Finding Alice

by starfallimagination

Alice is a 14 year old girl who lives with her parents and older brother in a dull and ordinary life. Until one night a strange cat leads her outside into the forest behind her house and spooks her into falling down a hole. Alice wakes up in what she thinks is Wonderland but this wonderland is much more dangerous, and nothing like the stories she's read in a book.

14. Chapter 6 The Heroes of Wonderland

Chapter 6: The Heroes of Wonderland

As they flew high above the house of cards Cheshire was extremely cautious keeping out an eye for any sign of his sister. He knew she was very close but he did not know exactly where she would strike from or how. As they flew closer to the castle Cheshire began to lose altitude gradually to come closer to the castle, when Hatter spotted the twins standing in the courtyard starring up at them; at him.

Hatter called out to everyone and pointed them out as Cheshire stopped where he was and looked as well. "Something is very wrong." Cheshire said.

"The queen is anticipating us, that is why she sent these two out to the courtyard to lure Hatter too them and away from her." White said.

Hatter chuckled a little and said, "Well then Cheshire guess great minds think alike. We should stick to the same tactic; if the queen is ready for us she should be where you expect her White. Anyways looks like I am up."

Hatter went to jump off Hatters back when Alice stopped him saying, "Wait" and grabbing his arm. He looked back to her and she leaned close to him and pressed her lips against his. The two held the kiss for a long moment when they finally separated and Alice said, "Good luck."

Hatter was dazed for a moment longer after the kiss when he finally snapped out of it and said, "Oh yeah I am so coming back for more of those." Then he smiled and leaped off Cheshire's back. Alice struggled to stop herself from leaping after Hatter as Cheshire moved on immediately, moving with great speed.

As they approach the castle and hover over the wall where the throne room is behind a creature that looks almost exactly like Cheshire in his current form but more slender and blue appears above them. "Hello brother, I have been waiting for you and so has the queen." Said the creature in a soothing beautiful female voice. "She is up the stairs at the top of the tower with my favorite chew toy. Why don't you hurry up and throw your friends inside so you and I can play." Then the other Jabberwocky, Emurla Cheshire's sister laughed a cold disturbingly maniacal laugh.

Cheshire hissed at her then turned back to face the wall, opened his mouth and blasted purple lightning out from it exploding the wall and revealing the throne room behind lots of dust. Cheshire then grew two arms from his sides and grabbed White and Alice and put them into the throne room then with one strong flap of his wings elevated away from the castle leaving Alice and White on their own. Alice and White looked around the throne room and saw that it was mostly empty aside from some card soldiers who were still in shock of the wall being blown open, to notice them.

Alice and White took advantage of the card soldier's momentary surprise and charged at them pulling out their swords. White and Alice cut down four of the nine cards before the others even began to defend themselves. White swiftly broke through their defenses and cut down all but two, which Alice was engaged in. The card soldiers had higher numbers and wielded broad swords but Alice was much quicker then them and waited for them to attack her first so she could dodge or deflect their attacks and come in for a quick slice or stab.

Alice felt bad for the soldiers even though they were being controlled she did not want to kill them, but she did what she had to and decapitated one of the card soldiers while White stabbed the other through the chest before she could even get to it. The card soldier dropped its weapon and fell to the ground dead. "Alice I know your holding back on them because you feel guilty over killing them but take a closer look" White said as he pointed to the dead soldiers.

Alice looked at them and when she didn't see what White was trying to tell her he picked up the helmet of the decapitated card soldier and tossed to her. She caught it with her arms but looked away for fear of what she would find inside. Then White gestured for her to look into the helmet. She sighed and did so, and to her surprise and shock the helmet was completely empty, no severed head no nothing.

"The Jabberwockies magic has transformed them so much that their nothing more than suits of armor, completely obedient to the queen. When you cut through their armor the magic leaks out and they start to simply die there is nothing really there to kill." White said.

"So then what about them?" Alice asked gesturing behind White.

White turned around and saw seven Jack of hearts emerging from the stairs that led up to the tower. They all looked much more human then the card soldiers and had a large black J painted on their chests. One wielded a rapier, another wielded two short swords, two of them wielded one long sword each, and the last three wielded what appeared to be double edged crusader type swords.

"It is best not to think about what they are and instead focus on them entirely, they are the strongest cards in the entire kingdom and fighting seven at once will be a challenge possibly harder than the queen of hearts herself." White said.

