Lucy in Wonderland

Summary – Alice and the Mad Hatter unintentionally conceived a child, and Alice didn't find out until after she returned home. Alice named her Lucy. Now that Lucy is six, Alice believes it's time to let Lucy and The Hatter meet. But, things in Wonderland don't stay happy for long. The Red Queen is plotting revenge against Alice, and sometimes, a child's curiosity can be extremely deadly.

Authors Note – Another important chapter!

Disclaimer – I don't own any versions of Alice in Wonderland, nor do I own the Characters, animals, plants, tea time, or the suite of hearts in a deck of cards. :P I do, however, own a poster of the Mad Hatter. That's right. Be jealous.

Chapter 7: Revenge is Sweet, like Squid Berry Tarts

Lucy sat up slowly, her head aching. She looked at her surroundings. She was in a cage, a dark, damp, musty little room, three walls made of stone, one of bars. She stood up and dusted her dress off. Where was she and what had happened to her?

Oh, right: The Red Queen.

Lucy shivered; it was really cold in the little room. She walked to the barred wall and peered down the long hallway. Nobody was there, not a single breath of life.

Suddenly, a hand snatched out and grabbed her arm. Lucy spun around, about to scream –

"Oh, wonderful, you're awake now. I was beginning to get worried that the blow to your head caused permanent damage." The man released Lucy's arm and shuffled slowly to the single stone bench in the cell. He had a mustache and kind blue eyes. He was dressed in a white suit of armor.

"Who are you?" Lucy was starting to wonder if that was the most frequently asked question here in Wonderland.

"I am a White Knight." He smiled. "And you're Lucy."

Lucy rubbed the back of her head absent mindedly. "What are you doing down here?"

"Awaiting my execution." He replied simply, like it wasn't a big deal that he had been sentenced to death.

"Execution?" the old man nodded. "But why, you've done nothing!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Oh, but I have! I fought beside The White Queen and our champion on Frabjous day. And, according to The Red Queen, that's a crime worth my head." He mimicked slicing his head off with his index finger.

Lucy shuddered. "What is Frabjous Day?"

"Only the happiest day to happen to Underland since Horunvendush Day!" He retorted. "How can a creature of Underland go about without knowing of Frabjous Day?"

"But I'm not of Wonderland, I'm from London." Lucy explained.

"Aye, that explains some things. But still, you being the daughter of the Champion herself, it's kind of hard not to know of Frabjous Day."

"My Mother was the champion?" Lucy asked stupidly. That's what the knight had just gotten done with saying.

The Knight sighed. "You really don't know anything, do you? This should explain it. It's called Jabberwocky….

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves,
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird,
and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the Tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O Frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. "

Lucy was confused by the poem, it really made no sense. "What is brillig?"

"You don't know Outlandish either, and you don't get the nonsensical poem. Thus, I shall explain it fully." The Knight sat up straighter and cleared his throat. "Brillig is about 4 o'clock, that's when you begin to boil things for dinner. And Slithy is lithe and slimy, lithe is like… movement and of course you should know what slimy is, thus saying that the toves and slimily moving. Where was I?"

"Toves. I have never heard of a tove before." Lucy told him.

"Oh, well toves, they are quite the curious animal. They're like… a badger, and a lizard, and a corkscrew. They have the most interesting sleeping patterns, and they live off a type of berry… Where was I?"

"Gyre and gimble in the wabe." Lucy filled in.

"Ah, gyre is to go round and round like a gyroscope. And gimble is to make holes, like a gimblet. And wabe, well, this is a term even present in London." The Knight gave her a look.

Lucy thought for a second. "The grass around a sundial."

"Precisely. Mimsy is like flimsy and miserable, and borogove is a thin and shabby bird that looks like a walking mop."

Lucy laughed. "I would like to meet one!"

"Don't we all? Mome, if I think correct, means 'from home' and a rath, well that is a green pig. Outgrabe is a curious noise that sounds like this." The White Knight sucked in a gulp of air and sounded a terribly loud noise that was somewhat in between a bellow, a whistle, and somewhere in the middle there was a sneeze.

Lucy cringed. "Please do be quiet. I don't want to get in trouble."

