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Now since I haven't updated this fic for a while (and correcting for those that noticed since June 15th of 2022) and added into some of my others (especially new ones in my Documents), I figured it was time to add a new chapter (or chapters) to this popular story, and I still saw errors in the past chapters, so before this gets posted I will fix them up (and maybe add a few things here and there for more plot).

I simply hope you enjoy things once again as I plan to do stuff and stuff (not spoiling things yet be surprised, once again), and just like the last chapter I announced a while back, if it is long, I will spoil it (which at the end of the chapter or arc, will hold any Numerical Information, if any). If this is longer though, due note I will be splitting it into two chapters or so (like before).

The reason it took this and the other chapters of my other Fics longer than I intended (in due course for said fics still), is due to real life and troubling issues with my own family, alongside the COVID-19 Virus.

I would also like to mention this is sorta the "Main Character and Yuri" pairing, and it's a T-Fic for a reason.

So for those that have read the previous chapters, I am sorry I disappointed you that it isn't a basic "Female x Male" or "Male x Female Pairing", but that's the way I wanted it to be for most of my Fics… Though I am glad it isn't a "Male on Male", however. Don't get me wrong, there are decent Yaoi Pairing Fics that are good (yes that's what it's called, alongside Lesbian for the opposite), but that isn't what I want for my Stories themselves, same with all the other Fics I have done.

This also applies to my other stories as well.

So for those that don't like my Story Pairings, then don't read them and simply not foresee actual and interesting plot in them all that I had to think upon "Solo" and with research into what I intend to add to my Fics themselves, and even choose what to add. As you all recall, I have no Co-Author at all to help me.

To those that do read them, I appreciate your feedback via DM as such, and hope that you would continue to read what future chapters will be unleashed, especially my other alternative to contact me as well, here:

Aeonmasteraeroza (not my true actual Email, but mostly for Fanfiction to Contact me in another way)

I also like to inform everyone that I intend for my main character to grow into her abilities and powers (and body at times), especially since I plan for her to obtain something you all will recall as such, and maybe summon a different version of a "particular character" and someone else as her official, well, traveled companions (parts of the time, by a friends PM) besides a few certain future girls alongside one other girl (for spoil reasons down the road within the fourth year's end) you all may recognize, in due course as a spoiler to her later years, she and the girls themselves would be together as such for Hogwarts, and maybe more.

If I also mention specific odd creatures, they are concerning the Disney classical cartoon version of said movie and maybe a few chapters afterward, are about. And all the characters are detailed (even if I only leave their names) as their 2010 yeared movie counterparts… Yea, I am still surprised the movie itself is a decade old now.

If you're worried if none of her other girls won't join her in adventures… Worry not, as I plan to include them and a few others in each and eventual future adventure as I planned… And PMed Interesting Outcomes as well for them.

I also planned for a new outfit that I have decided is going to be Morgana's permanent one (with the other being her carefree main one) in this chapter and let's say… Expect the unexpected, and leave it at that, as she would grow accustomed and grow up with it (as a spoiler due to how long it has been, and it's a shifting and sentient outfit to shift to others).

I also plan to do something new as I liked the idea and might include it in my other fics, or not… Depending on what the outcome is as it was a DM Idea for me.

And if you are also perplexed as to why she cannot use some abilities or spells while others she can, here is the reason (to explain from another PM): Depending on what Book or setting she is in, and as a chaotic person via her particular race, her magic automatically adjusts to said environmental outcomes without knowing, and she is also young and doesn't figure out to try them as well… Especially to whatever would occur in this Arc.

Here's an example: If she can shift into a mermaid in a book, she could do so in specific areas. Another is the one flying spell that she was taught as most of the time it would be used in books (Moana being an example), while others it won't. I hope that settles everyone.

I also have an email that is provided in my profile if you want to personally contact me, as that is an extra email and not my true one, for whatever reason as my profile states it as.

Pairings Currently for Morgana: Cassie, Chipana, Death, Mirage, Elsa, Shania, Bowsette, Koneko Toujou, Artemis, ?, ?, ? (So you know, the others won't be till way later chapters, and also, I may keep it to ten or to maybe the limit to 13, for a "specific reason". So if you don't like this idea, then please do tell me… Let's say that one of them would be already revealed but the bond was in purpose, blocked for some time in terms, within this Arc, by someone powerful from long ago before the person was in the specific place they ended up at, as a reserved prank mixed with being a "Settle Down" term).

Expect something unexpected to occur to a few of her Soulmates, but I am not going to spoil who they will be.

I also have a "Spoil" of what the next few "Future Arcs" will be, as the hints will be in this order by what I have here within this, Arc Spoil Hints, as I want you all to figure them out: "tupuMe" "Tusreaer" "dIansl" (Unscramble the three words), "This is Halloweeen!...", Kyber Crystals 1, "Flower, Gleam and Glow…", "Hakuna Matata...", 626, Kyber Crystals 2, "I will be shooting for my hand!", Black Oil Lamp 2, Baker Street, Heart of "Asanitlt" (unscramble the last word), Kyber Crystals 3 (altered), "Yo~ Ho, haul together, hoist the colors high~. Heave ho~, thieves and beggars~, never shall we die~" 1-3, "Gonna (Blank) It!" 2, Scream Containers 1, Carter, "Aersenvg" (Unscramble the Word).

There will be more, but there will be time skips at some points, and most will be randomness in choice and others, not… Though I will spoil what the next one will be, at the end for Explanations of the Arc, so I can at least solve your problems.

Sibling Bonds for Morgana: Sorceress, Crystal, Ceraza, Trinaza, and Kalcea (forgot to add her due to Artemis). There will be one in this chapter, but merely read it to find out how she came to be.

Pairings currently for Ceraza: ?/6 (Same as Morgana for suggestions)

Trinaza: 3/6; Serina, Onita, Crumbelina, ?, ?, ? (Same as Ceraza for suggestions, they will get some storytime in future chapters)

Now I hope you guys like it, and merely enjoy it! :)

If it is long, split it into chapters.

Alert: You will get to read something that will be unleashed by Morgana herself, in due course, and let's say there will be a reason as to why in future chapters.


The Forest of Random Objectures, a day later:

Morgana sighed to herself while gently glancing at the reflection in the small pond nearby as she was currently feeding the Honk Ducks some special bread made by a person she and the other girls visited a day ago and also discreetly found out that somehow, they were sent into another realm of… Well, the craziness of sorts with hints of being sane, especially since she barely remembered the movies to this exact place as well.

They were in a land called Underland or in Normal Terms, "Wonderland".

It is a place, everyone, that held odd vibes for rhymes and others in tales as old as time (no pun intended), and mystical aspects all to its own as Underland was only a fraction of this bizarre world or in truthful manners, another dimensional realm.

Dani and Koneko were present with a few people as Morgana was oddly helpful for the unusual parties they incline to have and find out if they arrived here, in this strange land, it would be either the same or a day thereafter they can return, time-wise.

Other than that, they didn't realize the others were trying yet kept failing to show, vastly since Yidhian arrived as well before realizing that she can't "Poof" them back as for once failing a true yet precise wish to do so, and also not counting it as well to have only one of ten (1/10) wishes used.

The book also followed them as well, and oddly enough, shrunken to a subtle enough size for simpler carrying within Morgana's Pockets of her outfit, and would only grow back if she kindly told him, yes him, as such.

Right now, she preferred to be within the woods as she never trekked farther than she would, otherwise, she would end up lost as she gazed at her reflection glimpsing those marks she has yet to get used to just like her clawed hand, and was told by what Vanessa (yes that is right, Vanessa within herself from meeting within her dreams), found within her own heart somehow to realize she was getting close to rank three of her race and would unlock it fully with what little she found out were side-effects to it.

