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Chapter 8

Meeting the Queen

Still in her drugged state, Alice had pretty much no idea where she was going other just walking down some long pink gravel path towards some way out from the Woods. It was only after about ten minutes after she had aimlessly walked away from Hatter was that her hazy vision started to go away and realized she was nowhere near the Woods but in fact facing in front of her was an exceptionally long and neatly trimmed hedge.

"Goodness," Alice gasped, "wherever must I be?"

Taking a few steps back and seeing towering over the hedge was the wonderful looking palace that upon getting a better view of it up close made it seemed like something out of a cartoon and the brick work Alice swore she could tell had some strange patterns on them as if the brickwork was faint heart shape patterns built into the design, a curious bit of design she had never quite seen before. By this point however it was clear that this whole world seemed to be one big cartoon in of itself and she must have been the odd thing out in this strange world.

As she pondered this fact, she remembered that drug she and Hatter smoked and their crazy sex season that followed that during it. A sexual romp which led Hatter cumming inside her though being drugged she was unaware of it though and if she did she would not mind anyway knowing that it was her fiancé. Call her shamelessly bias but she felt Hatter could do no wrong.

Alice looked around again and much to her dismay was that Hatter was not there and that the combination of being drugged yet having her curious nature on show had ultimatly led her to be lost and she had no one but herself to blame for that, though in fairness that caterpillar might had to share some of the blame.

"Oh bother, now what?" Alice pouted as she placed her hands on her hips.

As she was trying to figure out what to do next, she heard someone muttering from behind her and her heart leapt thinking that Hatter had found her, though looking back she not Hatter but someone else who rushing towards the hedge. A certain someone in which Alice only knew quite well who it was and was the culprit for leading her into this crazy world to begin with; someone who wore a waistcoat and was a rabbit...

"Mr Rabbit!" Alice cried out as she followed him, but then she remember from her fiancée that the rabbit had a name. "Oh, Mr Tobias! Or is just Tobias? Please don't run away I need a word with you!"

Tobias wasn't paying any attention and was looking flustered with only one thing on his mind. "I'm late! I hope the Queen won't have my head, oh why is it always me?!"

With Alice hot on his tail (literally) she managed to just catch a glimpse of Tobias' face and she was shocked to see that he had a black eye. He never had that when she last saw him though she remembered the confrontation he had gotten himself involved with Bill the Lizard which had ended with the latter chasing the poor rabbit round his house. She didn't know who would have won the fight though she noticed his neatly presented clothes looked ragged showing all the evidence that he had been in a fight and yes, her curiosity was wanting to know more.

Though as Alice followed him through a gap in the hedges into what seemed like the entrance into some kind of maze, there was something worrying her about what Tobias had said regarding him losing his head at the hands of the Queen. Surely Hatter was only exaggerating about what the Queen was like? Right? Then again giving how everything in this world seemed to be all crazy, he might have not been exaggerating but telling the full truth.

After going down a few wrong turns and thinking for one moment that she had lost the white rabbit, again, she found him standing proud holding a small bugle in his hand and with that now also wore a white tabard with a heart in the centre. Before she could say anything, she noticed that he was standing next to a white wooden sign that in red letters read 'Royal Croquet Game'.

Alice had played some of Croquet during her childhood thanks to her parent's rich hobbies in all those garden parties and she did actually rather enjoy it so this might be something up her street. But then she remembered about wanting to speak to Tobias.

"Oh, Tobias, I finally found you!" Alice sighed with relief.

The rabbit stared at her with suspicion, his black eye being more noticeable here. "I say, have we met before?"

Alice shook her head, "no but I did follow you the world above and I fell down a rabbit hole. Surely you heard about what happened, right?"

Tobias seemed more interested in something else and cleared his throat.

"The games will be starting soon; you mustn't be late, or the Queen will be mad!" The white rabbit replied with a degree of fear in his voice.

Alice raised an eyebrow at him. "Well, ok...if you say so. I only was wanting a chat, how hard can it be?"

She then wandered into a large garden with trees of lovely red roses blooming from their branches and the smell from them was wonderful and she had always loved flowers because of that. Then as she looked closely at one of the branches of red roses, she realised something was off with them. A red drip followed from one of the roses and it was soon revealed that they were in fact white roses that someone had painted red, but why?

Alice's answer to that would be revealed not far from her in which the culprits for painting the roses were down to three card soldiers who at this moment in time were hurriedly painting one tree while arguing to each other over who was to blame to planting the wrong sort of tree.

