget" Alice says.

"Are you telling me you see this kind of thing allot?" Arthur asks.

"Death happens to us all…its better to just accept it then fear it" Alice replies stepping over the body and walking inside, "Coming?". Arthur still in a state of shock follows her. He had started to piece together that her life has been absolutely horrible since the last time they met if she's seeing death on a regular basis. As they made their way through the bar Arthur notices numerous drunks beating the shit out of each other and multiple prostitutes trying to flirt with anything that walks by them. One of them grabs Arthur's arm.

"Hello handsome interested in keeping me company tonight?" The prostitute asks him as Arthur gets a good look at her. She appears to be a skeleton with a layer of skin that appears to e falling off she's so thin. Alice then appears glaring angry daggers at the woman as she rips her arm off of Arthur's.

"He's not interested" Alice says as the woman glares at her.

"I think thats up to him to decide" The woman counters.

"I'm not interested" Arthur says flatly as the woman glares at him pissed off.

"Fine!…I hope you fuck your little whore to death!" The woman screams walking off.

"Hey you wait just one bloody minuet you-" Arthur begins angrily before Alice cuts him off.

"Let it go Arthur" she says dragging him up the stairs. They then walk into the first bedroom and find Jack Splatter hovering over Alice's former nanny whose cowering away from him.

"You don't give me what I want, I'll burn this dump of yours down to the ground!" Jack threatens her.

"Go away! She's done no harm!" Alice yells at him.

"She hurt me feelings" Jack replies knocking the lamp off the table starting a small fire and punching Alice in the face knocking her unconscious.

"You bloody mother fucker how dare you hit a woman" Arthur yells enraged punching Jack in the nose breaking it. Engaged Jack punches Arthur back even harder also knocking him unconscious. He falls on the floor next to Alice.

"Out like a snuffed candle, sleeps the sleep…" Alice remembers her sister saying.

"Help us, Alice!" Alice remembers her mother yelling.

"Fire, Alice!" Alice remembers her father screaming as her and Arthur are pulled back into Wonderland once more.

A new section of Wonderland appears. A frozen world where the moon always shines since the sun froze. The nighttime sky is bathed in stars and a green aurora which is being puffed out of the crescent moon's cigarette. We then see a falling star approaching the ice below. However upon closer examination we see thats its not a star but Alice and Arthur back in their classic Wonderland attire. They slow down upon reaching the ice and land their feet smoking once they touch the ice. Arthur looks around in amazement.

"Are we back in Wonderland?" he asks turning towards Alice.

"Yep welcome to Tundraful" Alice replies as she walks forward, "Come one we have to find The Mock Turtle…hopefully he can tell us something about this damn train".

"Lets go" Arthur says tearing his gaze away from the beauty around him towards the beauty in front of him. He stops realizing what he just thought to himself, "Did I just call her beautiful, well I mean she is but-" Arthur begins thinking to himself before Alice cuts off his thoughts.

"Come on Arthur we have to hurry" Alice says.

"R-right coming love" Arthur says following Alice. They then approach a chasm with freezing dark water floating in between.

"Looks like we have to jump across" Alice says as she grabs Arthur's hand jumping the chasm. Upon landing Arthur's sees something moving in the distance. It notices him and dives into the ice below.

"Love did you see that?" Arthur asks.

"See what?" Alice asks as Arthur begins to think he's seeing things.

"Never mind" he replies as they continue on. After walking a little further black ooze appears spawning two Insidious Ruin and a Menacing Ruin.

"Bloody hell more of these things!" Arthur states pulling out his Vorpal Blade.

"Welcome to my world" Alice replies pulling out her Vorpal Blade as they both charge the ruin. They each easily cut down an Insidious Ruin before Alice pulls out her umbrella deflecting the fireball The Menacing Ruin threw at them back at it which destroys its arms allowing them too attack its faces. They then charge at The Menacing Ruin tag-teaming it. They begin destroying its faces one by one until all three are gone and The Menacing Ruin disintegrates.

"God how many more of these bloody things will we have to fight?" Arthur asks out of breath.

"Tons" Alice replies annoyed as they continue on. As there walking they see a ship in a giant bottle in the distance, "Thats where were going" Alice replies.

"Look at that ship…its magnificent…I always wanted to go sailing" Arthur responds.

"Really?" Alice asks.

"Yes I used to read books when I was little about pirates sailing the seven seas and I always wished I could be one" Arthur responds.

"You wanted to be a pirate?" Alice asks.

"Why yes as a matter of fact, pirates don't take shit from anyone, they do what they want when they want and they live out on the ocean twenty-for seven and get to go anywhere they chose…its the ultimate form of freedom" Arthur says.

"There lucky…what I wouldn't do to be free like that" Alice replies as they continue onward pass a giant yeti blowing a stream of wind and various frozen animal carcasses.

