A few days later within the morning of the Frabjous Day, in Alice's offered room:

Alice sighed while uncomfortable within her bed as she truly didn't want to get up at all, as lately she recalled the other day of her waking up next to Tarrant and appreciated his feelings for her along with her doing the same, and barely recalled the rest of the night.

She got up while wearing a plain nightgown and glanced at the corner of her room to see Morgana and Dani, from sleeping over last night, trying to comfort her.

Morgana managed to make a very fast recovery with Zone-Tan and Yidhian stating they would come back eventually with aid, as within the White Queen's meeting room last night as well, a warning note was placed for the war to not take place, or all of Underland would suffer, but the White Queen herself sighed before placing it away for later.

Tarrant and the others, Alice soon recalled, were preparing for the eventual battle to take place, and sighed to herself in doubt while getting around and letting the two little ones sleep… But rushing to the bathroom this place has and shortly puked by luck into the toilet provided before doing so.

Koneko soon came into the room with Alice getting used to the Nekotama as she saw the state of things and didn't say anything for a moment or two, and seeing the blonde's eyes having shadows, stated to her quietly so she wouldn't wake up her Mate and friend, "Nightmares?"

Alice turned to her yet sighed as she nodded and was given a comb the Nekotama gave her as she was soon brushing her hair, as this point, Alice realized that she was in an out-of-body-based dream (which Morgana tried and failed to prove her wrong), and figured that was why she could eat, sleep, and more. "Yes… Lately, they have been getting worse and worse than ever these past few nights of someone similar to me, and that very blade fighting a hazed beast that's not the jabberwocky, fight, and cause their devastation to one another."

Koneko was silent for a few moments before Alice was rather surprised by her next choice of words as if, she experienced things that were not of what she imagined, and gazed at her observing the Nekotama's stare at Morgana's position in the room, outside the bathroom, "Dreams tend to be forgotten or kept memories at times of yourself or others. Some are pleasant, and some you wish you could forget… Except for that, they are the memories that make you for who you are."

"You had a hard life I take it?" Alice asked softly while placing her brush down to the Nekotama as she didn't see her unconsciously grabbing her left arm that hid a secret she has yet to reveal to her Mate, and mutely nodded in confirmation as in secret, she was also part of something that not even her King and allies knew before she was found by Rias, as she escaped from them by time-placed means from someone else she knew, was possibly long gone and dead at this point.

Koneko was startled internally by getting an unexpected hug from Alice as she stiffened in place- "Well, well, well… Looks like the big bad Koneko is a tamed cat for blackmail." A voice suddenly started to get the two to sharply turn and saw it was not only the Nekotama's elder sibling, but Xion while wearing a different outfit with her strange futuristic version of a cell phone-like flip phone she was holding, took a picture of them.

She wore an off-white sleeveless floral shirt with black lace hem on the arms holes and collar, a black hoodie jacket with dark navy blue accents and pockets and silver buttons alongside a basic grey checkered pattern at the bottom, an X-based silvery necklace, a black belt with a silver buckle, a black miniskirt with two large side pockets with a grey plaid hem, low-heeled black boots with a grey checkered pattern on top and basic white short socks.

The reason for those two was that Xion and her were sucked into a shadowy vortex during an unfortunate encounter with their cloaked entities, and ended up landing, comically I might add during dinner a few days ago, on the March Hare when he was laughing his behind off from a prank he pulled on Dani.

Koneko was inwardly glad she held back a blush while shoving herself away from Alice, and patted herself down and with Alice still not understanding what that Xion had, still, as the teen placed it away, and gestured to where the two sleepyheads were and notified them quietly after realizing the two girls were still out, "We were sent to get you guys up mostly, and Kuroka here needs to chat to you about something." At the end of her words though she gave a pointed glance to the mentioned Nekotama.

Koneko frowned briefly to herself while regarding Morgana before her sister soon left her out into the halls as Xion did as she intended to help her little sister out, even though she secretly winced as her heart fluctuated for a moment without them seeing she stood in place, shook her head, and resumed her task.

"What is it that you want?" Koneko states from neutrality prompted her elder sister to which she sighed as despite them trying to make amends for the past deeds between them, things are still rocky as well. "I wanted to make sure you're taking your medicated sweets as of late… Since we all noticed your Mate is going through her cycles, you realize what you would regret probably doing."

Koneko huffed before crossing her arms and leaning on the nearby wall as she truly failed this time to hide her blush at what her elder sibling meant, and didn't see the amused gaze she had while realizing that she meant well for her sake, as she truly wanted to lay with her and more, but wanted to wait until Morgana was truly older than she currently was.

Koneko stiffened while being swerved to face her sister as she gazed at her sincerely and told her gently and with a hand to her face, "I know that we are still trying to see each other well, but I'm mostly concerned about you and how you would be in a situation that I was."

This rather surprised her as at seeing Koneko's look at her, Kuroka merely smiled small while holding back a small wince of a headache occurring as they shared a moment- "Look out!" A random voice states with the two moving away from each other from them equally blinking dumbly at beholding the March Hare having a carrying tray table race (IDK what they are called as they are used for hotels) with the two guards in a hasty hurry on their own.

"In honesty, I can never comprehend this place to be so lively at all… This Underland of being based on a book back home." Kuroka decided to admit with Koneko wordlessly agreeing with her elder sibling before she perked up to amuse her elder sibling once again by Morgana giggling as she was acting like a cat for a few moments and rubbing against her, blinked, and coughed awkwardly before soon adjusting herself.

Alice was amused as she witnessed it, and they were sooner than later within the dining hall and eating their breakfast.

After that, it was small training before a few hours later, they were doing their own thing with them letting Morgana be by herself, and she had Xal'atath out and was doing some harmless swings with her weapon in a few stances like Koneko showed her, and sighed.

"You are slowly improving, Little One." Xal'atath confesses to her Wielder, and Morgana smiled small as she was currently in the outskirts closely to the White Castle, and wiped some sweat off of her face and frowned, and if the dagger would have, she would have tinted by her stray comment as she adjusted herself before placing Xal'atath on a nearby bench so she could see her fully, "If my chest would stop slightly moving when I swing through, it would be better, and my back hurting along with some parts of my body."

"Well, you are growing still. So it's possibly expected, Maria." Xal'atath admits while advising her with her private nickname as she fully realized that the child was going through her race's growth spurt eventually once again, Morgana hid a wince as she stretched like both Xion and Koneko suggested for a moment or two and wordlessly cringed and nodding back.

Morgana jumped in place with Xal'atath inwardly as they both soon heard a loud noise of what appeared to be large animals roughly fighting a few yards ahead of them, and Xal'atath sighed while she was grabbed before heading to where the noise was… And eventually had to dodge a stray blast of hot plasma fire of sorts along with ducking and shakily gazing to be amazed at what she was seeing: There was a dragon brawl.