Though she would rarely talk and keep to herself at times since she was still shy about what occurred and Morgana.

Morgana remembered some things about the ranks thanks to the Goblins and hoped her Test would prove wrong she almost forced herself to the next rank as her horn was supposed to last only until then, but the information was vague as to what the ranks meant for her tribes, primarily the Hidden Tribe.

Mainly to her feelings as of currently, Morgana felt like that this was all her fault as, among other things, she was still contemplating herself that this has clearly been often told by others, and with Twilight not here and no one to honestly talk to, she was secretly going into what the terms of professional therapists would dub as a "Small Setback", mixed with being a slight improvement of others.

So the reason to be alone was to gather her thoughts, and she also, felt that she needed to be by herself for a brief period to collect on things and more.

And all good that has done. Morgana thought grimly then while glancing at her hands before gazing at the reflection within the water as she shook her head and fed a few other creatures this forest has: The Cymbal Frogs and Drum Frogs, the bizarre Glasses Birds and Hammer Birds, and more that would take an hour or so to list.

"None of this is your fault, and you know this Child." Xal'atath gently expresses to her while Ami sent soothing waves to try yet fail to calm Morgana sighed before she gently grabbed the weapon off her side and swerved away from the water while not at all glimpsing a pair of eyes that have been watching her this entire time, decided to leave, as she stared at her weapon with the dagger then rolling her eye at her soft words, "I still think it is as you know my luck tends to be both good and bad, and separating Dani from her family… Especially since she forgave me for hiding the truth like the others…" she turned away for a brief moment before shortly gazing to Xal'atath then as she remarked to her in a way, she was still convinced, "It was not of your own doing that brought her here with us. Whoever sent you and those two girls made sure upon your arrival to this land itself, wanted you to remain as even your Genie's Magic was affected."

Morgana mutely nodded before she blinked and sighed before doing a nod again by Xal'atath's own opinion while then getting into a position as some of the remaining creatures watched in strange curiosity, "Why not you resume our practice of what Azara taught you? We need to keep up with your luck." Morgana wavered a swipe while the eyeball on her weapon gazed cheekily at her words before practicing her weapon swings once again for almost a long moment before she tiredly gasped while she changed Xal'atath back into her dagger form.

She jumped before she soon swerved to see Koneko gradually clapping a few times while being impressed by her presentation and making Morgana tint, and her weapon privately providing the Nekotama a knowledgeable gaze before she dismissed herself back within Morgana as she gestured to her figure, and confusing the Young Chaosarinian, "It seems you had a practice of the way of the blades." She lingered before getting into a stance while showing her true self's cat features of her ears and tail, and started to then make Morgana unsure, "Let's see how you fare with physical combat then… Come, attack me."

"Ummm… Are you sure about that?" Morgana warily inquired to only get a wordless firm glance in response before she sighed and got into a sloppy stance, and then rushed at her… For only Koneko to trip her with untold flexibility and speed, and made Morgana's eyes swirl for a few moments since the Nekotama herself had the girl on her back while her foot was soon on her abdomen.

"I expected as much from your body as you hardly trained for this action…" Koneko then tells her while she easily hefted her up and saw Morgana looked crestfallen at this before tinting once again when the Nekotama gently gripped her face while making eye-to-eye contact and softly telling her with understanding orbs, as she saw the turmoil within them, "If you were able to block my attack, I would think of other ways to stop you. Mostly everyone you know about may have training in ways not known to you and you have to not worry about them, as you need to worry about what your actions would have."

Morgana noticing Koneko guessed she found out about what was going on with her, nodded before they sat on a log near them with her confessing to the Nekotama then while looking upwards and seeing the sunlight pour through the trees within the forest, "I expected from what I recall from Uncle Frost's lessons about bonds, and have to just guess you saw my past?" Glimpsing Koneko's gaze to understand she was indeed aware of that, held soft eyes at her then as Morgana continued, "It's just my fears and also the feeling of not preventing anything to hurt those close to me, makes me feel like I have no reason at all… I mean," she saw the female Nekotama's stare then, "I went through some things, came out as what you see and from all that… I feel like I'm still used and unimportant, a Freak to everyone else."

Koneko said nothing for a second before staring equally upwards while holding back an unseen blush from feeling their tails briefly twirl around against each other for a few moments before swishing gently back and forth as they untangled, and Morgana stared at her as if she didn't anticipate her words at all, "I have to be truly honest, Mate, is that others have also suffered from past deeds of others and we solely learn to live with being aware that we are breathing, and we are alive."

Koneko turned and saw Morgana's gaze and saw the emotions within her newly minted mate's orbs before she gazed away and still heard her quiet words of 'Like me', and made her hold back her simmering hidden rage while recollecting what her Queen told her from glimpsing Morgana flinch in place, as she acted out of her character: She hugged her gently while, at the same time, was calmly rubbing her back.

She was also mixed from smelling late at night from staying at the one place with her, she was also bonded with a few other girls but understood it was to be expected while, discreetly, stunned that her Soulmate was her kind of race and hoped by what she overheard from little information she looked into of the rare and dangerous "Mode" they tend to go into, and wouldn't know how to stop it.

"It seems I tumbled abruptly at bonding time, didn't I?" A random male voice implored as they pulled partially away from each other and turned to see within the closest tree to them was a cat grinning at them widely, and it wasn't any ordinary cat: It was the Cheshire Cat or Chessur as his name.

Mentioning him, Chessur is indeed a Cheshire cat with long grey fur along with light-blue stripes, big turquoise eyes, and razor-sharp pointy teeth. He looks a bit fat and is very much bigger than a common cat… Though in a secretive sense, he was also cousins to others of his kind and would meet them now and then.

Koneko hid her discomfort upon this bizarre cat's entrance while gently sighing when Morgana glanced at him with a tilted head as he kept grinning still, "Hey Chessur… How's your one cousin doing?" He replied cheekily while becoming a mist before appearing and hovering next to them while doing the backstroke within the air, "Not too bad… But I haven't heard of anything from my alternative half-sibling for a while. The Sphinx racial he is, as I stressed the worst has occurred…" here he became misty again before circling and only being a head that made Morgana giggle a little while he was acting like Koneko was a chimera from glimpsing his head hovering around her tail before looking to be the size of a smaller cat while sitting casually on her lap, then, and finished while thinking, for a moment or two, "Well, to his part of his Wonderland recognized as the Nightmarish Lands, that is, and their people."

Morgana stared at Chessur in small concern as she was up most of the night and Koneko didn't realize this, but the cat himself told her small tales to eventually get her to sleep.

For you see, if I may tell you all within this paragraph, Chessur was in association to Chaos himself, as his grandkid, as also back in the odd entity's day… Let's say he was a player to other cats, and leave it at that, largely since he could travel (when he decided to that is) through time and space, but costs him a week's worth of sleeping in afterward.

"So… What're you both Younglings up to today?" Chessur inquired curiously yet before any of them could get a word to him, they turned to stare up in the sky, with Chessur becoming normal and hovering lazily near them by seeing a very bright, shooting star that was followed by several more, erratically, striking at random locations within Underland.

"That is not normal…" Koneko plainly states to the Cheshire Cat as he wordlessly hummed in minor thought before observing in the sky then by the unexpected shine of something startling, "Perhaps it would be sufficient if we moved a few feet to the left."

Confused by that, Morgana was about to ask before she hid a yelp as Koneko pulled her as Chessur warned to their shock, an actual meteor that oddly enough, resembled a star in black gemmed design, revealed within the small crater that formed while it was also filling with water.

