Chapter 5

Clock Tower fun!

Alright this chapter is finally done and now I'm going to start chapter 6. I'm so glad you guys love it! :D Sorry for being late on this one i was EXTREMELY busy. Anyway, hope you all enjoy it!

"...Liddell..." mumbled the man staring down at me.

"Yes sir!" I said with a nod. "That is my name."

The man said nothing and had a look of disbelief."You're related to... Alice?..." the man asked to himself. I nodded and was about to ask him something when the door burst open causing me to jump and hide behind the mans tall chair.

"Nightmare-sama!" yelled a voice as I heard running feet entered the room.

"No way, Gray!" yelled another voice who I remembered from my dreams. I ran out from my hiding spot and glomped the man I just met today.

"Nightmare!"

Nightmare jumped and fell to the floor. "Nightmare-sama!" gasped the man who rushed in after Nightmare had. "Are you alright?!"

Nightmare said nothing but mumbles. I got up giggling at his reaction, ignoring the blood coming from Nightmare standing next to the man who came to aid Nightmare.

"No...I think I'm going to...die." Nightmare said dramatically before feigning to be dead.

"No! Nightmare-sama!" cried the man. "Finish your paperwork before you die!"

I held in my laugh and said, "Um...Nightmare, quit being such a drama Queen."

Nightmare stared over at me and pouted. "I'm not a drama queen!" he huffed before smiling at me. "I'm a drama KING!"

"You look far from a King." Both the men and I mumbled.

Nightmare stomped his foot like a child saying how powerful he was. I wandered back over to the man behind the large desk ignoring Nightmare's childish act. "Mister! You never told me your name." I said tugging on the mans sleeve.

He stared down at me confused. "She doesn't know about Wonderland." Nightmare stated, already knowing what he was thinking. "Her mother said nothing about us or Wonderland." The two unknown men stared at Nightmare, one with a look of disbelief and the other one confused.

The purple haired man coughed to clear his throat before introducing himself, "I see... Well I am Julius Monrey."

I smiled brightly finally learning the mans name. "Nice to meet you, Mister Monrey!"

"Ah ah! Call him Julius!" scolded Nightmare.

I nodded in understanding. "Okay!"

I heard Julius groan in annoyance and said something about not being able to work.

"Oh yeah! Gray come here!" Nightmare called to the man with the blue hair. "Raven, this is Gray Ringmarc!"

I smiled and curtsied. "Hello Mi-"

"No!" Nightmare scolded again. "Call him Gray!"

Nodding I continued. "Hello Gray! I'm Raven Liddell!"

Nightmare decided to step in and explained to the two men, "Her mother was Alice. He biological daughter, no joke, you can clearly see the similarities."

"How did she get here?" Gray asked.

"She- Actually I don't know how she got here."

Gray fell to the floor and Julius' banged his head against the desk. I looked confused as to why Gray fell , but worried for Julius wondering if he was alright.

More worried about Julius I ran over and poke him. "Are you okay, Julius?"

Julius sat back up and nodded, "I'm quite alright. Do not concern yourself with me."

"Don't be so cold, Julius!" came Nightmare's voice.

"Just get out so I can work."

"We need to work too, Nightmare-sama!" Gray said, grabbing Nightmare by the arm and dragging him out of Julius' room with Nightmare screaming like a child saying something about work killing me.

"How strange." I mumbled.

"Indeed." Julius mumbled agreeing with me.

After five minutes of silence with soft tinkering noises coming from Julius working on a clock. "Julius, what are your doing?" I asked breaking the silence.

Julius did not stop working or looked at me. "I'm fixing this clock."

"Why? Can't you just buy a new one?"

"That's not how our world works."

" What do you mean?"

Julius sighed and put the clock down before turning to me. "You're as curious as your mother. For you you've got a beating heart, but for us in Wonderland, we've got clocks where your hearts are."

"Why is that?"

Julius sighed again and said, "That is just how our world works."

"Oh..."

A moment of silence pass and Julius continued his work and I started wondering around the room, much to Julius' annoyance. I began to look through his things. "Would you stop." Julius said quietly.

"I'm sorry." I mumbled and sat down on the couch.

About ten minutes later I was laying down on the couch staring at the ceiling with a bored expression. Maybe Julius will play with me. With that in mind, I quietly walked toward Julius' desk. I stood beside him watching him work before tugging at his sleeve. Julius jumped and dropped the clock he was working on. Seeing it broken once again, Julius glared down at me. "What?" he hissed. I flinched and stepped back.

"I-I'm sorry!" I stuttered out. I carefully backed away and quickly walked away. I'll go see if I can get Nightmare or Gray to play with me.

Walking up more stairs, I didn't stop until I got to the top where there were no more stairs. In front of me was a door with no other way out, I opened the door and gasped. The door didn't lead to Nightmare or Gray, but it lead to outside to the roof, I guessed. I rushed to the edge to get a look at the view.

"Woooow!" I gushed in awe. I could see everything from up here! I could see the Circus from here, it looked lively at today! I couldn't see the Prison at all, strange. I could also see a castle far off from here, a Mansion, which looked close by.

"No way!" I exclaimed in excitement. An Amusement Park was also here! I've never been to an Amusement Park, Mommy never let me go to those either. I began to wonder if those were any fun. They look like fun. My daydream was cut short when I heard sneezing. I looked over to see Nightmare hiding in a cubbyhole between the door and the railing that prevented anyone from falling over.

