Victoria screams as she tumbles through various things, weaving in and out of pianos,books,clocks, and other random things. She screamed for someone to help but no one answered. The rabbit was calmly dropping, even drinking tea, on his way down. Victoria lands with a thud on the dirt ground at the bottom. She rubs her head lightly and cracks her back.
"A little warning would be nice," she grumbles.
"Oh hush! You complain so much!" The rabbit uses a key to unlock a small door and walks in the door. Victoria tries to follow, but the rabbit closes, and locks the door before she can.
"The door is too small!" She pouts a bit, crossing her arms when she spots a glass table in the middle of the room.
"That wasn't there before."
She walks up to the table. There is a crumpet and a cup of tea on it. She picks up the crumpet, but accidentally drops it on the dirt. Before she can pick up the crumbs, they dissapear leaving a rapidly growing plant in it's place. When the plant is finished growing, it has multiple branches ending with, not leaves, but crumpets. Victoria looks at it strangely and picks a crumpet off the end. She takes a bite off of the warm cake and looks up. She sees the glass table hovering above her. She looks around in confusion. Victoria gasps at a boulder she did not notice before.
"How very odd," she says and looks up again,"It looks like I have actually SHRUNK!"
Victoria looks at the crumpet plant,"I know!"
She runs over to it and starts to climb the plant. When she finally reaches the top she jumps off onto the glass top and sees a key and the tea cup. Victoria warily drinks the tea. She hears a crunching sound beneath her feet. Her head hits the ceiling so she bends forward. Victoria picks up the miniscule key and unlocks the small door the rabbit went through. She bends onto her knees to look through the small opening and sees a field of lush green grass and beautiful flowers. She takes another crumpet off of the tree. Victoria takes a small nibble and shrinks once more. She runs through the open door.
"I wish I could feel the grass." An idea pops into her head and she slips off her shoes and stockings. She runs through the grass, letting the long blades whip away at her bare skin, feeling like a feather in the wind.
"Free! Free for once! To do whatever I like!" Victoria shouts into the emty wind. She giggles and smiles at herself. She unties her bows, letting her hair blow behind her in the sweet,refreshing breeze. She closes her eyes, savoring her beautiful freedom.
"Hello," a voice says. She opens her eyes quickly.
"Hello," another one says more cheerfully. She looks at the twins, a pair of plump children with a curl on one side of their head.
"Ciao!" Says the one on the left with the curl on the right side of his head.
"Ciao," says the other one more dismally.
"Who are you two?"
"My name is Tweedle Dee. This is Tweedle Dum," the one on the right says.
"Yeah! I'm Tweedle Dum!"
Victoria giggles,"Well nice to meet you both! Do you happen to know where we are?"
"We are in Wonderland!" Tweedle Dum answers.
"Wonderland?"
"Yes you stupid girl. Why are you here?"
"Why are you so mad?" Victoria says, angered by his attitude.
"My friend. He-he got captured!" Tweedle Dee starts to cry. Victoria hugs him tightly.
"Who is your friend?"
"He is a flower, his name is Antonio."
A growl comes from behind Victoria. She quickly turns to see a large, dog looking thing.
"Run!" She shrieks at them. Her thin legs sprinted through the grass at top speed.
"This way!"
"No this way!" The two twins are arguing about which way to go.
"Just go SOMEWHERE!" Victoria screams. She turns into a dark looking forest and looks back.
"I think we lost him," she breathes out a sigh of relief. She looks to her sides, where the children were.
"Tweedles? Dee? Tweedle Dum?" She walks deeper into the forest before she sees a fork in the path. A smile appears in thin air.
"Hello, I am Heracles Cat," the smile says. A cat appears around the smile, with a white and brown coat.
"Um hello Heracles Cat," Victoria says nervously.
"Go down this path," the cat said as he floated to the path on the left. Victoria smiles.
"Thank you kind cat. Wow I'm saying some weird stuff today."
She walks down the left path and comes out on the other side of the dark forest surrounded by a green shrubbery. A curled up hedgehog flies past her.
"Go get me my ball!" A voice screams from over the hedge. Victoria hides behind a bush of thorns, keeping a distance from the actual thorns. She looks to where the ball flew and sees a young boy getting the hedgehog. She peeks out from the bush and sees a young woman, a bit older than her. The woman has brown hair and a flower in her hair holding a decorated croquet mallot. Victoria walks out into the sight of her.
"You girl! What are you doing? Get over here!" She motions for Victoria to come to her right side. Victoria obediently follows the order as she had been taught. She is immediately smacked on the back of her head with a frying pan. She rubs the back of her head.
"Oww, what was that for?"
"Aren't you supposed to be planting those roses?"
"Oh uh, yes? I mean, yes! I'll get to that."
She scurries over to the side and looks down the long corridor. She sees a long line of women planting roses. She kneels down by a young woman with shoulder length light brown hair.