Ever quite a curious girl who could not keep her nose out of other people's business, Alice ventured forward to find out more. "Excuse me?" She asked and the three card soldiers stopped their bickering and stared at her with bemusement at who this strange blonde girl was. "Why are you painting the roses red?"

One of them, a black three of spades, answered with, "you see luv, we planted the white roses by mistake."

"And the Queen only wants them red!" Added the two of spades.

"If she finds out, she'll have our heads!" Cried the ace of spades.

Alice gasped, Hatter wasn't lying about her as to was Tobias' fears about all this and now even Alice was starting to feel scared about this mad Queen and that Hatter was not going over the top with how he described her. "Goodness! I'm terribly sorry for you but...where is the Queen?"

Just then from out of nowhere, Tobias appeared blowing his bugle along with a ground of card soldiers following from behind and soon surrounded the garden.

"Make way for the Queen of Hearts!" The rabbit cried and the three card soldiers panicked, threw away their paint gear and fell to the ground bowing while Alice hid behind one of the trees with her heart beating hard as she felt something horrible was coming this way.

"Introducing her royal highness...the Queen of Hearts!" Tobias announced and stepping forward from behind was a large woman dressed in a black and red dress along with a fat ugly face, black hair and a silly small crown that seemed according to Alice was like one of those crowns that Anime princess characters would have. Though she didn't say anything knowing that it might be wise to do just that though that said Alice thought that this woman was not only the fattest woman she'd seen but also the ugliest.

Strangely enough her shade of red and black was similar to that of Hatter's outfit which seemed to make Alice think that red and black were the royal colours of Wonderland. Though in Alice's mind, only one person in the whole of Wonderland seemed fit to wear them…

The Queen gave off an aloof presence and turned her nose up at many who dared to look up at her...that was until her face changed to fury and she stomped over towards the tree Alice was hiding behind and she feared that she had been spotted, however it was one of the red roses that caught the Queen's attention and saw it was dripping red paint onto the ground.

She rubbed a finger on the dripping rose revealing the real white rose underneath and she turned back at the three cowering card soldiers on the crowd who were likely feeling that their doomed was already sealed.

"Who's been painting my roses red?" She asked with tranquil fury before exploding with, "WHO'S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED?!"

The three soldiers all started blaming each other to save their necks, quite literally, but the Queen wasn't having any of it as she cried out her following orders. "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"

Alice could only watch in sympathy as the poor three card soldiers were dragged away begging for mercy to try and get away from their doomed fate, alas there was nothing for the blonde woman could do to save them other than make a silent pray to them and hoped some miracle happened to them. Alice's gaze then turned over towards the villainous Queen and even though she had only seen this large woman for less than a minute, she already knew why many feared her.

Just then the Queen grabbed the trunk of the tree and ripped it from the ground with quite amazing strength before throwing it away and revealed a shocked Alice who's hiding spot had been compromised and she was now frozen to the spot out of fear not knowing how to react. The Queen glared at this woman with bewilderment mainly over her strange clothing that was not like anything she had seen in Wonderland.

"And who might you be?" The Queen asked with suspicion.

"W-Well, um, I'm...I'm Alice Kingsley," the blonde-haired woman stuttered in reply. "I hope I'm not interrupting anything?"

Suddenly, the Queen of Hearts smiled as if something dawned on her and her previous foul mood seemed to vanish in a split second. "Ah, young girl! I believe you are here for the Royal Croquet match? Everyone else has pulled out, no clue why with them all saying that they are all busy or one thing or the other, stupid them."

Alice thought for a moment, suspecting as to why people might have pulled out to begin with though it didn't her long as to figuring out why that might be but nonetheless Alice decided to play along if it was to try and get on the Queen's good side. "Um, yes...that is—"

"Excellent!" The Queen boomed happily and began making orders at her soldiers. "Begin preparations for the croquet match! We have found a contestant!"

As the remaining troops scattered round getting things ready, the Queen begin sniffing and gave Alice an odd look. This made Alice react with, "I swear I washed myself this morning. Do I really smell?"

"Oh no my dear nothing to do with that," assured the Queen as Alice lifted up and arm as she sniffed her armpit. "I'm sure you did just that, though I just can't help but pick up a scent from you that I haven't smelt in years, just can't think where though..."

Alice's blue eyes widened, she had learnt from Hatter that whenever one of his species found a mate, aka her, they would not only have sex but also cover their partner in a scent that would see them 'marked' as a claimed partner. Had the Queen found out about Hatter being nearby and his connection to Alice and speaking of which, where was Hatter? Alice could really use his help to get her out of this situation.

"Tell me girl, where are you from?" The Queen asked raising an eyebrow at her.