"I trust you understand the rest of the poem?" The White Knight leaned backwards and slouched out of the good posture he had been in.

"Yes, I think. Did my mother really slay a Jabberwocky?" Lucy asked in awe.

"Not a Jabberwocky, the Jabberwocky. There is only one." The White Knight closed his eyes.

"Are you scared?" Lucy asked.

"No. I have lived a long time. I am old, and death does not bring me fear."

"You're a brave man. It's not fair." Lucy let a tear slide down her cheek. She leaned backwards against the musty wall when the knight didn't respond. She slipped into a light, restless sleep.

It really was unfair.

"I'm sorry Miss Alice, she wasn't in the Tulgey wood." One of the White Queens army members concluded Alice's worst fear. It was official. Lucy was missing from Underland.

Tarrant placed a hand of her shoulder in a gesture of kindness. "We will find her." He said.

"What if she's dead? What if something horrible happened to her?" Alice worried and fretted about.

"I assure you, Alice, Lucy is safe as long as she avoids the Outlands." The White Queen repeated.

"There is one place you didn't check. Salazen Grum, in Crims…" Chessur lead off suggestively. "You know how children can be extremely curious."

"The Red Queens castle?" Alice turned to Mirana in confusion. "It's still there?"

"We've been lazy, I'm afraid."

"I'll go!" Mallymkun declared. "And I'll escort her." Bayard added. "Be careful." The White Queen murmured. Seconds later, Bayard ran off with Mally on his back.

Suddenly, another one of the army men rode up on a horse. He jumped down and rushed to the Queen's side, and whispered something in her ear. The Queen had a horrified look on her face.

"What is it?" Nivens looked faint, as though he already knew the answer.

"My sister and the Knave… are gone from where they were banished…" Mirana said carefully.

Alice's heart sunk and Tarrant's eyes immediately turned orange.

Lucy awoke from her short nap to the sound of the metal cage door sliding open. She stayed motionless, praying that whoever was coming in, that creature wasn't there to kill her. There was a faint thump of something colliding with human flesh.

"Get up, old man. The Queen has ordered your execution be today." Lucy recognized the slimy voice of Stayne.

"Technically she isn't Queen." The White Knight spoke quietly. There was another, much louder thump and the Knave struck out. The knight made a painful sound.

Moments later the cage door swung closed. Lucy truly felt the weight of how alone she was at that moment. She sat upright and began to brush off her dress, but it was useless. It was filthy. Lucy began to sob, because she missed her mother and her dress was dirty, and she was probably going to get her head chopped off.

"Hello? Lucy? Are you down here?" someone called out. A little mouse appeared near the caged door. "Hey, what are you doing all locked up in there?"

"Mally! Oh, Mally, it was horrible!" Lucy began.

"Just a moment, there, I'm going to go get the key. I'm sure its lying around here somewhere." And the little mouse scampered away before Lucy could say anything about the horrid Red Queen.

"Mally! Wait!" Lucy called out. It was useless.

Mally scampered down the hallways, thinking about how it really was curious that there was no dust, not a speck of it, and the castle has been empty for years. Mally stopped and hid under an end table with a vase of roses in it.

"Now. If I were a key, where would I be?" Mally laughed at the rhyming sentence. Hatter would be proud, she thought. "Well," Mally said after the laughs had subsided. "I would probably be in the Red Queens room, or something like it."

Mally took off again, scampering away. She was maybe half way down the hallway when out of nowhere, a mouse jumped down off of the chandelier and landing lithely in front of her. "Hello, mademoiselle! I am Atticus Jehu Blamey!" The mouse pulled out a pin sword much like the one Mally had.

"What are you doing here!" Mally exclaimed. "Have you been living here?"

"Yes, how did you guess? It is quite comfortable." Atticus put his sword away and bowed to Mally. "And you are beautiful."

Mally blushed. "Well, I don't know about that…. Are you the one who cleaned this place up?"

"What? No, that was the Re—" Mally grabbed Atticus and rushed him to underneath the next table.

"Shhh! There's somebody coming." Mally stood on her hind legs listening attentively.

"And I want new carpet down this hallway, this type smells musty. I want a full report on the Behekonge, my precious Behekonge." The Red Queen turned the corner and Mally's brow furrowed.

