There I stood. Right where it had happened. Hatter had told me to jump across, but I was to frightened. Ches appeared on the other side of the hole. I could jump. I knew I could, but I was to shocked. I saw flashes of his face. Hatter told ches to carry me over the hole, and Ches did as he was told. I could feel the warmth coming from Ches's skin. The smell of vodka made its way into my nose. People believed that it was tea in there cups. Oh, but, it was everything but tea. I also remembered how auntie Red would take me to her castle when Hatter and the rest of them got a bit to tipsy. That's how I met him. He had been running around the castle when my aunt and his step mother had been talking about a piece treaty. We played so many fun games, talked, and danced. I knew from the moment I looked into his bright green eyes, that he was the one. When they were done talking about the piece treaty, they had to leave. Then aunt Red told me that it wasn't signed.

I started to notice my surroundings. There were tall, dead, black, flowers standing tall above us. There were three safe zones in Underland. The first was Queen Red's castle. Second was Queen White's castle. Third, was the Forest of Flowers. Colors bursted from the flowers and conversations never stopped, before. Now it was darker than ever, and there wasn't a single sound stirring amongst the darkness.

Ches looked down at me and smiled a wide grin. His blue eyes shimmered through the darkness and his dark purple hair hid his lighter purple ears. I missed my friends so much. I missed the way Ches and Hatter argued, but always made up later on, and how Dee and Dum disagreed on just about everything but in the end came up with a better solution. Then there were White and March; they almost never disagreed on anything, but if they did, leave them alone and wait for them to decide who was right. The most odd thing was that they were one of the maddest people in Underland but they were the most normal people I had ever met down here. Speeking of the two. "Where are White and March?" Ches set me down and we kept walking through the dead rotten flowers.

"There with Queen Red." He said as he took a dead flower pettal from the ground and smiled as it crumbled in his hands. "Do you remember when I first took you here?" His eyes gleamed k with happiness as I nodded, remembering that night. His hand was tight around mine as he drug me through the Forest of Flowers. The flowers were emanating a beautiful smell that filled the air. We lifted off the ground and into the sky onto a soft purple petal and watched the stars for hours until my aunt called for us.

I gave a laugh when I turned to see Dee and Dum panting as they carried Hatter. Both mouthed the words, help us! He's so heavy! Hatter looked at them then at me and gave a shrug. "What? I'm injured and tired." He said as he stood- both boys slumped in relief. All three of them jogged to me and looked up.

My mind filled with curiosity. Once I looked at what they were staring at, I knew why they were staring. "Were here." I said in an almost whispering voice. We were finally at my aunt's castle. It stood so high above the ground I felt a bit nauseous. Red and black covered all the walls and roofs making part of the castle look like it was surrounded by a heart. The path ahead of us started to clear out so we jogged for a little while until I felt as if my lungs were going to jump out of my throat and take a long nap. With a bit of rest we kept walking until we were about a mile away from our destination. The grey dirty ground started to turn to a white cleanly-ish stone. The sun started to go down and the two moons started to rise in the already stary sky. Nobody said a single thing as we made our way down the white road. In a way I kind of felt like Dorthy following the yellow brick road to the magician, but I was headed for one of the maddest people in Underland, my aunt Red.

A voice carried on the wind into my ears. "Find me Alice. Save me." I herd his voice crack through my skull like a razor blade. A small breeze blew by and ruffled my raven hair, but there was no little voice in it. Only dead silence to be herd. Tears fell down my face as I thought of him. I quickly made sure to wipe the tears away before any body noticed.

The castle grew closer and the night was dark. I could see people roaming about inside of the red gates. Beautiful dresses were worn and hair was pulled up into odd doos. A card guard stood at the gate with his sharp weapon ready to be used. "What are you here for?" He stated. All four boys were standing in front of me, like they were trying to protect me from danger. Dee reached back to me and took my hand pulling me in front of him. The gaurd gasped and started spewing apologies all over the place. Saying that he didn't know it was me and that he would have the gate opened as soon as possible. He ran to the front of the gate and was yelling at other guards to open the gate, that Alice is here.

Red gates opened and a horn was blown so loud that I had to cover my ears. People started taking to one another and trying to get close enough to examine me. So many voices were going off, I couldn't understand a single one. Someone reached out and grabbed my left wrist making me wince and hiss in pain. Hatter quickly removed the anonymous persons hand and we kept walking down the path till we reached the steps leading to the big red and black door. When we reached the top of the steps both doors busted open and a tall woman with blood red hair and a deep red dress that fit her slender body quite will, ran to me and basically tackled me in a hug. I had to pry her off so we could go in side.

"Alice, I can't believe your here!" She ran to the stares on the left side of the room and started walking up. "Come, Alice. Your room is this way. Boys I trust you can find your original rooms, yes?" She asked staring daggers at them. The four of them nodded and went to there rooms up the same stairs, but they were much quicker.

Once I caught up to Red half way up the stairs, she took my left hand in hers. "Alice, I'm so glad your here! Are you hungry? Dinner will be ready in an hour." She explained. "The fairies will run a nice hot bath for you, and when you are done there is a closet full of clothing that will suit to your taste." With that she took me up the stairs, still holding my hand, and took so many turns, I thought I would get lost on my way back. We stopped at a wooden door with the prettiest designes leading to the top where my name sat. "Here you are. I'll see you at dinner, oh, and Alice, don't mention the White Queen around the fairies, they don't like her." Then she disappeared around a corner.

I opened my door, stepped into my room and quickly shut it. A bed sat on the right side of the room with bright pink blankets and pillows. I almost threw up when I saw how much pink covered the bed. One bright green dresser stood agenst the wall straight ahead of me. What was with the bright colors?

Something flickered on the left side of the room. As I made my way, I noticed that there was a door barely cracked open. On the other side was at least ten to fifteen glowing sparkles flying across what looked like a humongous bathroom. A tub sat directly in the middle of the room with the toilet and sink off to the right of the room and a set of mirrors that went from the floor to the ceiling. The walls and roof were a light shade of tan and the floor was a dark wood. All the lights in the room stopped. Then they finished filling the tub and getting various sites ready for me. Once they were done they scattered out of the room, but I bought sight of one as it flew by. It's wings dripped with some sort of whit-ish goo and its whole body was nothing but a skeleton. Dark scary black eyes were buried deep inside there skulls.

Feeling like I had fought a thousand people and lost, I was glad to strip down and crawl into the steaming hot bath. My akes and bruises screamed at me when I let the hot water surround them. Everything in the world seemed to melt away when I lay back and closed my eyes.

His image flashed in front of me. "Alice! Alice, I need you to save me!" He called for me.