Wonderland4
-do de doo. I don't own the stuff, so y'know.
Wow! Actual reviews! I feel so.accomplished! No, not really. Actually, my stomach hurts.
Wanda ran faster than Tabitha, and Tabby was shaking from nervousness, so she watched Lance leap into the air, his long black sleeves flapping. He cleared a gigantic rabbit, dug his heels in, and swiveled around, his fist showing as he plunged it into the rabbit's back. He was gripping several long knives. The rabbit screeched as its blood poured out. Lance moved on to the next one.
"Wow." Tabitha muttered to herself as she continued to speculate, still running. She heard Wanda yell something in a cheerful voice, and suddenly the ground beneath her was rocking. Suddenly, green vines burst from beneath the crust, entwining around the nearest rabbit, completely covering it. Several others fell victim to the thorny ropes, and Wanda ran farther into the thick of battle, where Lance was working his eerie ninja tricks.
Tabitha was taken aback by their skills, and how she couldn't do much. She was distracted watching Lance's dance of knives and doom, when a white shape loomed above her. One of the rabbits escaped Wanda's enchantment, and was after her. Tabitha lifted the sword of Alice over her head, and willed the glow-thing to happen. Nothing did. The rabbit's paw came dangerously close to her head, and jumped backwards.
The sword won't work, tabby thought. I need to use my powers. Concentrate. Nothing was happening. She couldn't even use her mutant powers. This was bad. The rabbit's paw kept making swipes, and she kept trying to dodge it. She was struck a couple times, and when the rabbit lunged with his teeth bared, she was lucky to trip over a rock, stumble backwards, and nearly miss the evil-looking buck teeth.
Tears welled up in her eyes. She couldn't take it. This was the worst dream ever. Jumping to her feet, she gripped the sword and glared at the rabbit.
"I won't let a dream kill me." The patterns started to glow. She raised the sword above her head, and brought it down, hard and fast. A wave of energy swept from the blade, and the rabbit was swept in two. Fueled by her hatred and anger, she ran to Lance. He was closest to the next rabbit, The next victim.
It had been a few hours since the attack, and many rabbits were still lying dead on the field. The trio walked ahead. Wanda was singing a little less energetically than usual. Lance seemed the same. Tabitha tried to think of what had happened to her out there.
"I felt like a different me." She murmured to herself. "Like there was someone else in me that I can't control." She felt awful, nauseous. "I killed an actual being, a living thing."
"So did I, so did Wanda. So what?" Tabitha jumped when she realized Lance had been listening.
"I don't know where you're from, but death is a lot more.mainstream here. People die, and there is grieving, but people aren't completely broken about it. Everybody dies."
"I-I know," Tabitha was nervous. Her stomach kept rolling. "I just.don't like hurting things that much." She gulped audibly, putting a hand to her mouth, as if she were to vomit. Tabby fell to her knees.
"I just don't want to hurt anyone." The world went black. Her cheeks burned. What was wrong? She had been fine earlier.
Tabitha woke now and again, allowing strange real-world happenings to intrude upon her dreams. Lance was carrying her.he said something about fever.serious.
There was darkness. Someone was asking for Tabitha, why she wasn't here yet. They were crying now. Tabby was in the darkness. She found the person, a woman. She couldn't see the woman's face, she was just sure of the outline. She stopped sobbing and grabbed Tabitha's hand.
"You will stop it." Tabitha still couldn't make out a face. "The madness that was once stopped will be stopped again.with the same sacrifice." Her grip on Tabitha's hand was tightened, extremely. Her other hand went to her grip, as if giving Tabitha an Indian burn.
"Ow." Tabitha tried to pry the woman off, but it just got more painful.
"L-lemme go." One of Tabitha's hands strayed to the woman's wrist. Tabby groaned in agony, and pushed at the woman's face.
"Hey." Lance said. Tabitha opened her eyes. Lance was holding her wrist, and pushing her palm away from his face with his other hand. Tabitha sat up.
"Oh.um.what?" She was in a neatly made bed, in some kind of infirmary with brick walls. There were two chairs next to the bed, and Lance's pack and her sword was balanced against them.
"You were yelling in your sleep. Wanda went to get water." He sat back down.
"Where are we?" Tabitha could see a long hallway past the solitary door.
"When you collapsed, we weren't far from this town. We just brought you to the infirmary."
"Oh.I see." She glanced about nervously. "What was wrong with me? I feel fine now."
Lance's face didn't change. "Remember when I said how you feel affects your surroundings? You said you were guilty about killing those rabbits, so you must have been punishing yourself. That guilt took the form of a fever."
"Oh." Tabitha wondered if Lance abandoned his emotions just so he could not have things like this happen. That seemed a large sacrifice.
"Um.thank you for." Tabitha felt embarrassed, as if she had shown too much weakness. "Just.thanks."
Tabitha almost thought she saw Lance smile out of the corner of her eye when Wanda burst through the doorway, holding a pottery bowl full of water and a washcloth.
