Disclaimer: I do not own American Mcgee's Alice
Chapter 3: Watery Grave
Alice looked down into the bubbling pool of water, that was the center
point of the cave they were in. She glanced at Cheshire.
"Are you sure this is the quickest way?" She asked him. He nodded.
"And it takes us through your armoury" Cheshire replied grimly. The
White Knight looked down through the water.
"I can't bally swim though and neither can Gryphon! Its easy for you
to send us down it, you can just vanish into thin air and appear on the
other side!" Knight growled at Cheshire who merely gave him an even wider
than normal grin and vanished. Meanwhile Alice was tieing a rope round
her waist and another round Mockers. She tied the other end round of her
rope round Knight and Turtles rope round Gryphon.
"Right you two, snuggle up to our bubbles and do the best you can to
make it easier for Turtle and me" With that Alice and Turtle dived down
into the circular jacuzzi pool and thrust themselves down. Alice fought
against the bubbles but for every two thrusts forward, the bubbles pushed
her one thrust back. The downwards shaft levelled out into a long tunnel.
Columns of rock fell, dust filled the air and soon they were charging up
an upwards shaft, light at the end of the tunnel. But Alice felt her air
run out, felt her drift into unconsciousness.
Alice walked through a long stone hall, on each side were empty cells
as she walked past a filled cell her heart leapt.
"Rabbit?" Alice cried and ran over to her freind, but the metal
bars blocked her way.
" Alice it is terrible here, you learn everyone elses shames and
your own come to taunt you" Alice's old freind croaked. "The abyss is your
own thoughts, you created it. Anger at the Red Queen for turning your freinds
against you, killing the ones who would not turn. Your sadness at the deaths
of all your freinds. The pain of thinking so many of your old freinds hated
you"
"i didn't just think Rabbit, I knew" Alice told him firmly. But
Rabbit just shook his head sadly.
"As long as you think like that, I will never be free" Rabbit turned
away from her.
"WAIT!" Alice called after him. Rabbit turned around and walked
back to her. "Your dead you can't be free"
"Oh no, death doesn't happen in Wonderland, only banishment" Rabbit
pointed around and Alice saw everyone. The Mad Hatter sitting in his cell
muttering
"The clock the clock, and Alice and the clock it should turn back
it must turn back, for Alice and Time, dear Time and ALICE!" The Mad Hatter
continued to rave like this when Alice turned away to the Jabberwock who
was weeping quietly to himself. .
"The burning, why did everything burn? Why did Alice burn everything?"
Jabberwock cried. Alice then turned to the biggest cell where in horror
she saw a face she would quite happily live without seeing.
"LET ME OUT!!!!! LET ME OUT!!!!! I RULE WONDERLAND!!!! NONE
SHALL RISE ABOVE ME!!!!!!!" The Red Queen roared and yelled and
banged against the cell walls. Alice felt it all disapearing all fading
away.
"I will free you Rabbit!" She shouted back at him. Rabbit waved
and smiled.
"I have complete faith in you!"
Alice's eyes opened and she felt fresh new air fill her lungs, with
new found strength she pushed herself up out of the water taking Knight
with her. Cheshire was waiting for her and was amazed to see a determination
fill Alice which he hadn't seen since the she was searching for the Queen.
"Everyone, there is no time to waste, and with that she ran down a
moss-lit tunnel"
Rabbit's death was crushing. I cannot do a fanfic without some reason
to bring him back. Please R&R and I will be doing more soon.