CH9

Marmoreal

"What do you think Chessur?" The white queen sat in front of her mirror. In the mirror was the older Lily performing with her band. She was singing and dancing and looked rather happy.

"She is really good, though one of Hatter's hats would do nicely on her head." His witty grin caused the queen to giggle.

"Well, she certainly is very beautiful and her voice is" The mirror zoomed in on Lily's solo. Mirana couldn't help the tears beginning to fall. Chessur put his paw on the queen's shoulder for comfort.

"I wonder if she still eats that fruit."

She turned to him "Oh, she does, after every show she goes to a snack table and grabs some cherries." She elegantly smiled then turned back to her mirror. "How I wish Nivin's were here to bring Lily home." Chussur watched the doleful queen then left.

Chessur continued down the long corridors. He Turned and darkly smiled at the guards. They didn't think much of it for they knew Chussur was a creepy cat. His travel led him outside. The smug cat was about to head out of the kingdom and soon was stopped.

"Hello there Chessur, done visiting the queen already? I was just about to have a tea party. You can come." The tall man with orange haired man with a tall top hat offered.

"I can't for you see, Hatter, I am rather busy with other things." The Hatter came down to the cat's level on the ground.

"What kind of things." His eyes surrounded by eye liner narrowed at the cat. "Since when do you not float around and take my hat?"

The cat hesitated then grinned a grimacing smile "I find on the ground keeps me from being a target, as for the hat, I have grown quite old of it and do not whish to mess with it."

The Hatter became furious with rage "My hats are perfect, as for you you guddler's scitish pilgar-licking, shukm-juggling sluking urpal!" Out of the corner of his eye he saw the guards staring at him. He cleared his throat and whispered in the cat's ear "I'm watching you." then stormed off patting his hat on his head.

The cat slithered along the ground to the forest. He found his way up behind a tree. The thought of something in the bushes did not appeal to the cat. He stood op right on his two back legs. The fur along his body began to whither away and in its place came slimy scales. The ears deteriorated while two curved horns appeared. The once furry gray cat was now a devilish creature. It let out a growl and headed to the Red Queen's castle. The bushes rustled and a low growl sounded through the air carried by the wind.

Lily

"Goodnight London! Drive safe!" James shouted out to the crowd as we said goodbye. We headed off stage to be bombarded by water balloons from our team.

"Hey I just got this out fit!" Crystal shouted and used Tiffany as a body guard. "Tiffany spread out your arms it will keep me dryer!" She yelled.

"Crystal, ouch, a little softer on the throws please, being held captive over here!" Tiffany was trying to hide herself with what little she had of Crystal not holding onto.

I had just dodged a balloon when I noticed the boys weren't here. "Hey where are the guys?" I turned around and felt water being squirted at my face.

"Here! Sorry Lily, but you know how guys are with water guns." Sam Smirked.

"Oh I understand completely, I just hope you understand that now this is war of the wits, and dare I say, I am a pro at pranks." A mischievous grin crossed my face. The girls and I giggled at their expressionless faces, but there eyes were looking past us. I followed their gaze to a dripping wet Sarah.

"In my office now." Her voice was low and cold. We did as she instructed.

We waited in her office for about 20 minutes. Crystal was pouting over her new outfit, Tiffany was using paper towels to try and absorb the extra water, Sam and Brandon were playing rock paper scissors, while James walked around the room dripping all over the place and I just sat there watching everyone and keeping track of the rock paper scissors game.

"Hey you cheated!" Brandon stood up.

"Chill out just cuz your bad at this games doesn't mean you have to take it out on me." He leaned back in his chair.

"Yes, its rock paper scissors shoot not" he started with a dumb low voice "'rock paper scissors shoot oh let me see what the other guy doing first then shoot'." I couldn't help but laugh and neither could Sam.

We heard the knob flick and saw a now dry Sarah, her arms sternly crossed tapping her foot. "Well?"

The girls and I started first with pointing figures "The boys did it."

"Well then girls, go dry off while I talk to the boys. Sometimes I feel like I'm your mother." She sighed. I came and hugged her, my clothes dripping wet.

"We like to think so." I smiled and saw her with a comforting grin. She hugged me back and I left her wet again.

After James and I had met Crystal, Tiffany, Brandon and Sam in a foster home we realized we enjoyed music so we decided to come up with a band. We use to sneak out at night to clubs and play. Eventually we were invited multiple times and we had to come up with a schedule. Anyways after a show Sarah came up to me. She complimented the band and offered us a job if our parents agreed. She asked where my mom was and I ended up bolting out the door. She followed me and put her arms around me. Instead of saying anything, all she did was comfort me. She didn't even make us start right away. She became a legal guardian to us and bought us new clothes and we actually got to bond for almost a year before we started the celebrity stuff.

While I was in my train of thought, I felt an elbow in my side. "So what do you think Sarah will do to them?" Tiffany started.

"Doesn't really matter" Crystal shrugged "They need to plan out their little attacks before they charge. You need time, place, and a plan. Otherwise they will end up like Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn" She looked over to see Tiffany and me starring at her wide-eyed. "What? History101"

"Tiffany you ok?" I shoved her.

She still had bug-eyes "I thought I was the smart one." We all shared a laugh and split.

"Alright here's my room" I grabbed the knob. They waved and headed to theirs.

The door creaked as I opened it and then I flipped on the light. I let out a quick scream.

"Shhhh!" The rabbit jumped to cover my mouth.

"I thought I saw you, w-with a horn." My words stuttered.

"No sorry I was playing with some uh-" he looked around for a sec "Well it doesn't matter what it was. So you ready to go?" He began to tug at my arm towards the door. "You are a little wet, but this will have to do."

I pulled my arm back "I can't leave them, I wont." I crossed my arms. "Uh Nivins" He started to crunch his fists and his eyes were turning red, then as fast as it happened, it was gone.

"Very well, goodbye Lily." and just like that, he was gone. I looked around for something that could have looked like a horn but couldn't seem to find anything. Either way, it felt wrong to leave the ones that have been in my life for so long, I was being torn between my real family and my new family.

Nivins

The rabbit creature crawled down to the sewers. It snarled and growled as it went and soon became its true from as the devilish creature. It saw a stream of light coming from above. The creature climbed up and saw bright lights with rushing feet and moving vehicles. There was an opening leading across the street, so the creature bolted across listening and snarling at those who screamed. Down to the woods it went to a large tree. Sniffing around it found a hole. Through the hole it slithered and out it came into Underland. It let out a devilish screech and headed towards the Red queens castle.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN LILY WOULDN'T COME!" The Red Queen screamed at the top of her lungs. The creature snarled and hissed.

"She won't leave her friends." It showed its pointy yellow teeth.

The Queen's face settled down back to its normal whiter color with blue eye liner. "Well then, I guess we will just have to get rid of them." Her glazed face bored into the creatures. The creature shuddered and left.