"A rare star shower… Scarcely seen those in days past." Chessur murmurs to himself aloud while watching Morgana curiously picking it up while not at all feeling the heat it gave off as it soon cooled down, and yet, the gem-like meteor hummed as if it had a heartbeat.

"Mr. Chessur… What is this?" Morgana asked with her feeling like Xal'atath was wondering about this as well as Ami decided to take a nap, and glimpsed at recognizing curious orbs for a brief moment within Her Koneko's eyes. "Why, my dear… That is very remarkable for any star shower to have a star completely intact. Considering how our land is, this is deemed a lucky gift by the heavens themselves to those that find one. The Blackened Star."

"The Blackened Star?" Koneko chose to question Chessur as he grinned at her while telling her in a way she was irritable for a few moments after, cheekily, by his words and actions, "Yes... And perhaps it could be considered a sign while compelling your rage when I do this," he unexpectedly yanked her tail to make her yowl before she was angrily chasing him around the area closely as Morgana, in turn, amusedly watched them while clutching the item itself while peeking at it for a few seconds before hurriedly trying to catch up while holding the object, not noticing it glow faintly a few times with three colored lights within and dimmed to catch up to her Mate and friend.

Chessur eventually and confidentially, led the two back to the House of the March Hare.

To be brief, the home is placed within the part of the woods conjoined with several others (including the woods Morgana recently was at with Koneko) labeled the Tulgey Wood, the House of the March Hare is a windmill in ruins as previously, this place was once surrounded by lush trees and beautiful flowers, but it is now a gloomy wasteland. This is where the Mad Hatter or otherwise known as Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad March Hare or Thackery Earwicket, The Dormouse or Mally, and Chessur tend to enjoy each other's company by drinking tea and eating cakes.

Speaking as such… They were having tea, and let's characterize at least one of them, shall we?

Tarrent is a slender, pale-skinned man around 5′10 with curly red hair, green eyes along with color-changing eyeliner that tends to shift when angry or worse, a manic smile. His outfit… Let's say it is bizarre as the man himself, and leave it as is.

While laughing and having a time with glimpsing Dani awkwardly drinking hers and tugging at the dress they provided that was around her size, frilly of sorts, and a mix of lavender and teal when she saw them and simply waved in a way to amuse Morgana it meant, help me.

"Ah… They return with the Cat." Tarrant states with a smile, but only Koneko indicated the tone to be annoyed while Chessur merely grinned at them while he ended chasing her and misted before materializing next to the man, and floating lazily while gesturing to a particular item, "It's great to see you too… You and that lovely hat."

Morgana dodged hastily though when Thackery tossed a teacup at her while laughing crazily before his friends laughed when she, thanks to Yidhian and Chessur's small training within the few so-called days they been here within Underland, sent a small bolt of green, flame-like lightning attack of sorts above his head to the point where it nearly scorched his fur as she beamed, and started to avoid his throwing objects at her while she sent small blasts of the same attack back.

Koneko was relatively impressed while heading over to Dani and standing by her Mate's deemed sisterly friend and understood that wandless magic would be better in training for Morgana, but was rather perplexed as to why she was learning and also not learning as fast as she could… And hoped it wasn't due to her problems before anything as she caught her Mate's star gently for the Nekotama to hold.

Dani was getting used to the craziness that this land provided, only slightly, and was enjoying herself… Except for one thing to which she murmurs to the female Nekotama to make a small smile secretly show on her face while merely watching her Mate have fun, and pocketed the gem, "Is my outfit fixed up yet?"

After several more tossing of objects and magic, Yidhian while herself, appeared, and snapped her fingers and made the Hatter and Dormouse giggle to themselves while sipping tea and causing Morgana to playfully pout, and the partially singed March Hare to stare at her in a way, why did you make us stop, before tossing a cup at her which she automatically changed it into a water balloon and sent it back while immediately soaking the Hare. "Yiyi, why did you stop us? We were having fun?"

Yidhian was internally pleased with Morgana getting out of her habits now and then and glimpsed at Koneko who took Dani into the windmill to see if her outfit was finished while coming over, and resisted Morgana's cute glare from flicking the left part of her forehead while cheekily informing her softly then, "There is fun, and there is over exhausting yourself once again… Don't you remember I told you about my ring and what it tells me?"

Morgana tinted at this in a way to show everyone she forgot and Koneko blinked when she was back to allow Dani to change as she didn't acknowledge her Mate was that low of her power at the time, and entertained Tarrant and the others, even more, when she made Morgana tinted further by hugging her into her bosom deliberately while ignoring Koneko's immediate glare at that, before pulling away while gazing at her in secretive concern the child saw as the female genie as she gently caressed her ring on her hand, "You are overwhelming yourself again, and I can detect if that's happening while you wear my ring, as my third reminder."

Morgana just looked away at that to make the genie sigh to herself before suddenly getting an idea, and veered around to Chessur to make both the Cheshire Cat and The Mad Hatter pause in their small quarrel with each other, with hints of cheeky comebacks, by her question. "Isn't the one creature… Absolem was it, has tales besides being an Oracle?"

"Yes. Besides him, the Tweedles should possibly be with him, last I heard." Chessur states while Tarrant halted said cat from snatching his hat once again and perked up Morgana with Koneko discerning those same eyes she once knew within her Mate's orbs long ago and surely sensed the girl's inner stress while she sighed and made Yidhian blink alongside the young girl, "Make sure she's not harmed Djinn." She then stiffly went inside the windmill after hearing a crash caused by Dani.

As Yidhian eventually led Morgana out of the home area of the Mad March Hare, Thackery trembled while telling the group with a crazed grin and started downing his tea to only briefly have Tarrant glimpse at the direction of the two with Chessur vanishing, "I have the willies something is gonna happen."

Mally forgot her important thing she had to do by checking the time, and hastily scurried off as above them, hidden, was a pair of glowing eyes not belonging at all to Chessur, but to another within a spelled, concealed mist of sorts before following the Dormouse.


Twenty or so minutes later… Tulgey Wood's Home Area for The Oracle Otherwise Known as The Mushroom Forest:

A group of individuals was within the overwhelming and wild garden within this part of the woods, one being a human female. As spoken of, the garden is brown and tangled, its statues broken and overgrown, and the mossy fountains that once flowed are silent. Specifically in the area that was part of the land, were wild yet special mushrooms in random parts everywhere.

Noting the individuals, Mally was here, and there were the Tweedle Boys (Tweedledum and Dee) who are a pair of identical twins that appear as bald fat boys wearing black and white striped T-shirts and brown shorts. The White Rabbit or Nivins McTwisp as he is a slightly obese white rabbit, with large ears and feet, a blue coat with a tie, gold pocket watch.

And a few others as well, which also includes the Oracle himself. Speaking of him, he is a blue slug-like caterpillar with a habit of smoking (which is a bad habit) by the name of Absolem.

But that's not who we are here to discuss primarily.

The female human, as noted, is a slender young woman around nineteen years of age with long blonde hair, pale skin, and dark brown eyes. Oddly enough, she would resemble Mia Wasikowska by appearance and height at this age. She wore, however, a satin blue Victorian summer party dress, minus a corset and stockings, and black shoes for the era.

This was famed, in Morgana's Time and also, in fact, an actual person from the confidential part of her biological parent's society, Alice Kingsleigh.

To comment as to what led up to this circumstance, Alice was discerning affairs before she pursued Nivins through a rabbit hole within the Ascot Family Property, in the ground by a tree close to the very mansion itself.

She was then falling within the hole as it was stuffed with furniture of many sizes, from small table lamps, a bed, and even a piano; some furniture is positioned on the walls of the hole, however, while others are just floating in midair. Particularly other odd and also ends, and to within a discreet sense without knowledge, was placed in a special shrunken trunk that an unseen force within the area at the time, done, and was within her pockets before also ending up within the Round Hall in Underland.