"Hello, what is your name?" Victoria asks quietly.
"Me? My name is Bella." Her voice is soft and gentle, matching her sweet appearance.
"Nice to meet you Bella. My name is Victoria Beth Kirkland. Where are we if you don't mind me asking?"
"We are in the red queen's kingdom. She rules all of us," she says, gesturing to the other women, furiously working over the roots of the plants. Bella's hands are absentmindedly working over the plant.
"Oh no! These roses, they are supposed to be pink. Not red!"
"Can't we just fix them?" Victoria asks.
"Hold on." Bella stands up and puts two fingers in her mouth and whistles.
"Listen up everybody! Stop planting red roses get to painting them pink!"
"Painting roses? Unheard of," Victoria gasps.
"Follow me. We are going to get paint and paintbrushes."
They both get up and run into the building. They run through the corridors until they finally reach a paint spattered door. Bella turns the knob and opens the door, revealing a large room with easels and paints galore. Victoria runs up to an easel and grabs a readied paintbrush and palette. She picks up some blue paint with the bristles and does a sweeping motion with her hand across the easel.
"No! Victoria, those are the red queens easels. No one may touch them except for her."
Victoria puts the brush down and walks away from the easel with a single stroke on it. She takes a few buckets of the pink paint and Bella takes her dress and fills it with paintbrushes. They calmly walk out to the field of roses with the items and place them in the middle of it.
"Everyone get to work!" Bella grabs a brush and swipes up some pink paint. She brushes the paint on a rose.
"Bella!" A tiny voice shouts from down the field.
"Lilli?"
Bella runs towards the voice and sees her young friend, Lili Zwingli sitting on the ground crying.
"What is wrong now Lili?" Bella asks, kneeling beside her.
"I wanted to touch the rose but I accidentally touched the thorn."
Bella sighs and take the thorn out of Lili's finger,"You need to be more careful Lili. Wouldn't want Vash to get worried."
Lili smiles,"Yeah I know."
A girl next to them pipes in."Vash? Isn't he the one with the gun?"
"Antoinette, shush. He shouldn't be known just for that."
"Yeah!" Lili says in her girlish voice. Antoinette laughs and continues to paint the rose in her hands.
"Is that fine Bella?" Antoinette asks.
"Yes, but it's not up to me it's up to Elizabeta."
All of them nod and Victoria picks up a flower and inhales the fragrance. It reminded her of her friend, Francis, whom she had loved her whole life. Then they got seperated because of her father.'It was not proper for a young lady to have male friends' her father said.
"What does he know?" she mutters to herself. She goes with Bella back to their section and sees the Red Queen standing there, looking at the unpainted red flowers.
"Bella tell me. What is this?" She says, ripping a red flower from it's bed of soil.
"I said PINK! PINK roses! What color are these?"
Bella hangs her head in shame,"They are red, miss." The red queen reaches out and slaps her across the face, leaving a red hand mark on her right cheek.
"They are RED. You will get me my pink flowers or your friend, Lili, will pay for your mess."
"Please! Don't hurt Lili, she did nothing."
Elizabeta smiles and walks away without another word.
"Sophia. Go get the others. The boys."
A girl that had been beside them nods and runs off into the building. Victoria and Bella wait for 10 minutes before the girl comes back with a young boy with blonde hair, a slightly large man with brown hair, and another young man with blonde hair.
"I have Matthew, Peter, and Arsenio. Are they enough?"
Bella nods and waves her away.
"You boys, start to paint the roses please," Bella asks them nicely. Victoria helps by painting a dozen roses. After a while, all the roses are done. The roses were all dripping the pink paint, staining the ground underneath but Bella was happy.
"Well good job everyone. Go to your quarters and rest until the queen orders otherwise."
The women and boys nod and walk off into another builidng on the opposite side of the rose field. Bella turns to Victoria.
"Go to your quarters young Victoria."
"Uh, Bella. I'm not really part of this kingdom."
"Where are you from then?"
"I'm from England," Victoria answers nervously.
"England? Where in the world is that? Is that part of the white queen's kingdom?"
Victoria ponders over what to say for a moment,"Um yeah sure. White queen. Who is that?"
"It is queen Alice Vargas, the white queen. Her kingdom rivals Miss Elizabeta's greatly. Elizabeta despises Alice so much, she stole us from her." Bella starts to cry.
"Bella, when did that happen?"
"When I was but a little girl Victoria, she took me from Miss Alice."
"Where is your family?"
"I don't know where my brother is, the only one out of my family that I knew. I lost contact with him when he got sent to another town in this kingdom."
"We need to go see the White queen. maybe we can both get out of here. You can stay with her and I can go back to England. We can live happily."
"No. We can't Victoria. Elizabeta will send her horrid Jabberwocky after us."