What she didn't realize was that it was familiar to her alongside not, from a specific piece of old parchment, and two that were more devilish looking with black as night scales and red eyes that were half the size was overwhelming the larger dragon as it snapped its jaws at them once again at the two, and was forcibly landed on it's back as they both firmly grabbed its wings and looked like they were going to breathe flames onto the larger drake- "Hey! Leave that Dragon alone!" Morgana shouted to make all three swerve and with the larger being rather for once surprised at this outcome, as the three drakes saw Morgana had Xal'atath fully extended shakily to get the two smaller ones to shake their heads and somehow smirk at her.

She was soon blindsided with her dropping her weapon as a third one materialized out of nowhere, and sent her spiraling right into a rock with the larger drake hiding a wince as she went right into it upwards, as you would see within the snow mounds of the famous trio from Ice Age, and winced as she shakily got out of it.

Morgana held in a gasp as she was held in place by the third dragon as it hissed at her in cheek laughter as if it didn't deem her as a true threat while swishing its tail to the other two as those two drakes resumed wrestling with the larger dragon.

The child while struggling as her tail kept slapping the side of the dragon to which it wasn't amused, and startled her as during her struggle, her gems fell out of her pockets and were glowing dimly in unawareness of them both by the dragon speaking to her, "You pitiful excuse of a child, have no idea as to what you have become involved with! Now to end your interference so My Lord who returned us to life may have his way with this wretched land!"

The dragon made sure to keep Morgana held down firmly while opening its maw, and Morgana was in utter fear as a dark miasma of flames was slowly building within its jaws, and at that moment before it could happen to blast her to cinders, it was knocked back by a rather large beast of sorts after a large flash occurred from where the gemstones were.

The beast was a giant, pink jaguar with six legs, three tails, and a dark magenta fur stripe along her back. She possessed dark violet eyes though that were enraged and mainly focused on the dragon, as the two wrestled, Morgana stiffened when she was gently touched by another female that was checking her over.

The female has a heart-shaped face with a light skin tone, has spiky blond hair that has one particularly long spike, and her hair also has the spikes toned down. She also has blue wide-angular eyes, which glow at times, and a slim yet slender with a large bust (around an F-Cup). She was wearing a black turtle-neck-halter-style leotard, with a diamond cutaway showing off her impressive cleavage and a triangular one from just above her navel to her hips. Over it, she wore a brown utility belt and suspenders, with a pair of black chaps styled like cargo pants attached there, tucked into black combat boots. On her left arm, she wore a shoulder pauldron with rounded spikes and a matching metal bracer over white wrapping and a brown glove with black studs and silver fingers. Her right hand also had a glove, but it was just brown and fingerless, with a longer black one extending to her elbow under it.

Attached to her back though was a single-edged large blade approximately one foot wide, from the tip to the handle, it is approximately five to six feet long, with the blade being a lighter color on the bladed edge, while the rest of the blade is dark gray, and the handguard appears to be bolted or riveted into place. There are two holes near the handguard, variably said to be specific slots. In more detailed iterations, the handle is a reddish knurled material.

"You ok Kid?" The female soon questioned in hidden concern and with the child herself feeling calm by looking into the female's eyes, and wordlessly nodded once to get the blonde to soon nod sharply as she soon sharply eyed the situation at hand, "Good. Can you fight?"

Morgana blinked at her at that before showing her wordlessly Xal'atath that appeared in her hands to eventually make the blonde narrow her orbs at the weapon itself before helping Morgana up, and soon picked her up hastily as they just dodged a collision of the large cat and dragon, and finally getting the attention of the other two drakes.

The female managed to land gracefully on her feet and brought out her weapon with her free hand easily to get Morgana to go starry-eyed, as those who she owns as belongings merely rolled their eyes alongside the girl currently trapped within her, as the large panther maneuvered to the female's left side and instantly hissed at the dragons, and the larger drake one taking in deep breaths due to the first almost damaging its windpipe.

"We have no time with the interference of those who defile our Master's Will," the first drake states to them all firmly as the other two nodded, "For you shall suffer our wrath, and fall." The second stated in an equal tone to realize they were all female drakes, "And for interfering with the death of the one drake that was cursed upon this land to await the Owner to truly appear!" The third drake states in a tone that none of them liked as the larger dragon got up, and saw the three dragons unexpectedly glow a dark violet aura before shooting an equal amount of flames towards the sky…. And the flames themselves seemed alive as well before the three drakes vanished into plumes of smoke and swiftly left.

"It seems we are at a truce for now," the larger dragon tells them and regaining its breath as they all witnessed the flames were changed into a flaming dragon with the one sigil Morgana recognized once more showed clearly in a red sigil flame, and roared at them as the form was resembling close to an eastern drake with burning amber orbs.

The new foe soon charged right at them as the blonde while carrying Morgana still, effortlessly maneuvered the charging attack that they all saw left scorched earth behind its flight path on the grounded soil itself, and it swerved back up into the air and screeched at them all.

"You have a plan, Blondie?" The Jaguar asked in a female tone similar to Karen Fukuhara to the blonde female to which she soon rolled her orbs for, and sidestepped hastily a faster charging of the fiery drake before making the female beast sigh briefly at luckily catching Morgana who yelped by the blonde's actions of throwing her to it, by the female beast's tail, and placed a cyan-colored orb into her weapon before doing a wave-like slash that sent darting shots of pure water at the drake.

The fiery drake roared in surprised pain and was sharply glaring at the blonde woman, and screeched at her as Morgana blinked her eyes as a strange green bar via her sight, appeared unexpectedly above the drake's head with a title dubbed "Fiery Wrathful" above that, and a barrier soon covered the entire area around a mile or two's radius in a magenta color.

They all dodged when the Fiery Wrathful soon proceeded to shoot random blasts at them all and as it scorched the large jaguar if it wasn't for Morgana's natural shield acting up once again to protect the two, the blonde female didn't get time to ponder this as she was soon sent by it charging and swerving its tail at her into a few stray large rocks before blasting her with a large dark fireball.

Morgana was worried about what was going to happen to her before hiding another yelp as the beast made of flames shot into the sky unexpectedly and was soon under a magic shield spell by the blonde that, by sheer luck, covered them all as it began spraying dozens upon dozens of fiery darts of fire at everything except for them, and easily causing a fire to start, before hissing at the other dragon that shot lightning at it as they began to fight each other within the sky itself, and ceasing the onslaught of raining fire.

Once the shield was down, the blonde deadpanned to herself as Morgana shakily stood beside the large purple cat as the larger piles of flames sucked the lesser, and turned into elementals of flame with bronze wrist-cuffs, and glowing fiery green eyes.

