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Claude had let out a sign he didn't know he was holding in. He was leaning on the back wall of the old elevator as Francine checked Carmen's wounds, which didn't seem so bad. Simon looked scare as he said, "Those guys should not be working here. I mean, who pushes a girl for no reason at all?"

Claude shrugged his shoulders as he began running his slender fingers through his dark brown locks, which was a sign he was either thinking or really worried about something. "Let's try to not focus on them. We are here to see Lucy, not worry about some bloody dolts who treat women and mental paitents like shit."

"Well, they should learn some manners." Carmen pointed out.

Claude nodded his head in argeement as the old elevator moved with much noise. The old iron bars that surrounded the teens were rusted with time, and the old machinery moved with much hardship but it still moved quite fast. He looked as the elevator creaked to a stop and the old bars moved away from the teens to walk out with ease.

The hallway they stepped into was long and narrow, just like the one the orderlies were in. Claude began looking at the doors to find Lucy's room, but the dust on the signs made it hard to tell which room was which. "This is close to impossible..." He mummbled.

Claude flet a hand rested on his shoulder, and he turned to see Francine smiling at him as she said, "We will find her. If they clean up more and got rid of thne orderlies, maybe we wouldn't be freaking out..."

Claude smiled weakly as his face slammed into the back of Simon, who had stopped in his tracks. Claude moved away as he rubbed his nose and said, "What are you doing, Simon? I just slammed my face into that back of yours."

Simon pointed down the hallway to a heavy-built man and a elderly woman at a door.

The man had wrinking, pale skin with the head on his head gone and being replaced with a white beard on his double-chins and round cheeks. He wore a long, white tenchcoat that had a few dried-up bloody stains and that was button-up all of the way. He wore glasses that were perched on his thick nose, a white shirt under his tenchcoat, a bash tie around his thick neck, and black slacks covering his thick legs.

The woman, on the other hand, was short and deathly thin. She had an abnormally large nose, and hunchback-like posture that shorten her height even more. Her short, pure silver hair was pulled back into a tight bun that was low on her head and her watery eyes were covered by small glasses. She wore a floor-length, long-sleeved dark blue dress that looked worn out with a white apron over the lower part of her body and a dark green shawl over her bony shoulders.

"Now, now Chapman. You and I both know this girl is hopeless." The old woman said in a kind voice.

The man, who must have been Chapman, sighed. "I know. But with Whitfield leaving and with Dales coming in for the hypnotherapy sessions, there may be a chance to help this girl." Chapman said in a strained voice.

Claude looked at his friends as they walked up to the doctor and old lady. Claude breath in as he tapped on the old lady's shoulder. The woman turned around with such force due to being scared that she would have hit Claude if he was pulled back by Carmen. "Who are you?!"

Claude gave the woman daggers as he said, "Well, we are here to see someone. Lucinda Penelope Snow."

The old woman looked at him as she crackled. "Oh, you want to see the killer of her own family? She yells, and off goes her head. Well, have fun while I go get me some Blue Rin. I am getting quite thirsty, so Dr. Chapman will have you dealt with."

The old lady pushed pass Claude roughly as the doctor sighed. As the woman entered the elevator and went down, the doctor looked at Claude and said "I am so sorry about Nurse Pris' behavior. Usually Ms. Witless is kinder than that, but how things have been going lately she has become more and more angry."

Claude looked at the doctor in confusion as Carmen swoop in and asked, "I have a few questions; first, are you Lucy's new doctor?"

"Yes, young lady."

"Then where is Whitfield? Isn't he supposed to take care of Lucy?"

Chapman looked strained as he said, "Well, he time at the aylsum had came to an end a month ago. He wanted to stay with Lucy, but the owner of the aylsum wouldn't have it. So, he packed up his bags and left with his jounral of helping Lucy in toll."

Carmen looked shocked, but kept her composure as she said, "Okay. But can we know about Lucy's condition? We were her friends from Nullsville, and we came to see if we could be any of help."

Chapman looked tired as he said, "Well, we have been making some improvments since getting Edward Dales to help her. He used to be an undergradaute of Arthur Snow and he works as a hypnotherapy doctor, so I thought if we bring him in and help Lucy forget the fire then she would be getting better."

"Well, she is?" Francine asked.

Chapman sighed heavily. "She is still in deep sleeps that last for days, she still has moments of violent rages, and she still mummbles in some strange language when she is awake and not violent. But she has been less violent over the pass two weeks, which is how long Dr. Dales has been working with her. An hour session every two days and it has worked some compare to the pervious treatments Nurse Ratchet has been giving her."

"Do people really treat her that bad?" Simon asked the doctor.

Chapman nodded his head. "At this time, I am glad that what has happened because she is not being totured or being made fun of."

Claude's heart dropped as the doctor said this sentence. He loosen his shoulder from Carmen's grip as he said, "What do you mean? Where is she?"

Chapman looked startled as he looked at the door. "Well, that can not be told to outsiders. The head of the aylsum will have my head if I tell you four what has happened to my paitent."

Claude gritted his teeth as he slammed his hand against the doorknob. He turned the handle as Dr. Chapman looked shock, but all Claude said was "We are here to see her. So, let us in." Claude turned the handle and he swung the door open as Chapman shook his head. He began to leave the hallway as he said, "I won't do that..."