One thing led to the other and she ultimately was led to this place within the woods.

"Absolem?" She inquired of the caterpillar warily as he was smoking from a hookah with a mist steadily rising from it, and he had a gleam within his orbs yet declared to her then, "You're not Absolem. I'm Absolem. The question is… Who are YOU?" He then blows smoke rings in her face as she coughs to which she managed to give her name to him, "Alice."

"We shall see." Absolem informs her wryly in a way she was a mix of being perplexed and suspicious of while crossing her arms with a raised eyebrow, "What do you mean by that? I ought to know who I am!" She promptly told him at the end of her words though and made him roll his eyes before telling her then, "Yes, you ought. Stupid girl."

Before he could say to the others to unroll a specific object, they stilled and heard loud rustling- "Oomph!" Alice states as she was abruptly knocked down by a blur of sorts with the others alongside an intriguing gaze from Absolem himself at discerning it was Morgana, pursued by Yidhian afterward who looked to be playful before she stilled, and then looked embarrassed at them all while comprehending the situation.

Earlier, the two found some unusual treats, and with Morgana smelling them to be deemed safe… For only to be shrunk close to or precisely Alice's size before shrugging and playing a game up to this point.

Alice grabbed her head and blinked at seeing Morgana as she did to her with a tinged stare of gawking as she was soon rambling on in quickened words of apology before the female genie herself, helps her Mistress up while assisting her again by making the child stand next to her with apologetic words to them all yet her look was mainly to what she figured by his stare, was The Oracle of Underland. "Our apologies, as we agreed to play tag while scouring for Absolem as My Mistress here," to which Morgana playfully grimaced to inwardly amuse everyone alongside Alice while she got up and brushed off her dress when Yidhian gently patted the child's head, "Was very interested in hearing his tales."

"Indeed…" The Caterpillar told her while his gaze was varied between both the child and Alice from a small vision passing him by, "Perhaps some other influential time as we are readying to see the Oraculum that Sir Nivins has upon himself?" At the end of his statement though was what made both Morgana and Alice tilt their heads in wonder before the residents almost sweatdropped when he grabbed the scroll, it proceeded to leap here and there away from him as if it didn't want to be read at this minute.

"Hi." Morgana states while moving toward her and Alice finally distinguishing the child's accent, appeared somewhat relieved of her being or possibly from England, but was puzzled when she reached out a hand to her before dropping it with a why-like gape at her genie when she introduced her before she could, and was near them while gently patting her in place for indication, "This is Morgana Potter-Evergreen, as she's my Mistress and also prefers the name, Mary, then the other… Miss?" In the end, Yidhian questioned the blonde.

Blinking as they moved to the side from the group chasing the scroll itself past them, gently took the child's hand to shake it while glancing over the little girl curiously, and introducing herself, "Alice Kingsleigh."

They hid being surprised when the scroll leaped into Morgana's hands and Nivins gently had his paws out to which she reluctantly presented it to him.

He then placed it on a mushroom close by while uncurling the sides to open it, as both Alice and Morgana came over like the rest discerning the child was at this moment, safe, went next to Absolem who briefly nods in acceptance of her as they heard the White Rabbit tell them all, "The Oraculum: Being a Calendrical Compendium of Underland." Watching their gazes, primarily between both the child and Alice, he added, "It's a timeline depicting the major events of each day. Every day has a title and an illustration."

"It's a calendar." Alice states fairly impressed before they all turned to Absolem as he corrected the blonde woman, "Compendium. It tells of each day since the beginning." Morgana kept glancing at the Oraculum while marveling at the images mostly as Nivins nodded with a small motion before adding to explain more to them, and indicating to the images, "Today is Griblig Day in the time of the Red Queen." Both Alice and Morgana, however, were stunned to see them as they are, as an image.

"Show her the Frabjous Day." Absolem advised Nivins as he hastily nodded his head and scrolled within the object to said day as Tweedledee states to Alice to puzzle and turn to him, "Frabjous being the day you slay the Jabberwocky." Morgana saw the image though and was mixed at it while Alice spoke to the twin, "Sorry? Slay the… What?" It was then she too saw the image itself.

Like all the illustrated images within the Oraculum, it was moving. But this image showed that The Jabberwocky is close to a flying dinosaur with reptilian wings, scaled, long sharp-like claws, a pronged tail, slender, enormous, black-skinned, large winged, black-purple crested, and spiny-tailed drake or dragon.

It, the drake, unexpectedly hisses within the image before a Knight was then revealed with long blonde hair in chainmail emerged to be fighting him with a shining sword of sorts.

"That being you there with the Vorpal Sword." Tweedledum tells Alice before Tweedledee said in continuation, "No other swords can kill the Jabberwocky. Nohow." Tweedledum added with Morgana seeing Alice seemed to be shaken up at this, "If it ain't Vorpal, it ain't dead."

It was then they saw it was indeed and unmistakably Alice, with bloodlust within her eyes from the image continuing before they were perplexed with Morgana not seeing Yidhian looking at Absolem when she saw her blocking her blade to kill the beast and taking the blow with not only Xal'atath as her weapon before it shifted to one where she was holding Morgana within her arms near the ruins in tears as a figure that was hazed yet shown as well merely stood by them, and one other image to where they were with the Dragon alongside Morgana being alive were accordingly facing against something not seen at all before by the residents of Underland, and the creature or thing was wholly hazed from showing… And something close to Morgana screaming with bizarre energy around her frame from seeing Koneko in an image, on the ground in tatters and wounds alongside the image blurred out as if it was a bright flash at Morgana's spot, and lastly, two blurry drakes facing each other with Alice and few others aiding the one blurred dragon with glowing emerald eyes.

Alice then backed away from the scroll with having varied emotions of doubt, being shocked, and above all else was showing signs of mixed hesitation and fear at the image while looking at them all and stating, in an unsure way, and Morgana disagreeing wordlessly while disturbed a few her roles, "That's not me."

"I know!" Mally exclaimed to the blonde young woman in agreement while heading over to Morgana as she looked troubled while still staring at the image as she thought she saw the very Jabberwocky, when the image returned to the beginning, was grinning at her and blinked at her before seeing the image was back to the way it was.

Nivins was disturbed internally by this, however, and turned to Absolem in question, "Resolve this for us, Absolem. Is she the right Alice?" The blue caterpillar looks Alice in the eye when she gazed at him, like the others, and saw something they didn't before responding as Yidhian went over to Morgana to comfort her after sensing her signs of distress and moved her away from the scroll, "Not Hardly." He then blows smoke, obliterating himself from their view.

It was then Morgana shook her head and turned as she saw the others ganging up on Alice as she was backing up, and heard their words to her.

"I told you!" Mally tells Nivins as he only looked troubled while the twins argued with each other about her as Morgana jumped while reluctantly following them with Yidhian behind her when the few flowers called her an "Imposter Alice". "I was so certain of you." Nivins proclaimed as the others glared at her before blinking and hastily dived downwards like Alice did, as Morgana sneezed once again a lightning bolt that bounced all over the land before hitting an unfortunate Ace of Spades General Card that got through few others attention.

"I'm sorry. I don't mean to be the wrong Alice." Alice tells them before they saw her gain a realizing glance and told them then, "Wait, this is my dream. I'm going to wake up now and you'll all disappear." Morgana saw Yidhian sense something and blinked as she smiled small while accepting the cookies and cream candy bar she made for them both by her genie magic and bit on it while watching Alice scrunch up her eyes while confusing everyone and pinching herself. She opens them again to only see that the animals are still there. "That's curious." She pinches herself again. The animals and twins simply just stare at her. "Pinching usually does the trick."