"Damnit," was what the blonde woman noted in ire while soon getting into a stance as they were surrounded by the elementals and with Morgana feeling encouraging feelings from not only Xal'atath, but what she has with her that's sentient, and was soon defending themselves and was forced to separate from each other.

The large purple yet strange female jaguar was using her brute strength to easily send the fire-based creations away from her and holding winces of pain from feeling healing scorch marks going away, the blonde woman using her weapon in bizarre ways to easily defeat the mentioned elementals, and for Morgana… "Will you stop running from that Elemental and fight it already?!" Xal'atath stated in a way to Morgana as she managed to easily dodge blasts of fire left, right, and even below her, in irritation, as it was a large elemental chasing her in wicked glee.

The blonde woman defeated her last elemental before blinking at how flexible the child-like lizard was as she was at this point, irritating the fire elemental itself and didn't understand the why but took off after her as the large purple jaguar was defeating her last two by charging them into a large pond nearby, and Morgana was soon cornered with the elemental chuckling darkly and with Xal'atath aimed at it shakily, and blinked while making the blonde woman halt and blink equally in turn from her sending a beam of pure energy from herself, into Xal'atath, and passed into the elemental's right eye to quickly enrage it.

Morgana held herself in place as the background of dragons still fighting within the air occurred and braced herself to soon open an eye and blinked at seeing the blonde woman blocking effortlessly the burning swipe meant for her against her glowing, teal-colored broadsword.

"Great, another Hero Worship going on with my wielder." Was Xal'atath had to comment mainly to herself aloud with the blonde woman's sweat dropping only briefly at glimpsing Morgana's starry-eyed gaze, and shoved the fire elemental back a few feet before casting more darts of water from her broadsword.

It was at this bizarre moment that the Fiery Wrathful collided with the large fire elemental and several feet or so away from them all as both the jaguar and dragon were with both Morgana and the blonde woman and quickly became guarded as the Fiery Wrathful consumed the elemental with a gaping maw from it becoming an orb, and grew twice its size within moments before roaring at them with disinterest after becoming an aware drake, and fled with purposely causing an updraft to send Morgana with a few yells of everyone present, into a rock formation and knocked her out cold.


Several hours later, in the Courtyard of the White Queen's Castle:

Morgana recovered sooner than expected to everyone's shock and let her be, and the blonde woman named Claudia Strife: Younger Twin to Cloud Strife, was currently overseeing her position as Guardian Protector.

Claudia and the jaguar, or in terms, a girl in truth, didn't mention the dragon yet the others, they did, and everyone else knew that time was soon approaching for the eventual war to come, and it is why they were all in the courtyard.

To briefly mention the female jaguar's true look, she physically appeared as a young teenage human girl with pearly purple-colored skin, thin black eyebrows, pierced ears on the sides, and pink lavender hair in an undercut hairstyle (her side hair is cut short while the rest of her hair is still long), and dark fuchsia irises. She wore, however, an off-the-shoulder t-shirt featuring a tiny pale-cyan circle with a fuchsia ring around it on the upper left corner. The shirt is layered over a dark-purple tank-top with a biker jacket that states "H.M.U.F.A." on the back, and she donned as well dark-purple jeans and a pair of amaranth high-tops. She also possesses lime, cyan, orange, and black bracelets on her right wrist.

This was Kipo Oak, and her backstory is rather unfortunate, and let's just leave it at that, to become a gemstone as such.

Zone-Tan, at times and earlier that day, kept glancing at the Young Chaosarinian with a perplexing emotion while feeling a long-forgotten thumping within her heart, and for Kipo, she growled out protectively whenever someone commented on how the child herself looked or even, secretly, bad things that shouldn't be said along with holding the urge to not harm them.

Yidhian alongside Zone-Tan left them after what she conveyed was an eventual meeting with someone she knew, called her at last, and swore to come as soon as she can for the battle, and she took Dani with her to Morgana's worry about that but figured it was truly better for her friend, especially glimpsing a puppet of sorts following them.

As mentioned, to get back on track, everyone was in the courtyard and Alice knew what it was about: The naming of the White Queen's Champion.

The White Rabbit while still dressed as the page for the Red Queen, blew a trumpet he borrowed from a servant as his instrument got smashed earlier from antics of the March Hare this morning, and declared as behind him, were Alice, Morgana, and those who stood by her as mentioned. "Who will step forth to be Champion for the White Queen?"

In the courtyard were tons of folk that are not only servants of Mirana and civilians in Golden or full silvery silken clothing, was The Hatter and the others, and he stepped forward to make Alice, oddly enough, worry over, "That would be I!" Cheshire came out of nowhere while materializing and declared and also ignored Tarrant's brief look at him for, by his words, "You have very poor evaporating skills. I should be the one."

Soon the twins came from the crowd while Morgana noticed that Nivens was reaching into his outfit, "No, me!" Tweedledee declared as he pushed Dum behind him. "No, it's me!" Tweedledum declared right back and mainly everyone saw small lightning between both twins as they flared at each other at them.

The White Rabbit soon holds up the Oraculum and reveals the illustration of Alice slaying the Jabberwocky and everything else, and most new things that were blurred out to briefly perplex those that have witnessed it before as everyone falls quiet.

"If it ain't Alice, he ain't dead." Tweedledum points out in moments with his twin agreeing as well, as all eyes point to Alice mainly, "No other slayer, nohow."

Morgana and those with her saw Alice looked pressured at this moment, mixed with small fear and nervousness, by the gaze of the gazebo and crowd.

Mirana noticed this and gently told Alice to only strengthen the young blonde woman's resolve of anxiety further, "Alice, you cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours because when you step out to face that creature, you will step out alone." Before Morgana or anyone could stop her, and with Alice feeling overwhelmed, she ran.

Before Koneko or the others could stop her, Morgana took off after Alice with the Nekotama glancing at Claudia as she wordlessly shook her head 'No' at her to make her hesitate yet stayed put, like the others.

With Alice, several moments later, she arrived at the part of the Topiary Garden the White Castle has that was easily overseeing a large cliff side with many upon many randomized waterfalls, on a balcony, and was soon crying her eyes out from mixed emotions of anxiety and others she was perplexed over as she sat down on a garden bench, and millions of thoughts going through her head.

"Nothing was ever accomplished with tears." A voice told her to wipe her eyes and looked to see Absolem upside-down on a leaf and was spinning a chrysalis for himself. "Absolem? Why are you upside down?" Alice implored then to which he was irked by yet answers her question, in a tone to know he was also being sincere with her as well, "I've come to the end of this life."

"You're going to die?" She stated in a way he detected alarm in her tone, and corrected her while still spinning the silk needed for his cocoon, "Transform." The chrysalis begins to cover his body- "Don't go. I need your help. I don't know what to do!" Alice begged him then to realize what was going on.