The blonde's blue eyes darted from side-to-side trying to figure out to explain her mad adventure. "Well, I'm not from Wonderland. I'm from...up there."

The Queen glanced up at the heavens then stared back at Alice. "Up there? As in you fell from the sky?"

"Not quite," Alice replied as she fidgeted with her hands. "You see, I fell down a rabbit hole and ended up in Wonderland. Sounds strange I know."

Just as the Queen was about to reply to that statement, Tobias appeared and cleared his throat to get their attention. "Your majesty, we are ready to begin the game."

The Queen gave Alice one last suspicious stare before going over to the bag that Alice assumed held the clubs. She would be proven to be half right in her guess as they were clubs but not as what she expected. What the Queen pulled out was not a club but a frightened and bewildered pink flamingo that was squawking like mad wanting to get away.

"Shut up you stupid animal!" The Queen snapped and forcefully stretched the poor flamingo into the position of a straight club in which it cried out in pain.

If that sight alone of that poor flamingo being tortured was not horrible enough for Alice, things only got more disturbing when the Queen brought out the ball which turned out to be a small green hedgehog like creature being forced into the shape of a sphere. Then with a great whack, the poor creature was fired through the wickets which turned out to be the card soldiers were using their bodies for that purpose and to say that it looked ridiculously rigged was not even worth to say it was an understatement as the cards/wickets moved for the poor creature being made to roll through all of them in order for the Queen to win her game.

Alice was utterly livid. If there was something she hated more than those in the Upperland who never understood her was cruelty to animals, and what the Queen did made the blonde woman hate this vile person more than anything she'd met in her life. Little wonder why Hatter wanted to overthrow her over than just for the throne though Alice did have to suspect if these poor animals were being abused, how many more were and what would they being forced to do? It was a horrible thought that Alice only wanted to put an end to it somehow.

As much as Alice wanted to give that woman a piece of her mind, she had little choice other than forcing herself to repeat the horrible action herself as it was now her turn to play the game. Alice wasn't thinking straight for she was very angry about this wicked game and she went to whack the poor rodent with great force but wildly missed it while bending over that much that the sound of ripping was heard from all.

Laughter erupted from all around and Alice did not know what was going on until she placed her hand on her bottom and to her horror, she felt that the seam on the back of her jeans had ripped revealing the silky teal underwear that Hatter had made especially for her for the world to see. Curse her fat ass to cause her problems at times like these!

Combine this with the animal cruelty she had seen, Alice finally lost her temper and directed her anger at the Queen of Hearts. "You are a truly awful, mean spirited, cruel and bad-tempered overgrown child that is not fit to rule!"

Everyone stopped laughing and gasped in horror with the Queen stunned then growing anger gripped her face with a long and drawn out silence followed, the sort of silence that you would have heard a pin drop.

"Oh bollocks," Alice uttered in horror as she clasped her hands over her mouth as not only her big bottom had gotten her into trouble but so too had her big mouth now pretty much sealed her doom and a fate much like those poor card soldiers was awaiting her.

The Queen's face was going redder by the second with an equal furious expression that was looking fit to burst her face apart. "No one, and I mean no one ever calls me that unless they wish for death...OFF WITH HER HEAD!"

Alice was suddenly grabbed by two card soldiers by her arms and dragged her towards the castle. Oh, wow couldn't she had just kept her mouth shut and just go along with it like she had thought of before? Luck never seemed to be on her side though as she was being dragged away, she found an unlikely ally.

"Your majesty, please give the girl a fair trial!" Called out Tobias and much to Alice's amazement, the Queen ordered her troops to halt and she stood there pondering about the request and seemed to considering it. Alice held her breath hoping that she might just have a small chance that she could get out of this situation. No one said anything, then..

"Mmm, very well then," the Queen replied with a nod. "The girl shall have a trial, albeit a small one just so I can get what I want...LET THE TRIAL BEGIN!"

Alice breathed a sigh of relief that she had a chance, a rather small and poor chance though. Once again though as she was been forced into the castle and even taking in more of the castle design, she could only mutter at her own foolishness that had gotten her into this mess and where was Hatter? He could not still be out there in the woods still in a drugged state with, dare she suspect, his large cock on full display for the world to see?

She needed to find a way to get out otherwise Alice was going to lose her head. It was one of great irony of that after all these years she had put up with those perverted boys in high school try to grope or spank her bottom, she now felt she'd rather rather be in that situation instead of the current situation she felt she was about to suffer the same fate as to what those poor car solders had obviously suffered. Life could be so cruel at times and her options seemed low.

She was needing a miracle, but how?

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