Alice and White then took their fighting stances as the Jack's approached them.

Hatter transformed into his Paladin form the moment he was off Cheshire's back, and when he landed in the center of the courtyard he made a small crater sending dust and small rock chunks all around. The dust blocked most of his vision for a moment but Hatter could see the twins eagerly awaiting him, so he stepped out of the crater and started walking towards them. As the dust cleared Hatter could see dozens of card soldiers coming out of the castle and into the courtyard completely surrounding him like the first time he was there.

Though the twins would most likely not allow any of the cards to interfere with their battle, Hatter knew after he defeated the twins he would still have to deal with them. Hatters gaze returned to the twins as the bowed to him and then launched after him. Hatter was expecting their attack and easily dodged around them, sweeping one to his feet and elbowing the other in the back of his head.

The twin Hatter elbowed stumbled forward a bit as Hatter jumped off the ground and drop kicked the twin's back sending him hurtling to the ground. Hatter landed on hic back and quickly jumped to his feet as the other twin jabbed his right fist at him. Hatter threw up his arms in front of him like a cross and blocked the attack but the force was so tremendous that it pushed him back a few feet.

As Hatter recovered the other twin came at him leaping up into the air to kick him. Hatter was much faster and leaped higher into the air and counter attacked him with a kick of his own. The kick landed on the twin's chest sending him back down, and Hatter landed with a roll. Hatter worked against momentum from his roll in order to leap back up in the direction of the other twin that punched him and flip through the air kicking him in the head. Hatter landed back on his feet with his knees bent and his back turned away from his enemies.

When he turned around he saw the twins already standing back up from his attacks wiping some dust off themselves as if it were nothing. If Hatter did any real damage it was not visible, and Cheshire was right this was going to be one incredibly tough battle. Hatters only hope would be his original tactic of holding them off until they were too weak to maintain their form and then finish them off; he also noticed that they were much slower than Cheshire was when impersonating them for training, just as strong but their team work was even more cunning than Cheshire. Then Hatter smiled and thought to himself, he might just survive this yet.

As soon as White and Alice were safely in the castles throne room, Cheshire flapped his wings as hard as he could and pushed himself up and away from them, trying to lure his sister away from his friends. He flew towards the mountains letting his sister chase after him, she took the bait and followed him. Cheshire made good distance from the castle but not to the mountains as he intended before his sister launched a bolt of blue lightning at his head.

Cheshire barley stopped in time for the bolt to go past his head and scorch the ground below him; it was a warning shot. Cheshire turned around to counter attack but as soon as he did he was tackled by his sister and both of them began plummeting towards the ground. As they were locked together fighting neither of them had enough time to pull out of their entanglement and hit the ground in an almost straight drop down. They rolled away from each other a bit then recovered at the same time and simultaneously fired out blasts of lightning from their mouths.

The two attacks collided with each other in mid air and exploded in a dazzling array of purple, blue, and green colors. Then Cheshire and Emurla transformed into four legged behemoths with a large horn on their forehead's and charged at each other. Their head bashed against one another and Emurla said, "Why brother, Why do you side yourself with the denizens of Wonderland and one a White knight to boot!"

"I could ask you the very same thing." Cheshire said. "Why did you become the queen of hearts pet?"

"Was it not obvious all those years ago? I came to her so she could aid me in the total destruction of the White knights; the people who destroyed our entire race, leaving us the last of our kind. With my Magic and her army combined we bred a new race of pure soldiers dedicated only to following orders. Their only purpose was to destroy our enemies."

"But you did not stop there, your army was then used to enslave all the free people of Wonderland or slaughter the innocents who simply chose not to fall under the queen's tyranny. You ask why I side with them it is because they deserve freedom and the chance at a better life, the same opportunity that was given to me by a White knight; the so called enemy we believed sworn to kill all Jabberwocky. I do not approve of the white knights decision in nearly making us extinct but I do know they did it out of preservation not only for themselves but for the whole of Wonderland itself."

Cheshire pushed Emurla back a few yards from him and started slowly stepping away from. "I did not see it at the time either sister but the magic of our people was destroying this world slowly, that is why it's a barren wasteland now, not because of the queen or the white knights but because of us. Join me sister together we can search for new lands discover new worlds and find places where our magic is not harmful to the environments."