"I can't help you if you don't even know who you are, stupid girl." Absolem told her by his gaze right to her eyes that soon hid a twinkle by her response to him, "I'm not stupid! My name is Alice. I live in London. I have a mother named Helen and a sister named Margaret. My father was Charles Kingsley. He had a vision that stretched halfway around the world and nothing ever stopped him. He would have liked it here…" it was here Alice was with revelation, "I'm his daughter. I'm Alice Kingsley."

"Alice At Last!" Absolem states in a mixed final with relief before perplexing her, "You were just as dimwitted the first time you were here. You called it Wonderland as I recall…" at the name, to Alice as she stated to herself, stirs a distant memory.

Her dream comes flooding back, or this point, sealed memories that were placed in the back of her mind.

She's Young Alice in Wonderland, Young Alice in the Room of Doors, with the Cheshire Cat, Young Alice at the Mad Tea party, Young Alice with the Red Queen and Playing Cards painting the roses red, and Young Alice with the Caterpillar.

"It wasn't a dream at all. It was a memory! This place is real! And so are you. And so is the Hatter." Her heart leaps at that last thought and realized that she had feelings for him, but was anxious about what he would say to her.

It was interrupted by Absolem reminding her as well as he was almost done with his cocoon, and giving her some last-headed advice, "And the Jabberwocky. Remember, the Vorpal Sword knows what it wants. All you have to do is hold on to it. Fairfarren, Alice… Perhaps, I will see you in another life, as there is more to the War to come than it seems." He disappears inside the shimmering green chrysalis, at last, to make Alice saddened by this, mixed with being perplexed by what he meant at the end.

The blonde woman jumped though when she felt a gentle touch on her shoulder and turned to see it was Morgana, and seeing the wordless look of sincere concern on her face, she only let out a small smile and hugged her as she saw the child noticed the cocoon, and soon pulled away from her and the child seeing Alice's decision, figured things then, "You going to be her Champion then?"

"Yes, and I think that today should be what we expected to happen," Alice gently told Morgana as the Young Chaosarinian nodded before she shivered to concern Alice, and she asked in her concern then as the child blinked in reply, "Are you alright?"

"Yes… Yes, I'm fine." Morgana told her as they got up and followed her back to the castle, and unseen by them was a familiar individual as he brandished his blade and vanished in black smoke before heading off to prepare things.

Equally, a familiar mist was there in some concealed bushes close by and took off with his idea in mind.


Meanwhile at Crims, an hour or so later, The Red Queen rides a black steed, with Ilosovic Stayne at her side, as he holds onto the black sanded jar.

Behind them, the Red Queen's Army marches steadily across the red desert.

The JubJub flies ahead as a monstrous winged shadow soars above.


Back at the White Castle, everyone has gathered just outside the castle walls.

They wait nervously for Alice to make her decision.

The Bandersnatch lopes out, a White Knight astride him, her blonde hair hanging down the back of the shining armor to realize it was Alice. She soon holds the Vorpal sword high.

Morgana split up with her from the inside of the castle as she was going to meet her friend thereafter she checked over something, and with Koneko and the others there with the crowd.

A rousing cheer rises, but the cheer fades as they feel a shadow pass overhead. "It's coming! Look up!" The March Hare tells everyone aloud but Alice is undaunted, and she tells them all loudly, "To the Tulgey Wood!"

As both sides were soon marching to the precise location where the War will start, Morgana was back at the same balcony and was wary with Xal'atath laying right next to her and overseeing the view of the waterfall and the sounds they made, and glanced to her weapon by her words to her then, "Why are we here then following the others to War? I have seen my fair share of it, Maria… You sense something is here, don't you?" At the end of her weapons realization, Morgana wordlessly nodded as she was observed when she stood on the center part of the bench itself.

Morgana squinted her eyes as the light of the sun glared right on the waterfall and recalling briefly Discord explaining to her of things were not as they seemed, she brought out golden yet inner green-colored flames from her right hand and soon perplexed the weapon of sorts as she held it between her eyes… And shortly blew it out as the smoke became a silvery color and hastily sailed to the falls to make the weapon gap at a very large outdoor shrine shimmering into existence as it absorbed the smoke itself, as it was part of the foundation with the water easily going at the sides with an old arched bridge for the entrance on the cliffs.

She shouted as Morgana was soon snatched by some unseen force alongside Xal'atath as they were sailing and soon landed on the very shrine itself as it was made of mostly obsidian mixed with silver and gold, and housed darkened engraved gemstones with the central statue of the shrine resembling close to a demon.

Morgana picked herself up by the use of her tail helping her, and gently grabbed her weapon as she marveled at the shrine for a few moments, before swerving to an unexpected voice emitting from the very statue itself, "Ah… Someone has finally managed to enter my Shrine after so, so long… And a Youngling at that, with detecting a few others she could summon as well."

Morgana was wary to which she guessed whatever was within the shrine statue itself, must have noticed and told her gently than to make her reluctant yet obliged it, "Come. Come close Little One, as you do not need to fear me as I sense that an embodiment of Death itself has attached to you, twice I sense… Interesting as it is those two."

Perplexed by what the statue meant by a cute head tilt, and Xal'atath muttering to herself at the clueless vibe from her wielder at already knowing what the statue meant, the entity within chuckled before she once again reluctantly did so, "I sense potential, Little One as your kind once summoned me in a battle long ago for this world and recalled The Maiden concealing my shrine for this world in safety… Place your hand on the statues maw, and retrieve what is yours as, like all others, you will have to pass a test to make our binding official."

Morgana did and held back being jumped as she felt partially drained as some of her magic, not known to her, went into the statue itself and witnessed the maw open and a gemstone fell out.

Curious, Morgana picked it up to only held in a gasp as the crimson stone with demonic runes, drained its color to a pure blue diamond with the runes it felt as if it was familiar with the child as within the gemstone itself, was a strange sword in it with a black and white crown in the center and slowly swirling from the center of the blade itself.

Morgana did jump although as she heard the voice was soon talking within her head in a rather surprising way, as she sent the gemstone into her Hammerspace with all but Xal'atath, in her current possession, ended up there as well, "It seems that I am the first one to communicate with you as your summons have yet to…" Morgana unexpectedly clutched her heart area before she turned in the direction to where she was feeling this heart-clenching yet pulling sensation from, "It also appears that I have the perfect test then for you, and if you pass, then you may summon me, Little One… Head to the field of eventual battle and we shall see."

The voice was soon gone and Morgana did glimpse Xal'atath was gazing at her in concern yet the child was soon determined as she somewhat felt pain and others from everyone, and to her surprise, as she didn't intend to summon her, Valefor summoned herself within the sky and gracefully glided down to her position at the outskirts of the cliff side of where the shrine was, and softly trilled for her to hop on.

Morgana feeling the pain in everyone didn't realize that she was being judged as well by not only this statue, but an entity in a realm where little light is shown and part of their realm they made long ago, was observing her gently in the shadows and vanished once she and Valefor took off.


