Disclaimer 2: I do not own American Mcgee's Alice.
Chapter 4: Caves of Peril
Alice ran out onto a green lit precipice, it dropped down and down to a mass of green liquid which bubbled with a vengeance. Ahead she could
see her toys. though they were wreathed in steam. She dashed up to the
end of the precipice and lunged forward. She felt herself supported by
great columns of steam, carrieing her over but something strange was happening
to the crafted stone chamber, columns were falling and before she knew
what was happening one great column smashed down upon her destination destroying
it in a great bang as mortar and dust and rocks flew outwards with her
toys. Alice flew past catching a long weapon on the way. Her Jabberwock
Eye Staff. She aimed it down at the few whole rocks below and fired frenzily.
Blasts of flame lit up the cavern, from where her companions were standing
they stared in shock at the awesome power of the weapon she now weilded.
Rocks exploded sending toys clattering up, Alice leapt over the steam and
caught two as they fell back down, she held the Demon Dice and Hatter's
clock in her hands, she stuffed them away and continued firing more rocks
exploded and Alice saw one more toy fly to her. Her Cards. She watched
in dismay as the rest, her Ice Wand, her Jackbomb, her Croquet Mallet all
fell into the bubbling green liquid. She stared over the steaming and crumbling
rift to her freinds.
"Come on we have to get out!" She yelled to them, no sooner than she
had said it, Gryphon, carrieing Knight and Mockers on his back flew in
a twisting swerving pattern to Alice, Cheshire appeared next to them.
"The quickest way out of this hellhole is the Ice spiral" Cheshire
pointed to a long spiral of ice which swirled up as far as the eye could
see. Alice gulped to herself but started up it.
Ice Ogres generally kept to themselves they sat in their Ice Caves chewing peices of their famous Snowcakes, but by nature they are bloodthirsty and the particular tribe who lived below the Ice Spiral were reknowned for being savage, they enjoyed ripping the flesh of travellers who came by and when they saw Alice and her freinds well they just couldn't resist. They painted their icy chests with blue paint and let out great battlecrys as they pounded their chests like Gorillas and charged out of their caves in fits of bloodlust, snarling and roaring and pounding sounded their hunt and each one desperate for the kill pushed eachother off the Spiral.
Alice stared down at the approaching Ice Ogres.
"This is stupid, we keep slipping" She pulled out the Demon dice and
cast it into the air, where it exploded, ripping a hole in the fabric of
Wonderland. And from the window flew a great green Thunderdragon. Alice
mounted it and waited while Mockers mounted Gryphon and Knight tied ropes
from himself to both of the Flying Creatures feet. and so it was that they
charged up the seemingly endless spiral of ice till their ticket out of
it was in site. A portal, a psychodelic swirl of green, white, blue and
orange framed in a beautiful if somewhat plain ice square. They pushed
off from the ground and straight up was their heading, up, weaving through
the spirals until they had reached the top where Cheshire waited for them.
But the portal had turned around and now all they could see was a icy wall.
And their pursuers closed in by the second.
Alice plunged her vorpal blade into the side and attempted to prise
it open the Thunderdragon exploded into a shower of blue sparks before
it could help. But slowly and surely the portal was turning to face them.
But slowly wasn't quick enough. The Ice Ogres moved quickly and Alice
could hear their roars, she could her the pounding fists and enraged screams
as they fought for head of the line. (For the Ice Spiral was only wide
enough for single-file.) Alice wrenched the Portal round with all her strength
and jumped through it.
Cheshire, Turtle, Gryphon, Alice and Knight swirled around in a twisted
and confused tunnel of swirls their minds drifted, but Alice's particularly,
in the bright swirls she saw Rabbit again.
"You can do it" He smiled but then he was lost and she was hurled out
of the other end of the portal. She saw it was deposited in the ground
and now that they had arrived was fastly turning back to grass. But the
grass was decayed and yellow and it only existed in patches on the rocky
and muddy ground. She was standing at the gates of a small but forboding
village. Above the metal gates the name of the village was depicted.
Despair: Abyss Port
Sorry again if this chapter is short. But the best parts are coming. So please R&R and I will be doing the next chapter soon.