"I could stick you if that would help," Mally suggested as she pulled a long sharp hat pin from her scabbard. Alice, not understanding any better, however, merely smiled and said in a grateful tone as Mally approached her, "It might actually. Thank you." Morgana hides a wince as she doesn't hear what Mally told her while the Dormouse stabs her in the ankle with relish, and Alice indeed yelps in small shock… But for only that to be unheard by them all when a thunderous roar was heard around them.

Without indication, the nearby old wall close to them all smashed over itself as a beast of sorts came through while roaring at them with a gaze.

It is a jaguar-like creature. It is large, with a barrel chest and fore-paws that are quite dexterous. It's covered in shaggy white fur with dark gray spots, and has a somewhat flat (but not pug) face, with a wide mouth that has multiple rows of sharp teeth and a long tongue. She also has a long tail.

"Bandersnatch!" Tweedledee shouts in alarm to everyone while Morgana shouts in surprise as Yidhian picked her up and effortlessly began running with everyone away from large, armor-clad, red playing cards as all of the same suit (hearts) that began, at the same time, we're rounding up or trying to of everyone else's unfortunate fate to be captured.

Yidhian was easily following Alice in pace while Morgana was worried about the others except she soon clasped her ears from the Bandersnatch roaring and began resuming the hunt for them.

They were far ahead of the beast before Yidhian tripped over herself while noticing she was not holding Morgana anymore, and darting back in utter alarm when she saw the child heading over to Alice that stopped as if she recognized something once again as at her position, she stated to herself in growing determination, "Wait. It's only a dream. Nothing can hurt me." She turns around to face it before glancing at Morgana who was trying to pull her out of harm's way, which she ignored while staring straight on at the incoming beast.

She muttered a few words to herself before the Bandersnatch halted its steps and decided to roar at them both loudly and their hair flowing within the roar as some spittle was added into the mix of it trying to intimidate them, and Morgana heard her dagger within her curse at her to move before they saw Mally was on top of the beasts head as it was about to devour them… For her to stab its right eye and pull its eyeball.

The Bandersnatch immediately howls in surprised pain and words in Beast Tongue that Morgana didn't want to repeat, and whips around while raking Alice's arm with its long claws before she is grabbed and the three resume running.

As they did, a figure that was leading the charge of this capturing reached down and picks up the abandoned Oraculum. He looked grim with hints of wonder as well when he saw the image before closing it up.

He is a tall and slender man with black hair, a heart-shaped eyepatch in the left eye and a scarred face, black armor with black gloves, a red cape, and boots.

This is the assassin to the Red Queen of Hearts and is titled the Knave of Hearts or Ilosovic Stayne.

He tucks the scroll into his saddle bag and hastily rides away with some soldiers following him on foot while others begin looking for others while not seeing a pair of calculating eyes hidden in plain sight, vanished, and went to report what it witnessed.

Meanwhile, the twins managed to follow behind them and they ended up near an odd tree all by itself, but it diverged in two directions. The first road sign points South to "SNUD" and the other to the East to "QUEAST".

"This way! East to Queast!" Tweedledum promptly tells them while pulling Alice to which the other disagreed while advising them then while suggesting to the other direction, "No, South to Snud!"

It was then they pulled her back and forth with Alice looking on helplessly as Morgana sighed while Yidhian was about to say something to the twins before they all looked up, and saw a strange bird screech at them all. It has a large crest, stubby, broad wings, and seems to be a very primitive bird, without teeth in the beak, but it has a well-developed blue tongue as well as a beak, and long legs that resemble those of a theropod dinosaur or about a vulture. Its plumage is heavily striped like a zebra (which may be used to confuse prey), and it has a long neck and large red eyes. Contrasting its long legs and neck, and has a relatively short tail.

Morgana was fairly surprised at seeing this rare existing bird in Underland as she only saw the cartoon version of the franchise and hints of recalling this version, and Yidhian ducked with the child as Alice was freed when it took the twins and flew off.

The three, at this point, decided to take a random direction as Morgana oddly shivered for some reason she sensed something unexpected occurred far away from where they were, and ended up back within the main part of the Tuggly Woods a few hours later as night was coming and the genie knew she would be trekking tonight with the child and Victorian young woman within the woods.

Alice stops to peer at the gashes on her arm and this makes both the child and genie stop as well since Morgana wanted to walk, and the two elders did so out of reluctance while Yidhian didn't feel threatened by Alice when the young woman held the child's hand. "It looks like you fled afoul of something with wicked claws." A familiar voice that Alice saw Morgana appeared perky about and was looking everywhere, like she was, to amuse the genie herself as Morgana unknowingly touched her one arm and discreetly shivered as some of the venoms from her slash marks, leaked, and got absorbed into her skin.

Alice wasn't prepared to see the grinning, floating head of Chessur at all materialize as she sighed while telling herself, and making Morgana be puzzled by what she meant, out of annoyance, "And I'm still dreaming!" And his response was to ignore that but glancing at her arm, "What did that to you?" Alice was then thinking of the name to not see worry show in a brief moment on Chessur's face, "Banner or Bander-" "The Bandersnatch? I'd better have a look." He vanished then before reappearing as his entire self while he is all calm, casual sensuality with a seductive grin while inspecting the wound, then tries to lick it to have Alice move away in bewilderment, "What are you doing?"

"It needs to be purified by someone with evaporating skills or it will fester and putrefy," Chessur told her in a matter-of-fact tone to have Alice instantly decide and not see the small worry dwell within the cat himself, or even Morgana with Yidhian sighing at recognizing her stare of concern to realize one thing: She already considered Alice as a friend.

"I'll be fine as soon as I wake up." Alice notifies him as she nonetheless speculated that this was all a dream, despite the fact the pain and whatnot felt real. "At least let me bind it for you." He sighed while giving a grateful look to Morgana as she gave him the spare one she took from the March Hare's Home, and to bind the wound. "What do you call yourself?" He inquired curiously as he finished tying the item on her arm and when she stayed her first name, "The Alice?" Alice was annoyed once again and stated to herself, "I'm not going into that again!" Chessur shrugged indifferently while replying to her, "I never get involved in politics. You'd best be on your way."

"What way? All I want to do is wake up from this dream!" Alice cried out to him as his eyes glinted in immediate, remembering humor before he concluded while observing that the land was deciding to be difficult and rearrange itself as this forest at times, tends to discreetly anticipate to confuse travelers, "Alright. I'll take you to the Hare and the Hatter. But that's the end of it..." he paused before glancing at Morgana to make her tingle and Alice to be perplexed by what he meant, "You're Feline has been troubled ill alongside your friend, Little One. I'm sure you're going to have an earful when we get there."

He then vanished to make Alice appear lost for a few moments before she looked around. He then reappears ahead and remarks something Morgana for once couldn't hear as they followed him and sooner than they anticipated while Morgana was carried as she was collapsed into a gentle sleep, came back to the March Hare Residence.

The Hatter sees Alice while awakening Thackery and Koneko, as Dani has passed out at the table as well, and with Mally in her tea kettle, he bolts upright. He brightens, and his clothes even perk up. Transfixed, he moves towards her, the quickest route being across the top of the table. He comes close, studying her intently. "It's you." He states in immediate happiness.

"No, it's not. McTwisp brought us the wrong Alice." Mally states while glancing sheepishly from the immediate glare coming from Yidhian while Morgana stirred before going back to sleep, before doing the same to the March Hare by his quickened yet audible words and being fidgety, and also pulling his ears, "It's the wrong Alice?!" The Hatter differed with Alice staring at him weirdly, "It's Alice. You're absolutely Alice! I'd know you anywhere. I'd know him anywhere."