Close to forty or so minutes later, within The Tulgey Woods of Gummer Slough/The Chess Board (same as a movie for location):

Both armies of White and Red were on the battlefield with some being wary as the Knave of Hearts, to concern Alice only slightly, had summoned more of those entities than before behind the Red Queen's actual army itself.

Both Queens and Alice with Stayne were soon heading over to the center of the large battlefield to confront each other, and once there, Mirana softly told her sister then as Iracebeth seemed indifferent as both Queens got off their respective carriages or mounts as the few other allies of Alice and the White Queen were nervous as they stood behind them as they both White and Red Queens were face-to-face with each other alongside the White Rabbit being the center sidelines, "Hello Iracebeth."

Iracebeth only grunted her name out to not see Mirana hide a flinch at being dismissed like that, and The White Rabbit soon got out and blew his trumpet. "On this The Frabjous Day, the Queens, Red and White shall send forth their champions to do battle on their behalf." He declared aloud for everyone to hear them, and Alice somewhat bothered by Morgana being missing, alongside a few select others.

Mirana wanted to try and change her sister's mind and decided to confess to her, and gained her attention as well, "Oh 'Racie…" Iracebeth's eyes briefly softened at hearing her childhood nickname before they hardened at the White Queen as she continued, "We don't have to fight."

The Red Queen's eyes narrowed suspiciously then at her as she commented back to Mirana then and realized her eldest sister's mind was set, "I know what you're doing. You think you can blink those pretty little eyes and I'll melt as Mums and Daddy did."

Not hearing the brief sigh coming from the White Queen, Mirana held out her left hand to which Iracebeth scowled at her soft words, as truthfully, the White Queen didn't want this war at all yet it seems it would occur, "Just give me my Crown."

Mirana jumped slightly by Iracebeth as she told her off and still maintained a graceful image, "No! It's my crown! I'm the eldest! JABBERWOCKY!" She turned behind her at the demanded tone as Claudia was the only one to narrow her orbs alongside Kipo, as they saw the very same dragon they aided a while back reveal itself from the Red Army parting ways to allow it through, as both Queens began heading to their respective sides from seeing behind Iracebeth, a dark form rises from being hidden and flys before landing in the center of the battlefield, and roared at them all.

Alice at her spot can barely contain her fear at the mere sight of an actual dragon right before her very eyes, and started to catch The Hatter's attention, "But this is impossible."

"Only if you believe it is." He softly told her with Alice sparking a memory of her father telling her those very words when younger, and tells him then to have small amusement showing in his orbs at her, "Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"An excellent practice, but just at the moment, you should focus on The Jabberwocky," Tarrant tells her with her showing a small smile at him, and blinked at what she thought in the distance was red and black smoke at where the Jabberwocky previously was and felt like that both sets were observing the field.

"Where's your Champion, little sister?" Iracebeth loudly stated to Mirana and causes Alice to jump and shake her head before coming forward as she steps boldly into the clearing, "Here."

"Hello Um," Iracebeth firmly greeted Alice in loathing and with the Knave of Hearts narrowing his eyes at her as well, and they stepped aside to allow the Jabberwocky to come forward as Alice looked up at the huge terrifying creature.

The Jabberwocky soon roars as Alice whispers to herself, her voice trembling. "Six impossible things. Count them, Alice. One! There's a potion that can make you shrink. Two! And a cake that can make you grow." She draws the Vorpal Sword then.

The Jabberwocky lowers its huge head and hisses out words to startle Alice as she didn't expect it to talk at all, and its eyes, not noticed by her, mainly gazed at the blade in her hands, "So my old foe, we meet on the battlefield once again."

"We have never met." She told him firmly to which its tongue flicked and told her in answer in hidden annoyance then, "Not you, insignificant bearer. My ancient enemy, the Vorpal One. The one that was previously wielded by the Corrupt Knight who took what was mine!"

The dragon soon strikes with its maw shut after recalling the Orb of Dreams, and roared from instead of its tongue being cut off to become mute, the blade sliced its left side of the face to show a somewhat sliced yet perfectly balanced cut scar on its cheek, and Alice began to defend herself against the dragon.

The Jabberwocky soon whips its pronged tail and knocks her to the ground.

She lays for only a moment, catching her breath and continuing her six impossible things. "Three. Animals can talk."

The Jabberwocky drives its spike tail down to stab her. She barely rolls out of its way in time.

"Four. Four, Alice!" Alice chastised herself in a faltering tone and ignored the dragon's words to 'Hold still' as pulls herself to her feet. "Cats can disappear…" "Watch your head!" Tarrent yelled out in warning to Alice she ducked in time to avoid the creature's snapping jaws. "Five. There is a place called Wonderland."

The drake at this moment tries and swipes at her with long curved claws yet Alice deflects them. "Six…" She stands still for a moment, then slowly lifts her head. All fear is gone. There is nothing but fierce intention and bloodlust in her eye. "And I can slay The Jabberwocky!" She swings the Sword and attacks with fury.

The Jabberwocky is surprised by her fierceness as they do battle, and she soon deflects its lightning breath against her enchanted shield before fighting some more.

After soon sending her to the ruins close by and with her trying to get up to get the Vorpal Sword, The Hatter inter fined by stabbing a few times in the dragon's tail, and ducked when it tried to tail-swipe him and failed.

"The Hatter's interfering! Off with his head!" Iracebeth demands as Alice and The Jabberwocky were soon fighting within the large ruins once more as the battlefield was in chaos as both Armies of White and Red began to fight each other.

Off in the distance far away, Morgana was riding Valefor and soon heard by her hearing alone the sounds of blades and more taking place, and she held onto the Entity of Wind, firmly, and sensing her plight, sped faster as much as she could to take Morgana to the Field of War.

Back at the battlefield, Stayne runs towards Tarrant with his sword drawn. The Hatter quickly fights back and the well-ordered duel erupts into a full-scale battle with Alice and the Jabberwocky in the eye of the storm.

During the battle, Bayard and Mallymkun take on the JubJub Bird and Chessur disappears and reappears to confuse the Red Knights as the Bandersnatch does battle with four Red Knights, the Tweedles fight back-to-back with perfect precision and timing, and not a single argument and March Hare stares upward, paralyzed with fear until he gets slammed by a Red Knight. Then he goes crazy, throwing things like a wild man.

Claudia and the others were fighting the creatures Stayne summoned with each defeat, they let out a dark-blue heart with pink vein-like rose lines into the sky and saw realizing they were outnumbered by these very entities alone, especially ones designed as juggernauts in armor for samurai. Even Xion was using her weapon to only deflect attacks back at the Red Knights and at the same time, deal actual magic damage to the dark entities as well.

With Alice, she leaps onto the Jabberwocky, pulling herself up to its scales as it twists and snaps trying to shake her off.