"Nightmare!" I quickly bounded over to him. "What are you doing up here?" Nightmare pulled me down with him and told me to be quiet as Gray came onto the roof calling for Nightmare. Gray stomped his foot and cursed before stomping back inside. Nightmare sighed and released me.

"Nightmare? Why is Gray looking for you?" I asked sitting in front of him now. Nightmare smiled at my curiosity. "Gray and I are playing Hide and seek!"

"Really? Can I play?" I asked excitedly.

"Sure! Let's stay right here and hide!"

"Okay!" I huddled next to Nightmare and stayed quiet.

Nightmare's POV

Thirty minutes later after Gray left, Raven and I were still hiding on top of the roof. "Nightmare, this is going on foreeever!" Complained Raven.

I chuckled at her childish complaining. "That is the whole point of hiding." I said ruffling her hair.

Raven pouted and her thoughts came into my mind. 'Geez, how long do they even play this game?' Raven asked herself. 'Gray isn't very good at this game.' I laughed at her thought.

"Indeed he isn't, but at the best of times he always finds me and drags me back to my work."

"You're suppose to be working?" asked Raven. I smiled nervously and nodded. "Why aren't you working?"

"It is so boring sitting behind a desk and signing papers." Raven laughed with a smile gracing her face.

Raven's laughter slowly came to a stop as her head started nodding signaling she was tired. "Tired, Raven?" I asked even though I didn't need to.

"Y...yes..." she mumbled and then stifled a yawn. I smiled and picked her up. "N-Nightmare? Where are we going?" she asked.

"I'm taking you to a guest room so you can sleep." I replied. She said nothing and nodded her head as I walked down the stairs. "Nightmare-sama! There you are!" I heard Gray shout as he ran toward me. "You've got work to do!"

I sighed and pouted. "I don't want to do boring paper work!" Gray growled and glared at me giving me the 'Work or die' look. "Come on, Gray! Can't you let me off for once?" I whined motioning to the girl in my arms.

Gray looked down and he softened up. "Is she asleep?" asked Gray. I nodded in response smiling down at the young girl. Gray sighed and stroked the young Liddell's face brushing hair out of her face.

"Very well, Nightmare-sama."Gray said softly not taking his eyes off Raven. I cheered on the inside but nodded and remained calm. Gray stepped aside and walked passed me as I began walking toward the guest room.

Opening the first one I seen I walked over to the bed and laid Raven down gently. I smiled as I covered Raven with the blankets. I bring a chair over to the bed and sat down watching her sleep for a while before I decided to go into her dreams.

Raven's POV

I blinked as I stared around the weirdly colored room. "Hello Raven." I heard Nightmare's voice greet as he popped up.

"Hi Nightmare!" I greeted back. "So I'm back in the dream realm again?"

Nightmare nodded and said, "So we never got to go to the place you wanted to go last time."

I stared at him confused as to what he meant but then I knew what he meant. "Oh right!"

"So where would you like to go?" asked Nightmare.

I smiled brightly and said "An Amusement park!" Nightmare chuckled and the dream world began to shift into something new.

There were games lining along a pathway with rides of all sorts waiting for me to ride on. Roller coasters, bumper cars, and fun houses! My face lit up with excitement as I ran to one of the rides. "Are these real?" I asked looking to Nightmare.

Nightmare smiled and nodded pointing to all the rides naming them. I bounded up to one of the games and looked at all the prizes. "Say Nightmare, since this is a dream can we go to a real Amusement Park?" I asked as he floated nearby.

"Sure." he replied "although I can't really guarantee it's actually safe..."

"Huh?"

"Nothing! Let's go on some rides shall we." He nervously said.

I nodded and ran to the Roller Coaster first. I heard Nightmare swallow his fear and followed after me.

"You want to start off with the roller coaster?" asked Nightmare.

I nodded and replied in a teasing tone, "You're not scared are you, Nightmare?"

Nightmare scoffed and walked past me. I giggled and ran to catch up with him.

"Are you okay, Nightmare?" I asked rubbing his back, he just coughed up blood during the ride and after it. I felt like it was my fault he started coughing up blood. Nightmare looked up at me from the trash can with a trail of blood going down his mouth.

"It's not your fault," he smiled, "I've always been this way."

"Are you sick?" I asked.

Nightmare stood up and chuckled, "You could say that." he rustled my hair and wiped the blood away. The world began to fade back to the weirdly colored room then to black.

"You're waking up." said Nightmare. I nodded and waved to Nightmare.

"See you soon, Nightmare!" he smiled and nodded waving back to me.

I opened my eyes and sat up rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. "Good morning." I heard Nightmare's voice chime from beside me.

"You mean Good afternoon." I said pointing to the window. Nightmare waved it off as Julius came in. "There you are, Nightmare." said Julius. "Gray is looking for you."

Gray sighed and pouted. "No way!"

Julius gave a glare to Nightmare and grabbed his collar dragging him out of the room. "Bye bye Nightmare!"

Nightmare cried as he left the room. I jumped up from the bed and walked out of the room. I looked left and right, how do I leave this place? I took a right and walked down the long hallway. I looked out the big window in the hallway and started at the Amusements Park, I want to go there! I ran down the hallway and down the stairs to the front door of the Tower.

I opened the door and ran out of the tower. Now how do I get to that amusement park from here? I ran to the other side of the tower, now lets see here... maybe I should go straight until I see something. I nodded to myself and ran along the path. I looked left, right, and forward to see if I could see anything that would belong in an Amusement park. I couldn't wait to really experience the real thrill of riding roller coasters, winning at the games, the food! It is getting me so excited!