"Guess what, guess what, guess what!" She cried, dropping the bowl onto a nightstand and jumping onto the foot of the bed. She grinned from ear to ear.
"They're having a full-blown marketplace here!" Wanda was brimming over with sugar high energy.
"Who gave you candy?" Lance was slightly fearful. "Last time you had candy, it took me three days to get all the moose fur off the walls." Wanda started giggling.
"I'm fine, by the way." Tabitha stated.
"Yayyyyyy!! Tabby's back!" Wanda hugged the other girl. She went back to grinning maniacally. "Lets go, lets go, lets go! I wanna go to a market!"
Lance sighed and nodded.
"I feel fine." Tabitha wanted to know what a marketplace was. " What's a marketplace.?"
They left the quaint building and onto a crowded street. There were street performers everywhere, most in robes and dancing.
"A marketplace is a festival." Lance explained as they pushed their way through the crowds. "They occur when various traveling vendors happen upon the same city and set up shop. They tend to attract more visitors.and this happens. You could buy anything you wanted here.if you looked in the right place." Wanda had disappeared among the masses. The crowd had seemingly concentrated around where Lance and Tabitha were standing, causing Lance to suddenly have to toy with the boundary of social behavior.
Tabitha tried to push some strangers out of the way, pretending to be very interested in one of the street performers. The pushing continued.
"Sorry." Lance muttered. He pushed the guy in back away, and they continued. When they reached a less populated area, Tabitha realized her cheeks where hot. They kept walking, occasionally glancing at vendors' items. Tabitha asked Lance if there was some relic that could send her home, since stuff like that happened in fairy tales and such. He said no, but there where jewelry that could enhance or grant one power. She gave up.
Apparently the queen was the only one allowed to bring or expel one from Wonderland. Tabitha checked her book, but there was nothing about a marketplace in Alice in Wonderland. Lance smiled slightly.
"A lot more happens in that book than what's written, or so we're told." he disappeared in between two fat men. Wanting answers, Tabitha squirmed through after him. When she caught up, he just looked at her like always. She sighed.
"Don't worry. In Wonderland, a lot of things don't matter. I guess Alice was the only one that made a difference. Now, you're going to be another Alice."
She didn't protest. "I guess I have to learn a lesson or two before I go back; like in the original book."
Lance smirked.
"Let's go. I can get you a bargain deal on some poison gas. I'm a pretty good negotiator."
Tabitha nodded. They walked back in.
-do de doo. I don't own the stuff, so y'know.
Wow! Actual reviews! I feel so.accomplished! No, not really. Actually, my stomach hurts.
Wanda ran faster than Tabitha, and Tabby was shaking from nervousness, so she watched Lance leap into the air, his long black sleeves flapping. He cleared a gigantic rabbit, dug his heels in, and swiveled around, his fist showing as he plunged it into the rabbit's back. He was gripping several long knives. The rabbit screeched as its blood poured out. Lance moved on to the next one.
"Wow." Tabitha muttered to herself as she continued to speculate, still running. She heard Wanda yell something in a cheerful voice, and suddenly the ground beneath her was rocking. Suddenly, green vines burst from beneath the crust, entwining around the nearest rabbit, completely covering it. Several others fell victim to the thorny ropes, and Wanda ran farther into the thick of battle, where Lance was working his eerie ninja tricks.
Tabitha was taken aback by their skills, and how she couldn't do much. She was distracted watching Lance's dance of knives and doom, when a white shape loomed above her. One of the rabbits escaped Wanda's enchantment, and was after her. Tabitha lifted the sword of Alice over her head, and willed the glow-thing to happen. Nothing did. The rabbit's paw came dangerously close to her head, and jumped backwards.
The sword won't work, tabby thought. I need to use my powers. Concentrate. Nothing was happening. She couldn't even use her mutant powers. This was bad. The rabbit's paw kept making swipes, and she kept trying to dodge it. She was struck a couple times, and when the rabbit lunged with his teeth bared, she was lucky to trip over a rock, stumble backwards, and nearly miss the evil-looking buck teeth.
Tears welled up in her eyes. She couldn't take it. This was the worst dream ever. Jumping to her feet, she gripped the sword and glared at the rabbit.
"I won't let a dream kill me." The patterns started to glow. She raised the sword above her head, and brought it down, hard and fast. A wave of energy swept from the blade, and the rabbit was swept in two. Fueled by her hatred and anger, she ran to Lance. He was closest to the next rabbit, The next victim.
It had been a few hours since the attack, and many rabbits were still lying dead on the field. The trio walked ahead. Wanda was singing a little less energetically than usual. Lance seemed the same. Tabitha tried to think of what had happened to her out there.
"I felt like a different me." She murmured to herself. "Like there was someone else in me that I can't control." She felt awful, nauseous. "I killed an actual being, a living thing."
"So did I, so did Wanda. So what?" Tabitha jumped when she realized Lance had been listening.
