Chapter 3: Fun Day
Boris leads Ali down a path, its still night. "Man! This is the longest night we've ever had." Boris looks back at her. "Hey Ali. Stay closer to me. If anything happens to you Julius will have my head." Ali rushes next to his side. He looks down at her pale face. He feels his face flush.
"Thank you for taking me to the Amusement Park Boris." She says while looking down. "I hope it's not too much trouble." His face blushes more.
"No I was headed back when Julius asked me to take you. He said that you was fidgeting and not sitting still. Though, I didn't notice." He scratches behind his head nervously. She laughs a bit.
"He noticed that? I thought I was being very discreet." The smile on her face makes Boris' heart speed up. "When I stay somewhere too long, especially indoors, I fidget. I'm sorry Boris."
"N-no! I told you it's no problem at all!"
He suddenly looks in the trees and the guy with brown hair and the red eyes is back. Boris looks serious and whispers to Ali. "Ali, hook arms with me and don't ask questions." Ali does as she's told and they continue to walk. Even though he's wearing a serious face his cheeks are rosy. "I want you to slowly and secretly look behind us." He whispers again. "Is he still behind us?" She pretends to be looking at the trees. She sees the man out of the corner of her eye, her grip on Boris tightens. "I'll take that as a yes!" He whips out a gun and points it at the man. "What are you doing here Ace?" There was a type of growl in his voice. Ace smiles and points his sword at Boris.
"I came for Alice."
"This isn't Alice, her name is Ali."
"So you and the clockmaker are so desperate to protect her?" Ali's eyes grew wide. "Why did you come back to Wonderland? Was it so you could seduce the men ag-"
"I'm not Alice!" She screams at him.
"Ali it's no use. There's no getting through to him."
Alice gets behind him and buries her face in his back. Then out of nowhere, two boys fall out of the sky and starts fighting with Ace. Ace then looks ticked and runs off into the trees. Ali looks up. The boys looked like twins with black hair. One has blue eyes and a blue uniform and the other has red eyes and a red uniform. "Ugh are you damn kids slacking off?!" Says a voice. Two other men walk out of the dark shadows, one has wavy blond hair, rabbit ears, and violet eyes; and the other has long shaggy smoky black hair, and blue green eyes.
"No way bloody chicken rabbit!" Says one of the twins.
"We were helping Boris and his lady friend."
"Lady friend?" Says the man with ears. Ali puts her face back into his back. "So helping faceless now are you Boris?"
"Buzz off Elliot." He retorts back. "And she's not a faceless. Her name is Ali. She's an outsider."
It was silent for awhile. "An outsider huh?" Elliot looks back at the other man. "Whaddya think Blood? You think it's her?"
"It's not." Boris states flatly. "Her scent is totally different than Alice, and at first glance she looks like her, but look closer and it's not." Blood smirks.
"Well let's look at this Ali girl." Blood says. "If she does indeed look like Alice then show us her face Boris." Boris glares at Blood and pat's Ali's head.
"It's alright Ali. They won't hurt you. I won't let them." She moves away from Boris. She keeps her head down as she approaches Blood, Elliot, and the twins.
"Lift your head. We can't see a thing." She slowly lifts her head. Elliot and Blood looks shocked, the twins get a big grin on their face and run over to her.
"Big sis is back!" They yell. They look up at her face. She feels pained that she wasn't who they thought she was. The twins stop smiling.
"Hey Dum?" Says the one in red.
"Yeah Dee?" Says the blue one.
"This isn't big sis is it?"
"No."
"Whoa." Elliot looks her over. "Boris is right. You do look like her, but close up something is different."
Blood walks over and looks her over as well. "Well... imagine that." He pulls his hat off. "I'm Blood, Blood Dupre."
"And I'm Elliot March."
"If you need anything, just let us know." Blood says. He nods his head and he walks off with Elliot and the twins.
"Stupid hatter. Ruined my heroic moment. Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Maybe I just need to have some fun. It's bad enough someone wants to kill me."