The Vorpal Sword practically pulls itself out of her hand in its relentless pursuit of the creature's head. Alice makes her way to The Jabberwocky's vest where she clings trying to slash its neck with the sword.

The vest buttons strain with Alice's weight as they snap… One, two, three… Only one is left holding the vest on by a thread.

Alice can barely hold onto the slashing Sword as just as the last button gives way, she propels herself into the air and declares loudly to the dragon, "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"

Before she could do so, The Jabberwocky hastily maneuvered itself and used its tail to send Alice to another part of the building's ruins with her barely holding onto her weapon and was once again defending herself against the large beast.

Everyone on the battlefield was fighting until they all stilled with the entities summoned by Stayne fled only a few yards out in orders as The Hatter was about to stab with his blade against The Knave of Hearts, by a large sounding trill to even startle both Mirana and Iracebeth at them all witnessing Valefor, and with seeing the Aeon of Wind soar right to where Alice and the Jabberwocky were located at.

With Xal'atath in hand, Morgana was rather shocked to see the very drake that they saved was fighting her friend, and her heart clenched at beholding everyone else fighting as well while ignoring Valefor's wing flaps within the air as she looked determined and sensing the child's plight, trilled loudly once again as those fighting were in disbelief and with Claudia blinking dumbly before punching easily a Red Knight of Six onto the ground, as the duo soon headed over to the Champions of Red and White.

With both Champions, to mention this as their battle with each other is distracting them, they didn't hear or see anything except each other as they both have bloodlust within their own eyes, and we're getting to the point that either one should fall.

Alice held back surprise when she sent an unexpected blast of light energy from her brief free hand directly at The Jabberwocky's face and made the dragon roar in shocking pain and swiped her right to a pillar before using its tail and wrapping around her left leg, and was soon swinging her onto the rubbled ground before she managed to blast the tail once again and was tossed into the air, and landed in amazement on her feet before both Champions began to charge each other… For only Alice and the drake to be startled by Morgana running and easily blocking her.

"Mary, you need to move." Alice told her gently yet sternly to which the child herself shook her head wordlessly before telling them both off in a way they were settled of their lust and gazed at each other reluctantly, and didn't see The Aeon of Wind dismiss herself or the black smoke coming from said shadows of the ruins' side, "No! This is wrong! You two don't have to slay each other as this War is wrong for everyone here!"

"The Youngling has a point, Bearer of my Old Foe," the dragon reluctantly tells Alice to make her be mixed on this before hiding back being surprised when it flicked its tongue and gazed its head to where the Red Queen was with irritation, "I only agreed to be that Queen's Champion and other to merely find the one to break the curse the Corrupt Knight placed upon my very Forme long ago, to remain as a drake in form for all time."

"You're cursed?" Alice states in a way she didn't realize this with the dragon huffing at her position, and telling her off to make Alice hold back the urge to attack the beast, "Indeed mortal fool, as that man robbed me of my dignity as a Dragon, and slew most of my kind to mere legends and those lucky enough to survive, fled into the Waygates."

Before Alice could respond to that, they both swerved from Morgana shouting loud enough to catch her girls, and those she had met's attention by that very same man from before appearing and holding her hostage with Xal'atath vanishing. At the same time, although, Stayne baffled the Red Queen (after he kicked Tarrant to where the sun won't shine and ran over) and her army as she saw him snap his fingers and the entities he told Iracebeth were a gift to her, turned the tables and knocked all the Red Knight's out and ending up behind him as if he ruled over them, and smirked while brandishing the jar of black sand that glowed an ethereal aura briefly.

"I have the advantage here, and if you want her to live, then I suggest you both pledge your loyalty to me: Harvigosa." The male states with a sharp-toothed grin that made Morgana fearful and both Champions wary and turned as he laughed at witnessing those three dragons reveal themselves within the sky and began dive-bombing fleeing soldiers and getting attacked by spells from Claudia and the others.

"Why should I pledge myself unto you? You who smell of corrupt dark and foul death?" The Jabberwocky firmly growled out while reluctantly standing side-by-side with Alice as she gripped her blade in her hands and laughed, and the three: Morgana, The Jabberwocky, and Alice soon saw Stayne ordering his minions to attack everyone.

"You are outnumbered a thousand to only a select few of your forces, my acquaintance and I furthermore made a deal with aiding my cause, and I have the Chosen Child here within my grasp," Harvigosa told them in a way, that by beholding things and the battle continued down below, he was right.

Speaking of the battle, Koneko was side-by-side with Claudia, Kipo, her sister, and Xion as they dispatched left and right the dark entities that a temporary truce was made since Iracebeth was captured by Stayne himself, and felt firstly her Mate's fear and panic, turned to the point of where she was with slit eyes and ignored her sister's plea to 'Come back' as she sped and devastated more of the dark soldiers and juggernauts.

Back with the situation, Alice shakily stood with mixed feelings as did The Jabberwocky itself by the firm and serious gaze Harvigosa possessed while edging his weapon closer to Morgana's throat.

Morgana went wide-eyed from watching them reluctantly begin to kneel in their spots to make the male dragon smirk at them in growing victory- "Take this!" A female voice cried out as he was blindsided by a dark blast to his back and realized that a Nekotama took his hostage away from him.

The four stood by each other as a dark miasma of an aura covered Harvigosa's frame with ease as he scowled at the four in irked disdain and told them in dissatisfaction alongside clenching his weapon in a brief tight grasp as he did so, "It seems that I have to take matters into a different perspective to force you into service…" they all dodged as he nearly sliced them and saw the pillar next to Alice fell with ease to the ground in a sharp yet clean-cut, "Face my Wrath!"

At the sidelines of the checkered battlefield, the red mist: Haserin, was observed within the concealed part of the ruins and with wicked inward pleasing as things were unfolding to his plan and decided to wait and see if it would unfold.

With Morgana, she was once again with Xal'atath as she managed to dodge flames that Harvigosa produced by his open mouth in an impressive amount with Koneko closely following the child, and Alice, unfortunately, being side-by-side with The Jabberwocky as the very tainted flames separated them from each other.

Harvigosa then spelled and split himself as his doppelgänger was soon attacking Morgana and Koneko, and himself on Alice and The Jabberwocky.

Alice made Harvigosa scowl with her small bursts of energy mixed with the dragon's lightning-like plasma breath at his surprising protection shield he kept summoning at the same time, attacking them, and the doppelgänger he created was doing the same yet it was Koneko's energy blasts that hit it as it was protecting itself.

Harvigosa winced in actually hidden surprise from gazing at his right side from seeing blood partially drip from Morgana accidentally nicked his doppelgänger's side with Alice pushing the mortal-formed dragon back with The Jabberwocky using its wings to send him further into the wall and dismissed his flames, and coating the doppelgänger with it to dissolve the magical clone.