"I don't know where you're from, but death is a lot more.mainstream here. People die, and there is grieving, but people aren't completely broken about it. Everybody dies."
"I-I know," Tabitha was nervous. Her stomach kept rolling. "I just.don't like hurting things that much." She gulped audibly, putting a hand to her mouth, as if she were to vomit. Tabby fell to her knees.
"I just don't want to hurt anyone." The world went black. Her cheeks burned. What was wrong? She had been fine earlier.
Tabitha woke now and again, allowing strange real-world happenings to intrude upon her dreams. Lance was carrying her.he said something about fever.serious.
There was darkness. Someone was asking for Tabitha, why she wasn't here yet. They were crying now. Tabby was in the darkness. She found the person, a woman. She couldn't see the woman's face, she was just sure of the outline. She stopped sobbing and grabbed Tabitha's hand.
"You will stop it." Tabitha still couldn't make out a face. "The madness that was once stopped will be stopped again.with the same sacrifice." Her grip on Tabitha's hand was tightened, extremely. Her other hand went to her grip, as if giving Tabitha an Indian burn.
"Ow." Tabitha tried to pry the woman off, but it just got more painful.
"L-lemme go." One of Tabitha's hands strayed to the woman's wrist. Tabby groaned in agony, and pushed at the woman's face.
"Hey." Lance said. Tabitha opened her eyes. Lance was holding her wrist, and pushing her palm away from his face with his other hand. Tabitha sat up.
"Oh.um.what?" She was in a neatly made bed, in some kind of infirmary with brick walls. There were two chairs next to the bed, and Lance's pack and her sword was balanced against them.
"You were yelling in your sleep. Wanda went to get water." He sat back down.
"Where are we?" Tabitha could see a long hallway past the solitary door.
"When you collapsed, we weren't far from this town. We just brought you to the infirmary."
"Oh.I see." She glanced about nervously. "What was wrong with me? I feel fine now."
Lance's face didn't change. "Remember when I said how you feel affects your surroundings? You said you were guilty about killing those rabbits, so you must have been punishing yourself. That guilt took the form of a fever."
"Oh." Tabitha wondered if Lance abandoned his emotions just so he could not have things like this happen. That seemed a large sacrifice.
"Um.thank you for." Tabitha felt embarrassed, as if she had shown too much weakness. "Just.thanks."
Tabitha almost thought she saw Lance smile out of the corner of her eye when Wanda burst through the doorway, holding a pottery bowl full of water and a washcloth.
"Guess what, guess what, guess what!" She cried, dropping the bowl onto a nightstand and jumping onto the foot of the bed. She grinned from ear to ear.
"They're having a full-blown marketplace here!" Wanda was brimming over with sugar high energy.
"Who gave you candy?" Lance was slightly fearful. "Last time you had candy, it took me three days to get all the moose fur off the walls." Wanda started giggling.
"I'm fine, by the way." Tabitha stated.
"Yayyyyyy!! Tabby's back!" Wanda hugged the other girl. She went back to grinning maniacally. "Lets go, lets go, lets go! I wanna go to a market!"
Lance sighed and nodded.
"I feel fine." Tabitha wanted to know what a marketplace was. " What's a marketplace.?"
They left the quaint building and onto a crowded street. There were street performers everywhere, most in robes and dancing.
"A marketplace is a festival." Lance explained as they pushed their way through the crowds. "They occur when various traveling vendors happen upon the same city and set up shop. They tend to attract more visitors.and this happens. You could buy anything you wanted here.if you looked in the right place." Wanda had disappeared among the masses. The crowd had seemingly concentrated around where Lance and Tabitha were standing, causing Lance to suddenly have to toy with the boundary of social behavior.
Tabitha tried to push some strangers out of the way, pretending to be very interested in one of the street performers. The pushing continued.
"Sorry." Lance muttered. He pushed the guy in back away, and they continued. When they reached a less populated area, Tabitha realized her cheeks where hot. They kept walking, occasionally glancing at vendors' items. Tabitha asked Lance if there was some relic that could send her home, since stuff like that happened in fairy tales and such. He said no, but there where jewelry that could enhance or grant one power. She gave up.
Apparently the queen was the only one allowed to bring or expel one from Wonderland. Tabitha checked her book, but there was nothing about a marketplace in Alice in Wonderland. Lance smiled slightly.
"A lot more happens in that book than what's written, or so we're told." he disappeared in between two fat men. Wanting answers, Tabitha squirmed through after him. When she caught up, he just looked at her like always. She sighed.
"Don't worry. In Wonderland, a lot of things don't matter. I guess Alice was the only one that made a difference. Now, you're going to be another Alice."
She didn't protest. "I guess I have to learn a lesson or two before I go back; like in the original book."
Lance smirked.
"Let's go. I can get you a bargain deal on some poison gas. I'm a pretty good negotiator."
Tabitha nodded. They walked back in.