My upmost apologies for not updating in so long on this, I also post it on a web forum having updated it there I didn't think of updating it here. The next two chapters are a bit rushed as I severly dislike the garden section of the game, and have more than likely skipped over a few none cutscene games...but of course after this It's my two favorite areas: The Chess Village and the Mad Hatters Domain, therefore look foreward to extremely detailed chapters.

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The White Rabbit..

Shion found very little enjoyment in her ride through the waters with the mock turtle as there were far to many things on her mind for her to ever enjoy such a thing at the moment and she took very little time for sight seeing. Up and around a series of hard curves as she merely waited for a light to come over her and announce that they were once again on land and she could breath without the aid of the turtle and his bubbles.

This light however came sooner than she had expected and as the turtle emerged from the small hole and out of the lake they had been in Shion gasped in awe and fell back. Allen shook the water out of his brown hair and crossed his arms as he offered her one final warning with a slight stutter in his voice as he said these words "F-f-finish what you start please, Your only a visitor," He added "We have to live here." Shion shook her head at this slightly annoyed that he would say such a thing to a person that he probably owed his entire life to.

"I'm not on Holiday." She assured him with a frown,

"And I'm not ungrateful." He assured to which she rolled her eyes at him. "Your an honorary reptile!" He pointed out."

"Lucky me," She said with so much sarcasm in her voice it would have been evident to even the most oblivous of people, herself included as she had often displayed a talent for missing things in other peoples voices and actions when they were really quite noticable. Her brother had always picked on her for it...She had always wondered what had happened to her brother though...as he had not been home the night of the fire.. But that was another story completely and she needed to figure out just what was going on here before she thought of such things.

"You'll think so when your underwater." Reassured the turtle with a frown somehow seeing that his gift was not really appreciated at the moment, nor was his precense to the young girl and he quickly left without another word leaving Shion, once again alone to try to find the White rabbit.

Though it didn't take her long to find him she frowned at the reception he had given her. It had made him seem like he did not want her there or that she was getting on his nerves with his constant lagging behind him. Though that wasn't truly the case to her it seemed that this was the Rabbit point of view instead of her own. He was standing against a rock wall a frazzled nervous look on his face as he checked his pocket watch constantly as though it showed that in the few hours of Shion's absense Wonderlands time was closer to running out than it had previously been when she was there. Upon seeing her he stood straight instead of the leaning posture he had previously taken when she wasn't to be seen and frowned.

"You've taken your sweet time." He said with a frown etched on his pale features as he ran a gloved hand through his dark hair.

"What do you mean I've taken my sweet time?" Shion asked slightly agitated at the young man in front of her as she clinched the handle of her knife once or twice and then let it go "Your the one who didn't wait!" She added and waited for him to retort for a moment.

"Forget reasons, They're useless." He said with a frown turning his back to Shion "Caterpillar is waiting.."

"Ah yes, I remember him well.." She said almost nostalgically "Thick Skinned, Far to calm, Smokes to much, Disagreeable smell.."

She thought on this matter for a moment "Why do I need him?" she asked almost cluelessly.

"None in wonderland is wiser than he is," He began "Only he knows what you can do to save us, Now follow closely," He said taking hold of Shions hand as though certain that he was going to lose track of her again and that if he did so Wonderland would be doomed. "The way is treacherous...and we have far to go before we can get there." She nodded as they proceeded along the small garden path.

The way was rather uneventful though with Kevin, walking along in front of her checking his pocket watch as though they were still only minutes away from the worlds destruction.

"Rabbit.." She said unsure of if she could call him by his actual name. He looked back to her at this but they still continued to walk along the path shielded from everything by leaves and trees that seemed so much larger than they actually were.

"Yes Shion?"

"What can you tell me about the Queen?" He frowed

"You mean to tell me that you..." He struggled with this and she shook her head not remembering any of the real details about the queen.

"I thought she would be...the one to save wonderland..." He said with a frown "But now it seems that she has done more damage than previously done..." He sighed he continued along the pathway without speaking anymore and Shion did much the same. It was obviously that the fact that he was one of her former servants bothered the young man deeply. But for some reason as she remembered the Queens goons, and everyone else in wonderland rather well, she had no memory of what the Red Queen looked or sounded like and it bothered her for some reason.

'But it's best not to ask these things until later on, Perhaps it's merely because my memory is rather foggy after the fire..' She shuddered at the through of the fire and then frowned as they emerged from the bushes.

Silence greeted them.

Not the humming of a single bug...not the gunshots of any of the ant agents of the queen..nothing, nothing at all and Kevin at this time voiced this concern worriedly."Funny how Quiet it is.." He said adjusting his jacket nervously "I don't like it... Caterpillar is just beyond this clearing...Let's sacrifice Stealth for Speed, Hurry Shion!" He said running ahead. Suddenly there was a great crashing sound..

then another...

and another...

It sounded like...large footsteps.

A tall figure who's face she could not see was walking through the garden, the only thing she could see was a tall leg, clad in black pants which were ripped slightly at the bottoms and a pair of black and white shoes.. Kevin who was a little bit farther ahead noticed this and frantically tried to run from the feet as they came to close to him for comfort...but it was in vain and Shion found herself crying out as once again memories of the fire Filled her vision..

There wasn't even time for a final word to him as his form not looked very much like a flattened pancake, and Shion fell to her knees crying and sobbing rather violently at this. There was suddenly a hand that came to rest on her shoulder and she looked up to see a pair of claret colored eyes staring at her. The Cheshire cat sighed closing his eyes as his grey cat ears clung to the side of head in mourning of his fallen comrade. He had no true idea of what he should have said to the young woman who was now mourning the loss of yet another member of her 'family'

"Every-everyone I love dies Violently...un-naturally...what's the use of going on!" She cried out "I'll only hurt others!" He sighed and closed his eyes again as he turned away from the sobbing girl and spoke in his usual cold and sarcastic manner.

"No time for Self-Pity, Caterpillar awaits..." He said softly before vanishing from her view.

This only caused her to sob harder than she previously had over the young man who had previously been in her presence being so insensitive. But then again he was right, and her childish mourning would be in vain if anyone else she loved died because of this person, and the red Queen... So she ran forward, the sooner she got to the Caterpillar...the sooner she could find out, just what she needed to do in order to save Wonderland from this wicked woman.