Authors note: Hey! I have a new favorite song! The name is "through the glass" by Stone Sour. I've always liked this song, but like I didn't know who it was by and yea. Anyways, enjoy this chapter!

Peace IN!

Melanie Swirls

Melicia in wonderland

Chapter 13: The cold shadow known as reality

I opened my door and say red – wait, are those red cards? – running around with these huge swords and axes. Why would cards ever need to use weapons? It seems to me they should only be used for solitary, crazy 8's, gold fish and a good game of poker.

I walked out into the hall and grabbed one by the arm. Yes, these cards have limbs. Can anyone say weird-ed out? "Don't talk to them. They work for the red queen. Run towards Hatter's bedroom instead." Mind instructed me, and I did as she said. Wait, since when do I talk to myself in third person?

I open Hatter's door and see that guy with the heart shape eye patch. The gut with eye patch was holding a golden glowing sword to his throat. My eyes widen and I run over and push that guy. I turn towards the Hatter, who no doubt is glad to be alive. I look at the guy, who was now pointing his glowing sword at me.

"What the hell? What do you got against me? I don't even know your frigging name and your trying to kill me?!" I scream this as he grabs his wrist. He pulled me off the ground and I let out a small "eek". "I'm the Knave of Hearts, but I wont be angry if you don't remember it because I'm going to kill you now." He raised his sword with his other hand and pointed it at me. He had an evil sneer on his face.

Everything happened so fast. I saw the Hatter run towards the Knave and attack him; therefore he dropped the sword and started to throw full-blown punches at each other. May I just say Ouch?

I pick the sword up and I see a bright light fill the room. My body starts to feel numb and my brain shuts off. I fall to the ground, but I don't feel it. I close my eyes and I find myself lost in the nothingness.

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M eyes fluttered open and I found myself in a place where there is nothing besides white and me.

Everything was white, but it was like it was all apart of the same white blur. I felt out of place because I was wearing pink.

I get up and the nothingness in front of me lights up before showing me what's going on with Hatter and Knave.

Hatter's fist made contact with the Knave's nose. Knave fell to the ground and the floor bellow his head had a small puddle of blood that had dripped down his faces on it.

Hatter looked around the room. Was he looking for something? I wouldn't ever know. He threw his hands up in exasperation and stormed out of the room furiously. The vision on the screen fallowed him though. He ran towards the thrown room where he found the white queen tied up in a corner. The red queen was sitting on the thrown. She has an unexplainable frown on her face. I wonder what got her upset…

"Down with the bloody big headed red queen!" He screamed in a thick angry Scottish accent as he threw the closest thing he could find, which just happened to be a chair at her.

I looked away from the screen. I didn't now Hatter could be that angry. Well, he is mad after all, perhaps I should have been expecting something like that.

I closed my eyes and tried to talk to my mind, HEY! Is anybody going to help me? Any ideas on how I can get out of this place? I thought the words as hard as I could. "Speak out loud what you really want. If he wants it to happen it will." She, or rather it, spoke back calmly. I opened my eyes and the room was completely engulfed in the nothingness. It seemed to be the empty void known as reality. It was filled with darkness and despair. It was rather depressing so I closed my eyes again and yelled, "I need to help Hatter!" I screamed. Nothing happened so I opened an eye and saw I was still in the room.

"That's not what you wish most. What do you wish most?" A deep voice boomed. I tried to figure out where it came from but I couldn't pinpoint the location because the voice seemed to bounce off the walls.

I took a deep breath and yelled, "I want to be with Hatter forever!" I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I was beside Hatter in the thrown room. The red queen was lying unconscious, but definitely alive, on the floor and Hatter had been running towards the White Queen until I showed up in his path.

"Melicia? How did you get there?" He asked in a very confused voice. I too, was very confused. I looked at the Queen all tied up and bent down beside her. I started to fiddle with the roped until she was loose. I un-gagged her mouth and turned to face the Hatter, "I might tell you sometime." I say simply as I shrug. I start to walk towards my room, each time I saw one of those guard guys, I slammed them against the walls. If they worked for the Red Queen, I was going to hate them, because that's something Alice wasn't doing at the moment.

And I'm nothing like her.

Authors note: If u check out my new fave song, you'll see where I got the ideas for this chapter! I would have made it lounger but I gotta eat!

Peace out!

Melanie Swirls!