Cheshire held out his right hoof and gestured for his sister to take it. Emurla started breathing more calmly now as she looked at her brother than down to his extended hoof. For a moment her eyes went sad and she was going to take his hoof when something in her made changer her mind at the last second as she said, "That sounds wonderful, but first I am going to kill that white Paladin of yours."

Then before Cheshire could react Emurla spun around and smacked Cheshire in the head with a spiky ended tail that she must have quietly grown while Cheshire was talking. Cheshire staggered backwards for a few steps growled at her and said, "You leave me no choice then. No one will ever hurt my friends again" Then Cheshire lunged at Emurla with immense ferocity.

Alice and White stood over the defeated soldiers breathing heavily. Their armor protected them from most of the attacks and they only got a few cuts on them but hey were still tired from the battle and had to rest. They waited around half an hour until finally they proceeded up the stairs heading for the tower where Emurla said the queen was waiting for them.

As they arrived at the top of the massive stair case into a circular tower room that over looked the kingdom White and Alice saw the queen fully cloaked in glistening red armor, with something by her side and the last two Jack of hearts wielding sabers standing between them and the queen. "Now, now you two step aside so our guests can see what happens to traitors in my kingdom."

The Jack's moved apart enough for Alice and White to see that the thing next to her was actually March Hair. He was beaten, bloody, and missing several patches of his fur. The queen held him by the back of his shirt. Alice struggled with rage and sorrow at the sight.

"I captured him with some of my dodo birds and realized as soon as I saw there was only him that he was a decoy." The queen said. "He gave me quite the chase though I will admit, but when the game was over I brought him back here and tortured him. He was not as fun as I hoped, never gave up anything about any of you, not even your names, so I grew bored and gave him to Emurla as a toy."

White gritted his teeth struggling not to run straight at the queen and shut her up. He knew that's what she was doing was baiting him but he could barley contain himself. "Honestly White Rabbit, out of all the people in my kingdom to betray me I never thought it would be you. You were such a good worker, always on time, always at my side when I needed you. It's going to be hard finding help as good as you were but I will have to make due."

Then without warning of any kind the queen lifted March up into the air and threw him off the tower balcony. Alice shrieked with fear and surprise and White leaped into immediate action, lunging right past the Jack's before they could even blink. He moved so swiftly that even the queen was caught off guard and stumbled back as White rushed to save his brother. He got to the edge of the balcony and threw his arm out dropping his sword on the ground to catch his brother.

White leaned half way over the edge as his paw came just out of reach of his unconscious brother. White missed him by less than an inch and screamed as he watched his brother helplessly fall to his death.

Alice saw the queen positioning herself to stab White and she shouted to him, "White behind you!"

White turned around swiftly as he could; being brought back to the present danger by Alice's warning. He was quick enough to move mostly out of the way of the queen's attack but was still caught in his left shoulder with her blade. The pain forced him to let go of his second sword as it cluttered to the ground and the queen pulled her blade out from his shoulder.

Alice went to help White out but was immediately blocked off by the two remaining Jack's. Alice brought up her sword to block the first incoming attack but was so distracted with White that she didn't move fast enough to guard the second one form the other Jack. Its saber sword hit her hard in the shoulder but could not penetrate her magically reinforced armor; still the impact of it bruised her a bit. She took a couple steps back and put herself into a defensive position to fight off the guards before she could help White.

White struggled to keep up with the queen as he was on the defensive entirely; a position he could not stand for long, especially without his second sword. His training with Alice helped him strengthen his defenses much more but he knew he would make another big slip up soon. Fortunately for the queen made the first mistake due to over confidence; for just a brief moment on her aggressive attacks she moved her blade to far away form the front of her body and White used the small opening to swiftly kick her in the chest. She staggered back a couple steps but quickly regained herself and the two changed fighting styles into more of a fencing type.

The queen would lunge forward and white would step back and deflect the blade, then he would counter with a swing. The queen dodged it and tried with a swing of her own but White guarded against it, and as soon as she put her free hand on the handle of her blade to add more pressure to there stand off White released his guard and stepped aside swiftly. The queen almost fell on her face and if White was able to use his left arm and other sword he would have had the opportunity to kill her; instead he was forced to dance around to her side and leap backwards and buy himself more time.