He was then the one blocking blades and attacks from them before he sent a whirlwind to knock them all away, and almost made Morgana fall off the edge yet thanks to Koneko, she managed to hastily catch her as Harvigosa declared loudly by shouting in an empowered voice and the aura starting to grow denser, "ENOUGH! I have grown tired of this! If I want to take your abilities for myself, then I will have to be even more!"

In an unexpected dark flash of corrupt light, he became his draconic self and roared to make Alice pale at realizing that this was the same sounding of the very dragon that she and Tarrant heard a while back when they were alone.

Morgana stood briefly in fear before snapping out of it by Koneko grabbing her left arm and dragging her in the nick of time from dodging an unexpected miasma blast of dark flames, and told The Jabberwocky as reptilian versions of what Stayne summoned, materialized, and it reluctantly nodded in wordless reply, "Watch her."

Koneko soon went after the new creatures with Morgana, without warning, held her head in unexpected pain before yelping as she was reluctantly picked up by The Jabberwocky and soon grabbed Alice as they took off out of the ruins when Harvigosa, without warning as well, made a fiery-dark explosion that they luckily managed to avoid, and revealed behind the current ones was more ruins placed under a spell to hide a secret from long ago, of a vast ruin yet a feudal-like city.

Both Armies of White and Red halted and some even gaped at the expressions of seeing Harvigosa's true bodily look, and the creatures that they were facing soon fled into strange dark vortexes upon Harvigosa's arrival to the checkered battlefield.

Being so scared, Morgana shouted a nickname to puzzle those that don't know it, aloud, while closing her eyes tightly as Harvigosa sent a large blast of enormous energy from his maw at them as his three drake minions began to attack the others, "Yiyi!"

A major puff of smoke soon emerged with Yidhian not being alone, as Zone-Tan, Mirage, and even Artemis were with her to narrow far away in observing, Haserin and Harvigosa's and orbs around recognizing those with the genie, and to everyone's utter shock by their shared doing… A giant of a creature showing the same emblem as the other creatures emerged from a black yet fiery vortex with those Morgana knew, at the child's spot.

It was colossal at being close to forty-five and a half feet tall, and was mostly a manticore-like automaton of sorts in black-iron colored metal and components, glowing crimson optics with having three scorpion-dagger tails and possessed a three-way sharp-toothed maw. It also has runes on the shoulders, forehead, and sides in Ancient Greek with having an extra claw on each side of the feet it has.

Everyone besides the four drakes forming together in flight within the sky or even Haserin wasn't phased by it, but Artemis and Mirage froze at recognizing the very beast itself as the automaton sharply gazed at them all before roaring in a shrilling, mechanical roar.

"Behold parts of your demise, Underlanians! The secret weapon I have found within the Lost Sanctuary beforehand of this eventual battle has been brought back to finish you all!" Harvigosa declared loudly in an echoed voice as everyone began scrambling as some remnants of the entities The Knave of Hearts conjured, got easily stepped on as the beastly machine began running amok in Harvigosa's control, and said dragon wordlessly motions his head by gazing at his trine of drakes, and they roared before flying down and causing more panic and chaos to ensue.

Stayne ran with a select few others into the revealed ruins as this went down, and both Mirana and Iracebeth as prisoners by him and his partner.

Morgana managed to have Xal'atath out once again and was mostly using her to defend herself, and was eventually separated from everyone else within the checkered battlefield from the beastly automaton still causing mayhem and destruction with each step it took to several Knights of White and Red being flung everywhere in defense, and spells from several others trying to distract it alongside The Jabberwocky soon having its revenge on the one drake within the sky and froze, as the same drake that held her down a while back soon appeared and gazed at her menacingly.

"I am so going to enjoy this!" The drake wickedly told her and Morgana soon ran from the female drake as she tried to swipe and claw at her in growing irritation, "Hold still you Brat!"

Not too far off from Morgana in the chaos, Xion and Claudia were back-to-back and dealing with this machine sending smaller robotic underlings resembling either mechanical snakes, lions, or even lizards at them from parts of the armor it has, dropped from damaged scraps as with each final blow they evaporated into fading darkness, and managed to aid each other.

Koneko was with Mirage and Artemis as the respective entities themselves held weapons based on their selves: Mirage with matching themed staff, and Artemis with a living wood bow and spelled refilling arrows, as they blasted, shot, and even spelled these lesser entities from the automaton away.

As Morgana ducked, served, and also with the aid of Xal'atath to slash the incoming mechanical lesser beasts, Kipo was in her beast mode and was aided with the Bandersnatch at rampaging and clawing at the mechanical creatures with close by, Alice shocking Harvigosa within the air observing things as she managed to kill one of his trine drakes by an unexpected glowing slash attack she blinked at from using the Vorpal Sword before noticing Morgana and ran and dodged things to get to her, as everyone was attacking or defending themselves against the automaton's creations.

Even Yidhian was being overwhelmed despite being a genie of how many kept on spawning as she was aided by Zone-Tan who had slitted amber eyes at the moment with her weapon swings and slashes being a crimson wave by her weapon.

Morgana, at her point of view, was soon back within the ruins and was cornered in place by the drake herself, and held Xal'atath out in an attempt to be threaten to bemuse the female drake and easily tail-swiped the weapon out of her hands and both ignored the weapon's shout of her true name as once again, the child was soon held down and the female drake gazing right at her in hissing laughter.

"I finally get to roast you, Youngling, and no interference at all, unlike last time!" The female Drake told her wickedly as she soon opened her maw with Morgana going wide-eyed at seeing the fire easily showing and knew she was done for- "ROAR!" The female drake screeched out and sharply swerved to see Alice using the Vorpal Sword to slice part of her tail off and soon dodged as the female drake maneuvered herself hastily to engage her without seeing Morgana shakily standing before she looked determined from realizing that Alice was leading the drake away from her, grabbed Xal'atath, and followed her back to the checkered battlefield.

Alice kept running back and forth and even ducked by the growing rage the dragon had as she soon breathed purplish flames that managed to burn to a crisp several lesser mechanical beasts near Koneko as she was overwhelmed, and blinked at noticing Morgana and hid a wince and holding the urge to grab her heart like Mirage and Artemis were doing at beholding Morgana was side-swiped by another female dragon of Harvigosa's.

Morgana saw Xal'atath dismiss herself as she kept on rolling and tumbling through some parts of the battlefield and hid a wince while shakily hurrying to get up from the female drake's assault, and cried out to catch several people's attention as she was quickly pinned down by not the female drake, but Harvigosa himself.

"Seems I get the pleasure of seeing you die, while my will is spread to Underland," he told Morgana in a normal voice and hissed in dark laughter a few times and not seeing anything behind him, and Morgana struggled to get out of his firm yet clawed grip, "Now, perish Chosen Child!"