While Yidhian sat next to the relaxed Nekotama, as of now, and also waking Dani up from the Hatter's stomping on the table, he takes her hand and pulls her back over the top of the table. Alice, in turn to this, tries not to step on any teacups. "Well, as you can see we're still having tea. It's all because I was obliged to kill time waiting for your return. You're late, you know... Naughty. Well anyway, time became quite offended and stopped altogether. Not a tick ever since." He then plunks her down in the chair next to his.

"Time can be funny in dreams." Alice tells him to which he nodded shortly, "Yes yes, of course. But now you are back, you see, and we need to get to the Frabjous Day. I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M…" he paused before he whispered to her then, "Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?" He paused again before she could try and respond to that, and even made the three girls beside Morgana lend him a glance for by his words as Cheshire was pouring himself a cup of tea and joined the table at the other side, "Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid!" Hare, Hatter, and Dormouse clasp their hands high at the end of his words.

"Sorry?" Alice appointed to inquire as she was confused before she glanced at Chessur casually stirring his tea while tossing the spoon to the side in an answered response, "'Down with the Bloody Big Head', meaning 'Bloody Big Head' is the Red Queen."

"Come, come. We simply must commence with the slaying and such (to time). Therefore, it's high time for time to forgive and forget. Or forget and forgive, whichever comes first. Or, is in any case, most convenient. I'm waiting." Tarrant states while pulling a watch from his pockets and glancing at it dangling, and the same to the March Hare as well before he dipped his inside a tea kettle to entertain Dani a little at this, which Alice was given a look of later by Yidhian as she was quietly notifying the Nekotama what went down as they talked.

Chessur puts his teacup down with disdain and states to them, "All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea." The Hatter sensing the Cheshire Cat's tone reacted back in retort to which Chessur sharply glimpsed at him before acting irregular and the girls sensed something unpredictable transpired between the two, "The entire world is falling to ruin and poor Chessur's off his tea." Chessur then remarks calmly to make the Hatter grow slowly furious, "What happened that day was not my fault."

Unexpectedly infuriated, Tarrant slams both of his hands on the table and almost wakes Morgana with both the Nekotama and genie inwardly appreciative to how at times she tends to sleep deeply and at times not, as cups and teapots go flying, and declares with overshadowed orbs, "You ran out on them to save your skin! You guddler's scuttish pilgar lickering…" Alice was confused when Chessur materialized beside her and covered her ears briefly before returning to his seat while the March Hare was instantly covering Dani's to know he may be saying bad things, and indeed he was cursing... But he keeps cursing faster and faster to the point he can't stop himself. "Shukem juggling sluking ur-pals. Bar lom muck egg brimni-" "Hatter!" Mally shouts while snapping him out of his rage immediately as he was near Chessur who gazed like he was kicked, "Thank you. I'm fine."

Chessur sensing the child was awake yet was for once convinced she was passed out got another spoon, and stirred his tea while remarking to the Hatter as he looked to be reminiscing, "What's wrong with you, Tarrant? You used to be the life of the party. You used to do the best Futterwacken in all of Witzend."

Partially disturbed by Hatter's swearing before being distracted by what Chessur meant, she asked aloud to herself, "Futter...?" "It's a dance." Mally simply tells her and the other girls with a recollection in her eyes before they turned to see him walk back to his seat and stated in a way he disheartens the ones that knew it, "On the Frabjous Day, when the White Queen once again wears the crown, again. On that day, I'll Futterwacken... Vigorously." Then when he sat back down, both Chessur and Tarrant glared at each other like estranged brothers.

Without indication, and to make Morgana wake up as she was going to go back to sleep, they all heard a horse neighing aloud behind Chessur.

It was both the Knave of Hearts and Co...

Mally taps the March Hare on her shoulder with Yidhian sensing the distress from Morgana, took a baffled Dani, and before she could retort, took her as a duo into the ring with Morgana landing on Koneko's lap while then staring sheepishly. "What?" He dumbly raised a question before Mally hushedly told him, "The Knave! Hide her! Them!" At this point, Chessur vanished while Tarrant grasped the situation and was glad earlier the other day Morgana's magic acted upon oddly enough, making three particular bottles, and grabbing them from his pockets.

"Drink this." He tells them with Alice looking to be repulsed by it while Koneko took the bottle and swallowed it alongside Morgana's being out of uncertainty by the smell alone, "Oh no…" Alice began before they forced it down her throat as all three ended up shrinking to have them be the same size as they would be except for Alice was around six inches tall (if that helps).

They then shove her into a nearby teapot and cram her now overly large clothes in behind her along with the other two. The Hatter hastily closes the lid to it and explains to them in brief words, "Mind your heads, it's dim inside, except for a stream of light from the spout." The Hatter does a headstand in his chair to act casual as does the Dormouse as she climbs into a soup tureen, and The Hare lays on the table. Following his nose, a bloodhound leads Stayne and two Red Knights into the area.

"Well, if it's not my favorite trio of lunatics." Ilosovic comments to the three with the March Hare expressing to him rudely, and throws a teacup at them, "You're late for tea!" Ilosovic easily crouches before he then casually walks around the table and heads over to Hatter while questioning them, and the bloodhound sniffing at the table as well, "We're looking for the girl called Alice."

"Speaking of the Queen… Here's a song we sang at her soiree." Hatter remarked randomly before they sang a song or tried to that Morgana knew was from the classic cartoon version before Ilosovic grabs the Hatter by his neck and the few Knights began cracking Thackery with his weapon and yet the three continued to sing, despite being hit, choked, or worse to which at this point, Alice was mixed with glimpsing the Catgirl comfort Morgana with a stern gaze to which she quickly looked away.

The Bloodhound puts its paws on the table, sniffing Alice's teapot as the Hatter takes a chance while seeing the Knave of Hearts was distracted by the others. He then whispers to the male dog to make him stop while confidentially motioning to the teapot, "Downal wyth Bloody Behg Hid." The Bloodhound, Bayard, drops to the ground and sniffs, pretending to catch a new trail.

"Follow the Bloodhound." Ilosovic decrees to the Knights as they did so since he was about to leave yet he wavered before commenting to them, "You're all mad." Their response was to only laugh hysterically.

When he was gone, however, they stopped laughing except Hatter's goes on… And on- "Hatter!" Mally once again shouts to make him regain his senses as he responded with 'I'm fine', before he lifts the teapot lid, but closes it quickly after seeing something to perplex his comrades as inside, Morgana's eyes were being covered by Koneko with a blushing Alice inside of it by her covering herself once again.

"Sorry... One moment…" he takes a pair of milliner's scissors he tends to keep within his pocket and rapidly whips up a miniature ensemble for Alice out of the tea cozy, a doily, and also a swatch of her old dress. He then lifts the lid again and hands it to her. "Try this on for size." He closes the lid again to give her privacy as Alice admired it yet changed in a moment outside the kettle, there's a tiny knock on the lid. He opens it and helps her out in her remade clothes alongside the other two while figuring from his mixed mind, that the child's magic prevented their own from falling into Alice's fate for that. "Hum... Sorry, it's the best I could do I'm afraid... Not half bad." He briefly inspected her outfit, secretly, bringing a small smile to her lips as she watched him get the other two girls out of the kettle.

"Good thing the Bloodhound is one of us or you'd be…" Mally tells her to get the three girl's attention while Morgana gulps when Mally then maneuvered her finger across her throat ominously, and Koneko personally glares at the Dormouse from feeling the wariness of her Mate, by the female rodent's words.