White turned to his side with his good arm and sword facing the queen as she recovered from her mistake and was now facing him in parallel position. The queen was caught partially off guard by Whites mastery of the sword arts but as she raised her sword above her head pointing it at white, holding it now with both hands like it was meant to be, he knew that she was now completely serious and focused on defeating him. Now that the queen wasn't holding anything back White knew that he couldn't defeat her anymore; he had the element of surprise at first which kept him alive and gave him a fair chance even one on one but he messed up before the fight even began.

White took a quick glance back at Alice who was still struggling with the Jack's, he knew with this armor and weapons she could defeat them but she would not make it time to help White kill the queen. White sighed and thought about a last resort strategy that he hoped it would never come too, and then he put his attention back to the queen and leaped forwards at her with great speed his sword held high above his head.

The queen was ready for the attack but White was so fast that she had to block his sword and could not take advantage of the opening he created. Their swords danced around as small brilliant sparks flew off every time they clashed blades. Despite Whites immense speed the queen was able to block or deflect every incoming attack from him, and she constantly exploited his small openings making them grow until she could get in a decent enough attack to cut him. As the fight progressed White was slowing down and the queen knew it was because of his blood loss, she kept her guard up though not taking chances with him as she thought to herself that White Rabbit was much better swordsman than he believed, if he had both his arms to use freely they would be evenly matched and his partner would tip the balance in his favor.

Alice struggled with the Jack's; she could have defeated one of them without too much trouble but against two she was facing them at different sides and always had to focus on making sure one of them could not get behind her. With her training against White Rabbit it was mostly straight forward, he was much faster and better skilled but there was only one of him so even if he danced around her could quickly turn to face him and not worry about leaving her back open. White trained her well but he did not have enough time to train her against fighting multiple enemies and she still was only about half way to becoming a sword master unlike her opponents who were incredibly skilled.

The only thing that kept Alice from dying was her armor, the Jacks were strong but their blades would never penetrate her armor, but that did not stop them form cutting her a couple times where her armor was not protecting her; like her cheek. Alice got in some good attacks on them too she cut off the wrist of one of them which a red smoke came out from it and managed to get several cuts all over different parts of them which produced some red smoke as well but it seemed to be doing nothing against them. Alice needed a lethal blow against these guys in order to defeat them, she knew could do it but as she glanced over at White who was not doing so well and had several cuts on his armor she knew she didn't have much time before he would go down.

White struggled to fight the queen he was moving almost half his greatest speed and Alice was still struggling with the Jacks. He knew that soon enough he wouldn't have the energy to pull off his fail safe move. White would have to create an opening for Alice to exploit very soon and hope that she caught onto his idea and would ignore the Jacks long enough to slay the queen.

White danced around the queen enough to past her and glance at Alice to find out which way she was facing. Then he lured the queen and himself in a position where Alice would be able to see the two of them through the Jacks. When he was in position he used the last of his energy deflect the queen's sword attack and forced her to swing her arm around in timing with him to deflect next attack.

As soon as the queen deflected the first attack from White she swung her arm around again and started looping their blades around swiftly until the tip of her sword was at the edge of White's sword handle where she locked it in there and flung the blade from Whites hand. The blade went flying across the room but the queen knew that White would be able to leap across and grab it in a flash so instead of giving him the opportunity she swiftly pulled her blade back then jabbed it straight through his armor and into his stomach.

The queen pushed the blade halfway through then to her surprise White grabbed her by the wrist and pulled the blade all the way through and leaned close to her face starring into her eyes. White had the look of final victory in him as he fell to his knees. The queen tried pulling the blade out of White but he held her hand in place. She tried a second time but still nothing. The third and final time she yanked it free of Whites grip as Alice came up from behind White and stabbed the queen in the chest. Her blade pierced the armor and went right through her heart.

Hatter danced around the twins dodging or deflecting all of their attacks. He made sure to throw in some good attacks when the opportunities presented themselves so the twins wouldn't catch on to his plan. For some time things were going good for Hatters battle until he heard a scream that sounded like Alice coming from one of the towers in the castle. He looked over to see a figure falling down from it; and even from the great distance Hatter could see it was March Hair.

The twins took advantage of Hatters distraction as one of them jumped in the air, spun around and kicked him in the head. The blow landed perfectly and Hatter was launched through the air and skid across several yards in the courtyard. The twins started to casually walk towards Hatter enjoying their brief victory when suddenly Hatter got back to his feet and rushed them.