Before he could use his maw to bite her in half, he roared loud enough to daze Morgana and sharply turn in a hiss to see Alice sent an energy ball right at Harvigosa's back with Zone-Tan's own light purple miasma version, and shoved Morgana away from him to the point she soared into the air… And was caught by Yidhian and said female genie ignoring the look Koneko gave her as that was her plan.

They were all puzzled with everyone else distracted as Claudia, Kipo, and even Xion eventually came over as he chuckled at seeing the automaton leading those two pesky gods away, and stared mainly right at Alice, and ignored her faltered forme at all by his words next, and his remaining trine drake landing beside him, as Zone-Tan may or may not have overdone it on the said second drake. "So… The Ancestor of my Slayer is before me along with those aiding the Chosen Child foretold? This has been a rather few interesting days within Underland now, hasn't it?"

Wary by the way he was speaking for once at seeing the dense aura coming from his draconian frame, and perplexing Alice in a way he chuckled as they all saw a large enough shield develop all-around their area as if he was in mixed disbelief and being bemused, "You truly not know? You resemble her entirely, Kingsleigh. The one who slew those bent on the devastation to this realm, myself included close to many years in this world, and a few hundred years or so where she hailed from… A world filled with, potentially, my Master wants to reign supreme! A world of many potentials for sides against things that would corrupt those who dwell."

Hearing the automaton causing havoc and realizing that they were trapped within a barrier that these two drakes have full control over, they braced themselves as Harvigosa chuckled darkly allowing his last tribe to leave the shield he placed and began to attack them after saying the words in dark hidden glee, "I am so going to enjoy this."

Meanwhile outside the barrier as the fight was going on, both Mirage and Artemis were frustrated mixed with being wary and for once, scared for their lives as they protected the civilians and also tried and avoid the shocking blades hidden from the sides and saw that their cuts were not healing over to know it was t just made of the material they realized it previously was, but it was improved with Rough Stygian Iron.

Sure they dealt severe blows to its hide, but it barely dented alongside realizing that it was a soulless construct under the current control of that dragon.

"How can we beat this thing?!" Mirage tells Artemis as said goddess sent out another barrage of arrows to distract the automaton from harming the fleeing civilians of Underland, and she didn't get a chance to reply as a sudden gust of wind blew past them as she simply narrowed her orbs at recognizing the sensation the red mist that soon followed, formed into a familiar specter, and alerted Mirage as the automaton was sending a breath of purplish flames at anything random it sees, "Haserin."

"It is good to see you once again, Artemis… It has been years upon years for myself since our last encounter." Haserin comments casually while avoiding an arrow she sent at him, and it hit instead the automaton as it bounced and hit a random creature that exploded, and that took out most of the darker entities and mechanical lesser beasts.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk… Mind that temper of yours, as that was how you lost your life previously, isn't it? From my distraction long ago." Haserin fake-scolded the goddess to make Mirage stunned by this and shook her head as she too, shot a green bolt at him to which he dodged and it bounced before making a random Red Knight of 4 chuckles feebly and faint from being roasted.

"Seems to see that company is fairer as it shows… No matter," Haserin bemused to them before floating above the two a few feet and glancing at the automaton, and the direction where Stayne went to almost foil his plans, and at the dense barrier Harvigosa made before firmly looking at them both with a sharp grin, "I have things to settle before the Big Show to reveal to this realm, as after all… The War has yet to begin." He fled just as the automaton started to attack the two goddesses at that point.

Back within the barrier… It was chaos.

Harvigosa had them all by their toes at this point as he kept randomly attacking them with dark spells, and flames, and even shifting to a bizarre phase where he went into and randomly dragged everyone into to face a nightmarish version of a Cthulhu version of himself… All within the past several minutes.

At the moment he was doing the phase but this time, dark elementals were summoned by him for those out of his realm he made, and Claudia, Zone-Tan, and even Morgana was panting alongside Koneko as they were the only ones out of it this time.

Morgana shakily stood alongside the others as Claudia slashed the last elemental and hid a wince and glanced at the others that just got spat out, with them all weary and tired, and soon easily moved to the left when Morgana looked sheepish when she sneezed without warning and ducked as she got Harvigosa's left eye as he was coming out of the rift.

"Dodge and weave!" Claudia told them all loudly while sending spelled ice shards from her weapon at the out-of-control Harvigosa as they moved or were forced to move with the aid of Kipo or Zone-Tan.

"You brat!" Harvigosa shouted before roaring as he gazed right at the child with killing intent with his remaining eye, as to their shock, his empty eye socket wasn't bleeding at all but black smoke mixed with darkness was and dissolved the barrier, and he opened his maw wide- Everyone winced as he was quickly stepped into an explosive pile of dark parts of stone and black blood as the automaton rampaged through him before falling on its side, and the remaining lesser mechanical beasts fleeing in fear, and its eyes shut down.

"Everyone alright?" Alice shouted as she shook her head before doing so, and everyone was wary yet had some cuts or scrapes at least before they turned to the ruins and saw a red and black beam of light was shown within the center that made Morgana clutch her heart in confused pain for a few moments and made everyone blink as she unexpectedly vanished in a puff of red smoke to narrow Kipo's and a select few others orbs then.

"Kingsleigh." Koneko firmly told the blonde woman to make Alice turn to the Nekotama with Claudia soon agreeing with her at this, "I need you to follow me to where I sense My Mate is," at that word, Kipo hid the urge to growl at that alongside Zone-Tan, "Alongside the Demoness, as those entities are reforming to wipe out Underland."

"She is right, Alice." The Hatter stated to startle the blonde yet was perplexed by where he got a portable scope from as he handed it to her, and saw with its enhanced yet enchanted lens the reason: A massive army was approaching made of those very creatures she shivered just now from.

"So it's decided then by the Nekotama," Artemis told them then as she came by with Mirage in tow as to startle them, Mirana and Iracebeth were passed out and in a dark-green shield of an orb, "The Red Mayhem has taken a prize that could further aid whatever plan he has, as I have faced him before."

"You are bloody mad about splitting forces," Zone-Tan began to state to them all while motioning around the area, "Most would be harmed if whatever that person Robin Hood here mentioned." Artemis hid her dislike of the name the demoness gave her.

"It's the best chance for everyone and Morgana's sake," Xion contended as soon everyone was arguing until Alice made them all blink as she placed her fingers to her mouth and amused the few Underland Civilians as she let out a shrill whistle, and impressed a select few at taking charge.

"Alright. We will split up as you come with me." Alice began as she pointed at Koneko, Artemis, Mirage, Claudia, and Zone-Tan from seeing their states in the body were slightly better than the others, "Everyone else tends to, well… Everyone else."

Tarrant gave Alice alongside a select few a look at that, but indeed split up and headed to where she told everyone, herself included, as to where to go.