"Best take them to Marmoreal. She'll be safe with the White Queen alongside those four." Thackery fidgety comments to Tarrant as Alice then asks him while curious, "Can she help me wake up?" He sighed internally to that before telling her, "If she doesn't put you to sleep."

He sweeps his hat off and puts it on the table. "Your carriage, m' lady's." Koneko carefully led Morgana onto the hat while Alice gestured to it her thinking it was a joke, "The hat?" Tarrant although amused by her tone before he remarked kindly to her, "Anyone can go by horse or rail. But the absolute best way to travel is by Hat. Oooh... I've just made a rhyme." He told the others as they giggled at that.

"Oh! I love traveling by hat." Mally states as Alice sits on it, nervous and unsure, of the hat itself while Koneko was making sure Morgana was safe before herself. "Sorry, Mally... Just Alice and the two girls." Mally huffed to this as he picked up the hat while Alice was puzzled why Morgana's tail kept her in place and began leaving the area with The Dormouse watching in resentment before the March Hare tossed a teacup at them, "But you haven't had your tea!"

The Hatter effortlessly avoids the teacup while saying bye to them and minding their heads, as he kept dodging the teacups while putting the hat on.

As they went through the woods, and Alice hung on tight from the Hatter walking at a jaunty pace, Morgana eavesdropped alongside Koneko by his words. "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."

Alice manages to move carefully and then hops onto his left shoulder with Morgana and Koneko staying on the hat as she asks him, curiously, "Sorry? What was that?" He glanced at her while being careful to not knock down the two girls above, "What was what?" Morgana had a gut-like suspicion by his next set of words that he was privately speaking of something personal then to them all, as she and Koneko listened with Alice also paying rapt attention to his words, "The Jabberwock with eyes of flame. The jaws that bite. The claws that catch. Beware of the Jabberwock, my son. And the frumious Bandersnatch. He took his vorpal sword in hand. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack. He left it dead, and with its head. And he went galumphing back." He was staring forward when he spoke these words before glancing at Alice and adding, "It's all about you, you know."

"I'm not slaying anything. I don't slay. So put it out of your mind." Alice warned him to which he almost nodded yet held back at recalling the two on his hat and mumbled, "Mmm… Mind." He then gently snatches her and unexpectedly drops her on a stump and walks on. She then quickly follows. "Wait. You can't leave me here!" He ignored that yet stopped before he turned to her while grabbing the two girls and placing them next to her, also mimicking Alice's words as well, "You 'Don't slay'. You don't slay... Do you have any idea what the Red Queen has done?"

"I couldn't if I wanted to." Alice then tells him with honesty as Morgana was about to open her mouth to say something yet eyed at the Nekotama when she gently grabbed her shoulder and shook her head with a wordless gaze of no, and merely watched.

"You're not the same as you were before." Tarrant accuses her before continuing his words while heading over to her, "You were much more… Much more muchier… You've lost your muchness." Perplexed by what he meant, she asked in confusion, "My muchness?" He then gently pokes her stomach with his finger as he resumes his words, "Something's missing."

Alice frowned and was going to ask yet turned while blinking in small surprise, as Morgana stole her own words she was going to ask, "Can you tell us what the Red Queen has done, Mr. Hatter?"

"It's not a pretty story." He informed the child while his gaze was mainly right at Alice to understand he was adding her into the mix and Alice felt growing guilt from seeing his face while staring at him, and stated then, "Tell me anyway." He certainly heard the sincerity in her voice before he picks her and the two girls up plunks her back on his left shoulder with the others on his right and pushes through the foliage, which soon becomes blackened and twisted.

They then come to a place where the ground is scorched and barren and place the three on another stump, but this time, it was burnt with age. Also, there were hints and signs of burnt homes and whatnot, shown.

His voice then goes hoarse with emotion, Morgana, and the two females distinguished, as he begins the tale. "It was here… I was The Hatter to the Queen- The White Queen at the time. The Hightopp Clan have always been employed at court."


Flashback Begins, on The Horunvendush Day, Witzend Village


The Hatter, Tarrant, stands with his Clan: The Hightopps.

Everyone from adults and also children, wear particular top hats similar yet different from his as the mood is festive.

The White Queen sits on her white horse with other members of her court, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Cheshire Cat.

To remark the White Queen, she is a slender, beautiful, pale-skinned woman with dark eyebrows, long wavy platinum blonde hair, brown eyes, both crimson lipstick and nail polish, a white dress with lace ruffles, white pearl jewelry, a silver-white crown with blue gems, white lace-up short high heel boots. If you would describe her, she would be Anne Hathaway's doppelgänger, in bodily looks.

The White Knight (to who wore his Pegasus Helm and Armor of pure white metal) holds the shining Vorpal Sword as everyone was having recreation and being merry…. Before the woods turned dark as vast leathery wings blocked the sun. Faces from everyone then fill with awe as they watch the fearsome creature. The White Knight, astonished by its magnitude, nearly drops the sword before readying to fight as panic then ensues from the beast roaring at them all.

People then run as the Jabberwocky starts shooting fire at them while The Queen's horse rears in fright. The Hatter, seeing this, quickly grabs the reins and leads her to safety. He looks back.

The White Rabbit assists others to escape as The March Hare looks up, alarmed into paralysis before being dragged away while The Cheshire Cat hovers near the Hightopp Clan, who stand together to protect the children, but as the Jabberwocky comes down upon them... the Cat vanishes.

The Knave in all the turmoil, picks up the fallen sword, the White Knight that was burnt to cinders, dropped, and he lifts it victoriously and the Jabberwocky with a glint within those eyes has retreated.

A moment later, Tarrant returns to the scene, and his face is compressed with shock and horror at the area where his clan held their stand as the earth still signified smoldering ash and flame.

The only burned and trampled hat remains to which his heart comes to be dreaded and sad as he tosses his hat away, picks up the burned one, brushes the soot off, and places it firmly on his head.

While he left, he didn't notice a cloaked figure come out while holding with sad eyes, a crystalline red gem of the only one with pure potential, and as to be dubbed as the only survivor from the dragon's flame and vanished into a dark mist. Or even specific individuals not seeing the figure either, carrying to what appeared to be a mobile ant farm.


Flashback Ends, Present


Alice is deeply moved by seeing Morgana shedding a few tears which are untouched by all, causing a small ripple of green to show and spread throughout the land, and catching attention from certain others as a flower confidentially bloomed in a composition of a star, growing behind the stump itself as the Nekotama held her Mate to reassure her.

Alice, although, looks up at the scorched hat Tarrant still wears, then to his tormented face that she discerns instantly as he twitches, driven to the verge of madness by guilt, helpless rage, and deep loss. "Hatter? Hatter!" She cried out while secretly startling Morgana back to normal alongside him, jerked him back from the abyss of despair, and merely responded to her, "I'm fine. Just fine Really." Alice was indifferent as she remarked back in concern, "Are you?"

The Hatter was about to answer back but he stilled to confuse them before Morgana saw Koneko's ears twitch as she too heard the same thing, "Did you hear that? I'm certain I heard something."

Alice saw how cautious the two younger girls before her were, and still states nervously to him while within Morgana's ring, Yidhian was reassuring Dani of the sentiment they would be fine, and Koneko gently clutching Morgana in case of needing to flee. "Voices?" Despite hearing her aimed question at him, Tarrant glances back at the dark woods… "Red Knights!" He proclaimed as the three heard the bay of the bloodhound.

Without warning, he then hastily placed the girls into his larger breast pocket of his outfit before sprinting, and to the point of dusk within the woods themselves, he dodges trees while also leaping over stumps as he glimpses the edge of the woods ahead… But there's a flash of red through the trees as he turns to reveal a Red Knight.

The Hatter turns the other way, only to see another Red Knight and then even more to realize one thing: They're surrounded.