Hatter moved so fast as he grabbled arms with one of the twins and pushed him back a few yards until they started losing momentum; where Hatter immediately wrapped his arms under the Dark Paladin's. Then he pulled him to the side with him and stared spinning around quickly lifting the Dark Paladin off the ground holding him. After a few spins Hatter let go of the Dark Paladin with a strong push of his arms sending him flying far away.

Then Hatter turned his attentions to the other Dark Paladin twin and tackled him to the ground before he could even react. Hatter started pummeling his head into the ground with his fists with incredibly speeds. The Dark Paladin caught one of Hatters fists but Hatter threw it aside then put his hands together, raised them above his head and brought them smashing down onto the Dark Paladins head. Hatter didn't stop pummeling him until his head was half a foot deep in the concrete.

When the other Dark Paladin finally got back to them Hatter had finished off the other one as it started turning back into his human form. Hatter didn't stop too see what the twin looked like in his human form he put all his attention and rage onto the remaining Dark Paladin. The other twin was running at Hatter now, and Hatter waited until he wasn't too far away to sprint at him.

Hatter preemptively attacked the twin stopping him full force by grabbing his face and slamming him to the ground. The Dark Paladin managed to get his feet under him and launched Hatter behind him. Hatter recovered quickly in the air and as soon as he landed on his feet he sprinted at the Dark Paladin again who just got back to his feet When Hatter arrived.

Hatter delivered a furry of punches and Kicks, constantly forcing the Dark Paladin to stagger back a step or two. Hatter didn't let up or even slow down with his frenzied assault until the Dark Paladin was backed all the way into the wall at the other end of the courtyard. The card soldiers came into help at that point but Hatter ignored them as their weapons just broke off his dense white armored skin.

With his left hand Hatter held the Paladin against the wall while with his other he formed a fist and repeatedly punched him in the head with immense speed. After well over a hundred consecutive punches Hatter grabbed the Dark Paladin by his shoulders and flipped him into the ground. He then started kicking him in the head form there for a while when he finally felt the Dark Paladin was dead then turned his attentions to the cards.

Hatter was feeling very tired after all of that and knew he would not much last longer. He expended almost all his energy on the twins and still had to defeat the small army of cards completely surrounding him. Hatter lunged at the closest soldier to him and with one punch knocked its helmet head off and it fell to the ground dissolving into red smoke.

Hatter preserved his strength carefully while fighting the card soldiers and rarely bothered to block or dodge their attacks since their weapons usually broke off his skin. It still hurt him but the worst it would do was some bruising. Hatter made sure to kill each card soldier with one attack; either knocking its head off, or stabbing his hand through its chest. After slaying many card soldiers Hatter began feeling more and more exhausted. He would not be able to hold his Paladin form for long and still had several card soldiers left to defeat.

As Hatter battled on against the seemingly endless masses of cards he began to dread. Things were looking hopeless for him he was running out of energy and still he saw no sign of the wave of card soldiers ending. Hatter slowly fought his way towards the castle trying to make his way inside to help Alice finish off the queen and then run for their lives. But something strange happened instead, as Hatter continued slowly making his way to the castle, all of the card soldiers suddenly evaporated into a red smoke.

As the cards began to dissipate into the red smoke Hatter looked around with wonder and confusion. Whatever strange force caused the cards to disappear Hatter was grateful for it may have just saved his life. For a brief moment Hatter celebrated his victory when he remembered Alice and White fighting for their lives and all of Wonderland inside the castle. Hatter ran into the castle and headed through the throne room and up the tower stairs to aid Alice and White.

Cheshire and Emurla soared around high in the skies shooting bolts of lightning at each other from their mouths. Emurla kept trying to advance towards the House of cards but Cheshire blocked her at every front and started doing serious damage to her. While Emurla was simply trying to defeat her brother or maneuver around him, Cheshire was fighting to kill her.

After being grazed in the side by one of Cheshire's lightning attacks Emurla soared high above him and started to charge up for a powerful attack. Cheshire began charging energy to and as soon as Emurla released her energy in a wave of lightning breath Cheshire began to flap his wings in powerful strokes flying up towards his sister. Cheshire countered Emurla's stream of lightning breath with his own as he continued to fly higher and closer to his sister.

Cheshire using their lightning breath streams as a cover caught Emurla by complete surprise as he came close enough to grab her by the throat. Both of them were scorched a little by the lightning streams battling so close but they ignored as they now wrestled around in the air. Cheshire locked his wings around his sisters and they immediately started falling.