"Jabberwhattie?" Victoria says.
Bella sighs,"Her Jabberwocky. It's a monster that she threatens us with when we disobey."
"Well I'm going," Victoria says defiantly.
Bella whines,"Please don't go. I don't want you to get hurt Victoria. You are so nice and pretty too."
"I don't care! I want to leave this place! I thought it was fun at first but it's NOT!" She begins to cry and pout, crossing her arms.
"Victoria, be rational-"
"No! I will get out of here."
Bella sighs,"Okay. I'll go with you. We must take Lili though. Vash is still in Miss Alice's kingdom. He is her brother."
Victoria nods and walks with Bella to her room. It is a simple,red room with 2 grey colored beds and chests at the end of both. Bella grabs a bag and opens the chest. She shoves some clothes, hats, and brushes in the bag. She stands up and runs off to another room.
"Lili! Come here."
Lili obediently appears in front of Bella.
"Yes Bell?"
"We are leaving. Escaping this hell."
Lili gasps,"Escape miss Elizabeta? You are insane Bella! Do you know how bad that Jabberwock of hers is going to hurt us?"
"Lili, trust me. It will be better for all of us. You can see Vash. I can see Levi."
Lili's face brightens,"I can? I can really see Vash?"
Bella smiles at her,"Yes, you can see Vash."
"I'm in. Let's get Antoinette too."
Lili runs off and comes back 10 minutes later with the girl from earlier.
"Everyone has their stuff?"
The two girls nod."Okay then. Let's go."
She sets off to where Victoria first came and enters the dark forest. She navigates through it and comes out on the other side. She is once more in the large field of grass.
"Oh no! I forgot, today is supposed to be really high winds."
The other two girls groan.
Victoria sighs,"Well what do we do now?"
"We sit. And wait."
"Wait! I need to look for my friends friend. Antonio!"
She starts to run in the opposite direction of them. Bella runs along with her, pulling her shoulder down. Victoria flinches as she makes contact with the ground.
"What in the hell!"
"Victoria, if you are going to look we are going to come with you. Don't just run off!"
Victoria sighs again and walks slowly in front of the others. She spots a large red blotch in the distance. She runs after it and sees a giant tomato lying on the ground.
"Have you seen my friend?" It asks.
"Um what's your friend's name?"
"Tweedle Dee! He is a really good friend and I like him a lot," the tomato replies happily.
"Oh yes, you must be Antonio. Tweedle Dee started crying about you."
"He did! Oh I thought he didn't like me."
"Why are you here Antonio?" Victoria asks as she sits down in front of him. She ties her bowties back into neat ponytails.
"I thought I was a flower, but apparently I was a tomato plant. Strange how it happened."
Victoria laughs,"Must've been. We should get you back to Tweedle Dee."
"There's a person over here that was talking to me earlier."
"Oh? And who is that Antonio?"
"Roderich! Come out and meet my new friends."
A large bluish caterpillar with glasses comes floating out. He blows a puff of smoke in the girls faces, making them cough.
"Hello, young girls. Antonio are these your," he pauses to inhale the smoke,"friendsss" He hisses out the last word like a snake, making Victoria cringe.
"Yes Roderich, these are my friends."
"What are they asking?" He questions, blowing out a puff of smoke with each word.
"They are going to take me back to Tweedle Dee!"
"Fine," he drawls out with another inhalation of smoke from the ornate hookah.
"Okay then let's go," Victoria squeaks out nervously.
The caterpillar smiles slightly and floats back into the darkness of the surrounding forest.
Victoria looks back to Bella and the others, who are sitting on the floor, minds not in this world.
"Come on you guys, let's go," she cheered.
"Yeah," Bella says mindlessly.
Victoria gets behind Antomato, a name she had come up with while they were speaking. She giggles at her own cleverness and tries to push him forward. The tomato doesn't budge an inch, resisting Victoria's pushes. Victoria puts her arms down, breathing heavily.
"Bella, Antoinette, Lili, help me please," she begs.
They all nod and move over to help her push the tomato. Slowly, the tomato starts to roll on the grass. As he rolls more it becomes easier to push him. They eventually end up at the beginning of a white brick road.
"This is it!" Lili shrieks gleefully. She cups her mouth with her hands, holding back short, happy sobs.
"I can see Vash again," she whispers to herself through her tears.
They all smile at their feat and step onto the beautiful white brick. A short burst of happiness comes across Victoria, as she realizes that she will be able to go home. Back to her bed, her friends, her father, maybe even Francis. But the thought is interrupted by a loud, growl or something from behind them. Victoria looks back cautiously and sees it. A horrible dragon type creature, baring it's sharp teeth at them, with none other than the Red Queen standing by it. An evil grin is plastered on her face as she gives one simple command.
"Get them."
And the dragon darts after the girls.