"What is she doing here?" Mally hissed.

"Leave me. I need a moment with Stayne." The Red Queen stated. There was a lot of "Yes your majesty's" and bowing. The Red Queen rolled her eyes impatiently and opened the door to a large room. She walked inside and Stayne followed.

The door was about to close, but Mally threw her sword at the door. It stabbed into the door jam, and the sword was enough to prevent the door form closing. Mally moved closer, straining to hear them.

"It's not official, Stayne, I need it official!" The Red Queen was shouting.

"What do you mean, Your Majesty?" Stayne replied.

"I want the crown, my stupid sister has it. And the Vorpal sword. And the Bandersnatch. And Alice." The Red Queen whined. Mally's breath caught in her throat when the Queen mentioned Alice.

"It will all be yours, my love, give me time." Stayne answered.

"NO! I want it NOW!" The Red Queen began to throw a fit.

"How do you propose we do that?" Stayne interjected.

"Easy. I know how my sister behaves. All we need is Lucy…. Go get her Stayne, NOW!" The Queen shouted. Mally heard footsteps coming towards the door. She grabbed Atticus and ducked under the side table. Panic surged through her heart as she watched Stayne's boots walk away.

"I have to go warn Hatter!" Mally jumped out from under the table and began scrambling away. She stopped and looked at Atticus. "Are you coming?"

"Should I stay, Should I go?" Atticus asked dramatically.

"Hurry!" Mally shouted from down the hall.

"Okay. I shall go." Atticus hurried after her.

Alice paced worriedly. Now, not only was Lucy missing and the Red Queen lose, but they had sent Mallymkun and Bayard to the monster her self's lair!

"Hatter! Alice!"

Alice was sure that it was Mallymkun. Everyone was rushing outside to meet her and see if she had returned with Lucy. It was just her and Bayard and another little mouse.

"Hatter!" she panted out. "The Red Queen is back! In the castle!"

"Mally, slow down…" Alice begged. "Where is Lucy?"

"Oh, Alice…" Mally shook her head. "She's… She's locked away, in the castle…"

Lucy was blindfolded and being led throw forests by Red Knights. She was scared, blindfolded, and unsure of her surroundings. The only thing that she was sure of was that this was the end. The end of everything, Lucy was going to die.

But why not just cut off my head, Lucy wondered. A tear escaped her eye, then soaked into the fabric. Lucy was grabbed by a hand and forcefully stopped.

"Burn it. Burn it to the ground." She heard the Queen said. There was some rustling, then a loud explosion. It frightened Lucy.

Then, the screaming started.

People were shouting and yelling with fear, she could hear that people were fighting to get everyone out. "Your majesty?" Lucy heard Stayne mutter.

"Capture anything that moves. Keep an eye out for Alice." The Red Queen answered him.

She heard the pounding of horse hooves and listened to the clashing of swords as wherever they were was ambushed. Lucy struggled against the chains that bound her.

"Quiet, girl!" The Red Queen demanded. Lucy cried harder as the sounds of fighting continued.

"Iracebeth. Let the girl go." Lucy heard someone say.

"No. She's mine." The Red Queen responded like a toddler who didn't want to share a toy.

"The Crown is yours, just let the girl go." The woman pleaded.

There was no response for the longest time from The Red Queen. "And the vorpal sword?"

"Also yours."

"Bandersnatch?"

"Has been released into The Tulgey woods. You can find him there."

"Alright. You can have her." The Red Queen agreed. Lucy was shoved hard; she fell to the ground, and then was picked up and rushed away. Finally, the blindfold was pulled from her face.

And what she saw was horror. In the short time they had been running, The Red Queen and Stayne had cleared out, and all they left behind was destruction, mainly focused on the castle. The White Queen's castle was ablaze and people were running away from it as though it had been cursed.

"Are you alright?"

Lucy looked up into the eyes of a now crownless White Queen.

"Yes… But what happened?"

The White Queen sighed. "My sister got her way once again."

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PLEASE NOTE: I thought explaining the Jabberwocky poem was necessary. YES all the definitions of the words are true, if you don't believe me, just read the book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found there."