The two spiraled down out of the air spinning and spinning, Emurla tried opening her wings but Cheshire kept them closed using his own. When they were only 13 yards way from the ground Cheshire released his grip on his sister and broke away from her. Cheshire then leveled out his body, extended his wings and soared downward at first then pulled himself up, grazing the ground slightly as he passed it and then gained some air again.

While Emurla tried to level herself out then flap her wings. She did little to slow her momentum and instead of going up like shed planned she was too close to the ground and slammed down on it hard. She fell almost straight down and took most of the impact on her back.

The impact shattered Emurla's spine and she yelped in enormous pain. She immediately began to transform her shape into a colossal blue tinted bear. Her spine was reshaped and mostly healed as the pain faded, but the damage to her internal self was still dealt. She got up to face Cheshire who just landed on his feet and was transforming into a colossal purple and grayish wolf.

Emurla sued her magic to turn her fur into a blazing fire surrounding her body. The flames did her no damage but were so hot that they began distorting the air around her. Cheshire in response grew thinner and rushed at her with immense speed.

At first it looked like Cheshire was going to attack her head on but then he bolted to the left and started running circles around her. He began picking up speed as his figure became a blur to Emurla. She tried following him with her eyes but could not and only starred at the blurry figure running around her in confusion. She soon grew impatient and tried to swipe through the air where Cheshire would be but he only moved outwards a little to avoid the swipe then went back to running circles around her.

It wasn't until the flames were almost completely gone that Emurla realized what Cheshire was doing. By running so fast around her he was creating a small cortex that was cutting off the oxygen and killing her flames, she would not be able to create more as long as he kept running circles around her and he was too fast in that form for her to hit. Emurla cursed to herself and tried shooting lightning out form her mouth but when nothing came out she realized that the form she took only had the flames.

Emurla began to shape shift her body transforming into a blue smoke and begin to reassemble in another shape. Cheshire took advantage of the opportunity presented to him and stopped running around as soon as Emurla began to change. Cheshire stood on his back legs and swiftly began transforming his right paw into a shadowy like claw.

As Emurla's new body become more and more into shape Cheshire thrust his shadowy hand forward at her with great speed. Before Emurla could complete her shape shifting Cheshire's shadowy hand penetrated her would be chest area and grabbed her heart; then yanked it out.

The heart was a blue glowing oval like object that's light began to fade. Emurla's body completely turned into blue smoke and dissipated in the air. The sound of Emurla's voice began to echo from the heart as she said, "Why brother, why choose them over me?"

"I am choosing to wrong all of the mistakes we and our ancestors made so long ago. I gave you the choice of leaving with me, discovering new worlds together. But you chose the queen over me and gave me no other option, I am sorry beloved sister."

Cheshire was in tears holding the heart close to him now as its light slowly faded away.

Alice let go of her sword and the queen fell onto her back dead. Alice got down on her knees and checked Whites wounds; he was bleeding out badly. "Hang on I'm going to go get some help." Alice said.

White grabbed her before she could leave and said, "No, no stay with me until I die please."

Alice was in tears now as she cradled Whites head into her lap. "Don't say that were going to go get you help and you will up in no time and can finish training me. We can go back to the cottage; I can learn how to make tea almost as good as March and we can all live happily ever after. And we can write a book together about what happened-"

White put his finger up to Alice's lip to stop her. "It's okay my dear, my mission is over the queen is dead and Wonderland is free. I wasn't sure if you would make it past the Jacks in time to pull this off."

"I didn't, they just disappeared into smoke, armor and everything then I saw you get stabbed by the queen and rushed over to aid you. But I was too late." Alice's tears flowed faster now.

White chuckled a little, and then said, "You did good, besides it is fine I'm going to join my brother shortly; but I need something from you first. The first thing is take care of Hatter; he is going to need you to keep him out of trouble. The last is I want you to be the next queen of Wonderland, you may be young but I believe you have what it takes to restore things back the way they should be; Hatter will help you in this task."

Alice kept crying but nodded her head at Whites request. She held him closely until he stopped breathing and closed his eyes for good. Hatter came up the stairs moments after and transformed back into his normal form as soon as he saw the scene. He walked over to Alice crouched down and wrapped his arms around her. She buried her face in his chest and just cried while he stroked her hair and held her close.