Morgana was growing uncertain that Koneko saw as she didn't flinch from her Mate gripping without noticing, and inwardly thanking herself that she wasn't a normal Nekotama to the point it would have broken her arm as Alice too, was anxious about this situation.

Tarrant eyed them warily, and he then whispered audible enough to Alice, mainly, as Morgana overheard the instructions he gave the blonde woman. "Go south to Grampas Bluffs. The White Queen's castle is just beyond." The Hatter sweeps his hat off as if in a conciliatory indication to the approaching Knights before he continued while mentioning the other two, "Jump on the hat. Now." She takes a leap onto the Hat along with both Morgana and a clingy Koneko as The Hatter flings his arms wide, sending the hat and the three girls sailing over the treetops. "DOWN WITH THE BLOODY RED QUEEN!" Tarrant declares to the Red Knights as they clung to the brim of the Hatter's Hat as it sails out of the woods.

At the edge of the woods itself, The Hat lands in the soft grass as Alice looks back at the forest, and then south toward gently rolling hills. It's starting to get dark and there are strange night sounds out there seeing the two girls, she slips under the relative safety of the hat for the night followed by Morgana and Koneko.

It was an uncomfortable silence between the three before Morgana sneezed as in the center, a small enough campfire of her flames appeared to astonish the blonde woman with Koneko holding the child close to her before they glanced at her ring and with a poof of smoke, Yidhian materialized with Dani as she coughed before grimacing right at the Djinn, "Warn me next time you take me into there."

Morgana smiles small at Dani from that before gazing at Alice and making the dazed young woman blink and looks at her as she ignores Yidhian conjuring actual food for them all to eat, and blankets, "You ok, Miss Alice?"

"Yes… Well, no." Alice confessed to not only the child but to the others, as Yidhian was observant while serving them food as Alice was hiding her half-puzzlement for as it was oddly enough, specifically conjured cheeseburgers and steak fries, "I cannot fathom this dream at all. I have a feeling that this seems familiar to me, but at the same time, I hardly recall them," here she paused before she motioned to the hat, "Well, this dream I guess I recall."

Morgana saw Yidhian and Koneko's gaze on her wordlessly telling her to not say a word of the truth, and was confused by her curious question to which her face showed minor amusement when Morgana scowled when her tail whacked her head a few times before gently catching it, "You're possibly from Great Britain, correct?" The child nodded slightly while holding her tail still before she looked away to think about her true question, "Where you hail from then, Mary?"

Alice was starting to be concerned as despite the way Morgana appeared to be in looks, she could easily tell she was a child of sorts but didn't know what race she was as Morgana quietly answered to somewhat relieve the blonde then, "I used to live in Surrey, England, Miss Alice." Alice nodded as she hesitates yet accepts the offered food on the marble plates Yidhian provided for them all from within her ring, "Ah, the Southern part of Great Britain… Sadly, I have never been there."

Dani was partly relieved of noticing Morgana starting to open up to Alice while she sat with Yidhian and Koneko while chewing her burger she was also glad that didn't have pickles in it and swallowed while saying and, at the same time, watching the two Britain's talk amongst themselves, "I never actually thought I get to see a so-called fictional character at all… Boy, would Max be jealous?"

"All elder siblings are envious if they're not included in important things at times, but they tend to be there for when it counts." Yidhian elected to advise Dani while she hinted to the Nekotama with a brief, knowing gaze as Koneko turned away from her at that before they saw Morgana yawn cutely and looked sleepy alongside Dani, ten minutes later.

"It seems we all need some rest if we are to regain what strength we need to travel ahead," Yidhian advised them all with Alice reluctantly agreeing as they heard strange noises outside the hat itself earlier, and made Morgana tiredly pout as Dani hid a startled yelp alongside the Nekotama as the three poofed right into the ring.

Alice sighed while blinking at discovering two blankets materialized in both hers and Morgana's favorite colors as the others vanished, before scooting next to the child and falling asleep.


Concealed Location within Crims, Underland, or better known as the outskirts within the land of the Salazen Grum Castle:

Unseen within the land was a man-forced cavern that was home to an entity that was currently aware of the green energy it felt, and also realized that the same energy was felt to select others within Underland itself.

Inside was treasured galore of winning battles and whatever this treasure horde could hold, and on top was the figure itself, deeply thinking. The cave itself also held bones and whatnot of wild game and others it hunted for either sport or its meal against parts of the chamber walls made of dark slate and limestone.

This was the lair of the Jabberwocky.

The Jabberwocky snorted to itself as it tends to keep its gender hidden from others, and turned after hearing footsteps walking into its cavern while beholding it was a cloaked figure that wore armor yet it was too hard to tell, and by the voice, the individual remarked, was a male. "So… You sensed her as well then?"

"Indeed… I have felt the energy and it is indeed the child I have been sensing only now besides you, the one that would make things rather interesting, Warrior." The Jabberwocky replied in a way, the drake itself held hidden emotions in it, and swishes its tail back and forth while adjusting its wings before giving a compelling look at the man before it to which it only heard a small yet brief chuckle at the end of its words, "What is she to you, Warrior? As my one of two foes is currently held as a prisoner, and the White Knight burnt by my flames to what he had done so long ago to me, against my own will."

"More than you could visualize, Dragon. As you know the one prophecy placed between you and Alice was forced, but the truth for mixed peace within Underland is underway…" And more to which cannot be revealed. The man added to himself.

The Jabberwocky, however, snorted out small traces of smoke from its nostrils at this in small irritation to only cause the man to hide a smile underneath his hood, "You and your cryptic sayings, Warrior… Perhaps you would clarify the meaning then?"

"In due course as if I speak of what is to pass, then you, too, will be over-prepared for the eventual outcome of things as yes, I can tell you there will be a small yet brief war on the Frabjous Day… But to expect more than it seems to be, that is the direct question itself we all, particularly you of all, would ponder." The man cryptically told the dragon to hear it let out an irritable growl at him before maneuvering quickly and circling him within its large nest, and growled out with gleaming eyes, "Stop with the cryptic tongue! Explain to me what you mean by your words!"

It was then taken aback when the man chuckled as if he wasn't fazed by the dragon's display of a threat, but reached into his cloak and revealed a sky-blue crystal orb of sorts to stun the dragon itself by its mere existence. "The Orb of Dreams…" states in hidden awe with mixed feelings the man saw in the drake's eyes it has and nodded only once while channeling his energy into it and briefly told the dragon, "Yes. I keep this and many things upon my person, for reasons beyond your control… But if you are deemed to want to understand what I mean, then solely gaze into the sphere itself and see. Glimpse as to what the child's dreams are as she is dreaming as we speak."

Within the glowing sphere, it indeed showed Morgana, but barely in a way, it was quick to comprehend to the Jabberwocky itself as in several minutes and when it was finished, the dragon merely saw hints, not all, to what was foretold, and then demanded to him while he put it back into his cloak, "What is the meaning of this… Thing! This creature I saw within the sphere!"

"That is the consequence for things that cannot be explained at this time, but you perceive by forgotten memories you kept at bay, what it is." The man states to it knowingly and while making the dragon be puzzled before glimpsing him place a similar gem from the massacre it caused long ago that he grabbed, and told it firmly in a way to follow it or else, "This gem not only holds secrets beyond your expectations but would be needed for the war to come. I will return in due time and perhaps look into what I believe is the culprit itself, of the vision the Orb of Dreams bestowed briefly upon your gaze."

The dragon shook its head while noticing him vanish into a strange mist and snorted, hesitated, and placed the gem into one of its loose scales as a pocket before glancing at the small hole in the ceiling of its cave to tell it was late and decided to sleep.