"Bloody hell what happened to those poor creatures?" Arthur asks shocked.

"I think they competed in their caucus race a little too long" Alice replies, "And they said it would make someone dry, ha"

"Whats a caucus race?" Arthur asks.

"I have no fucking idea and they made me compete in one when I was seven" Alice replies as they continue onward. They then come upon a frozen room that resembles a chess board and in the center are two Hobby Horses. Alice walks over and grabs one as Arthur grabs the other. Just then they hear ice cracking and turn around coming face to face with a giant teal angler fish with magenta swirls and legs.

"What the bloody hell is that thing love?" Arthur asks creeped out.

"Fuck Ice Snarks, watch out they bite and hard to" Alice says taking her Hobby Horse and using it like a golf club smashing the Ice Snark and sending it flying. Arthur then takes his and bashes another which appeared out of nowhere. Alice and Arthur then pull out their Vorpal Blades and begin attacking the Ice Snark horde. Some of the Ice Snarks go under the ice which prompts Alice to smash the ice with the Hobby Horse making them jump back out allowing her to attack the Ice Snarks and kill them. After finishing off The Ice Snark horde they both then take a minuet to catch their breath.

"Bloody hell this is exhausting" Arthur says.

"Tell me about it…every time I come to Wonderland I end up in a bloody fucking fight" Alice says turning around, "Come on lets keep moving" she says as her and Arthur make their way forward. They then come upon a giant snail shell. Alice then approaches it confusing Arthur.

"Love aren't we supposed to go this way?" Arthur asks pointing to the right.

"We will but we have to go in here first" Alice says grabbing his hand and pulling him into the shell with her. They both then enter another part of Wonderland. Its a small pool of water that is coming from a giant crying Alice statue. It is also surrounded by tall trees and if you look through the leave you can see the nighttime sky which is filled with stars and a green aurora. There are also jacks, dominos and marbles floating in the air. The Cheshire Cat then appears.

Alice and Arthur here's a tiny little brain teaser for a tiny little-well you…How is The Queen of Hearts like a Typhoon?…A. They are both indiscriminately destructive, B. They are both powerful, C. both are cruel or D. In all ways but the Typhoon doesn't mean to be" The Cat asks them. Arthur and Alice then begins whispering their thoughts before Alice remembers something.

"D. In all ways but the Typhoon doesn't mean to be" Alice replies.

"You never cease to amaze me" The Cat says disappearing as a bottle of rose paint appears. Alice then walks over and collects it. The place there in then begins to fade causing them to shut their eyes. Upon opening they eyes they find that they are back in Tundraful. The opening to the snail shell is now blocked off.

"What just happened?" Arthur asked.

"We entered a Radula Room" Alice responds as she continues onward. Confused Arthur follows her. They then come across a bunch of frozen ice burgs leading to the ship in the bottle. They then notice a large creature underneath the frozen waters.

"What is that love?" Arthur asks slightly nervous.

"Ship Reck Sharks…try to avoid them" Alice says as they begin jumping from ice burg to ice burg finally reaching the ship in the bottle which they find a crack in and crawl through barley avoiding a Ship Reck Shark that tried to eat them.

"You better come aboard, Alice and friend. We're doomed of course" They hear a voice and turn seeing a creature with a cow's head on a turtle's body dressed up like a navy admiral.

"What, there's no hope then?" Alice asks.

"Oh, there's an infinite amount of hope, but none for us. Now, get up here!" The Mock Turtle responds as Alice and Arthur climb onto his ship as a Ship Reck Shark attacks the glass bottle.

"Confounded beasts, they want my ship!" The Mock Turtle exclaims.

"I think you're more to their tastes" Arthur responds.

"Never, we're almost relatives!" The Mock Turtle states.

"You're related to soup, Admiral" Alice states deadpan.

"I've an idea! We leave this mayhem and go to Carpenter's show! It's better than a gaff. Carpenter promises what we don't take seriously can't harm us!" The Mock Turtle says as the glass bottle breaks and the ship head towards a waterfall.

"Best dive now Admiral, or the sharks will have us for lunch. Ahhhhh!" Alice screams as they go over the waterfall towards the water below.

"Brace for impact!" Arthur yells wrapping his arms around Alice's waist and shielding her from the water below as they dive in. Upon resurfacing underwater Arthur quickly learns in Wonderland he can breath under water. They then see giant Ship Reck Sharks approaching them so Arthur and Alice begin using the cannons while The Mock Turtle tries to steer the ship however a rather large Ship Reck Shark bites the bottom of the ship causing it to hit a rock and head for the sea bed. Arthur once more grabs Alice and shields her from the impact as the ship crashes.

Well I hope you enjoyed chapter 5…chapter 6 is coming soon and i'm so exited i've been waiting to write this next one…get ready because were gonna finally get to see Pirate Iggy and Siren Alice…R&R and tell me what you think…have a great day:)