But the words fell deaf on Claude's ears as he walked through the door with his friends behind him. But what they found next shocked them more than anything else this aylsum could give them.

"W-W...Where's Lucy at?" Francine asked in a small voice.

The entire room looked untouched; there was Lucy's old stuffed rabbit on the pillow of her bed, a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland laid open on the floor, and the covers were mess up like someone had kicked them off of them. But the strange thing was that the single window was shut tight and the door would have been locked if it was just Lucy in the room.

Claude looked shock and it felt like the air was knocked out of his chest. He walked over to the window and glass shattered as he slammed his hand against it in anger. "Claude, do not be over-dramatic." Carmen pointed out, but her face looked just as shock as everyone else.

Claude looked at her with angry eyes and said, "How can I not be angry? Here we are, just traveled across the globe to see Lucy and she is not here! How can she just disappear and nobody tell us!"

Carmen let her shock look go away as she crossed her arms and looked at Claude with slight annoyance. "Claude, maybe someone took her outside. Maybe she was allowed downstairs to hang around other people. You can't go and break a window just because she wasn't here right when we walk in. She may be in here in a few minutes, so calm down."

As the dark-skinned girl talked, Simon smartly got between her and the brunette she was calmly yelling at. He gave a weak smile as he said, "Can't we all be friends?' Carmen shot him a look for the silly comment as she walked towards Claude, but Simon held her elbow and kept her at bay.

As the three got into a little tiff, Francine sighed sadly as she sat down on Lucy's bed. She gently picked up the stuffed rabbit and held it gingerly between her hands as she whispered, "Lucy, where are you?"

As she looked at the stufed rabbit, Simon had finally calm Carmen down. Claude looked angry still, but he let out a breath as he said "Let's go. She is not here and it is obivous that nobody wants us here to begin with."

Carmen looked upset as well as Simon, but Francine nodded her head in agreement as she sat the rabbit down. She stood up and smooth out her dress as Claude pushed pass Carmen and opened the door. "The last thing I need is for this day to go even worse..." Claude thought as his friends finally decided to follow him.

Oh, how things change so quickly.

As Claude took a step out, Francine let a high-pitched scream that caused him to run back in with Simon and Carmen at his heels.

There, Francine sat in the corner and was pointing at Lucy's bed with shock and fear in her brown eyes. Simon went over and checked up on Francine as Carmen looked at Claude with confused eyes. Claude almost shrugged his shoulders until a voice, a deep and calm, said, "So, the heroes are scared of something that can not attack? Strange..." The voice purred and it was so smoothing, yet it held a darkness to it Claude could not place.

Claude, Carmen, and Simon looked on the bed and they finally saw what Francine had been so scared of.

It was an emaciated, almost skeletal-like, cat with his bones visible through his furless, gray skin. He had a large head and paws, a disturbingly human-like smile that was spattered with blood, a long neck, sharp claws, big pointed ears, and a long tail with a tuft of fur on the end. He wore a gold hoop earring in his right ear, and his skin was covered with black marking similar to tribal tattoos. His eyes were also yellow, and they glowed with a bright light.

"Is that a cat?" Simon said to Francine as she grabbed on to his shirt.

Claude looked shock as the cat kept is human grin and it began to walk off the bed, only to disappear all together and reappear in front of Claude. "Hello there, young hero..." It said, which caused Francine to yell her head off. "My, such fierce noise from a creature so small. Humans are strange."

Claude cocked his head to the right as the cat disappear again and began walking towards Francine as it reappear. "Do not be alarmed. I came with an offering."

Carmen looked at Claude as she began to hit her head. "Okay, it is obivous the push those orderlies gave me is causing me to hallucinate this. Claude, I think you and Simon are seeing this because the oxygen has gotten back to your heads yet."

"Then how come I can see him?" Francine whined. Carmen had no answer due to the look of confusion on her face.

The cat smiled at Carmen as he walked up to her without disappearing this time. "You can see because my master wishes for you to."

Simon cocked an eyebrow up as he said, "Speak English, please."

The cat smiled as he looked at Claude with its glowing yellow eyes. Claude felt uneasy, not because a cat was smiling and talking to him, but because he knew that all of this was real. Everything seem real and solid, and he didn't feel as light-headed as he usually does in his dreams.

"Where is Lucy?" Claude mentally slapped himself for asking that question, knowing that Carmen would hold it over his head. But his lips had betrayed him, so he had said "I mean, who are you?"

The cat smiled wider as it said, "I am merely a creation of a man's mind that helped influence your friend to create a world where everything is perfect. A special place that many love, and that certain book was created for your friend."

Claude gulped as he looked at the book on the floor. The copy of Alice's Adventures of Wonderland that survived the fire and Lucy kept close to her. "Wonderland. Which means you are that Cat. The Cheshire Cat?"

"How unsure you sound. Yes, I am so the Cheshire Cat. And your help is needed." Cheshire said with his dark grin.

Carmen looked at Cheshire with the fire in her eyes back again as Simon lead Francine next to the dark-skinned girl. "What do you mean our help is needed? And who is your master?"

Cheshire kept his smile despite the enegry in the room turning dangerous. "My master is the one you came for. And the reason your help is needed because if not, my master will become fall even deeper into madness or forget her past. Either way, she needs help."

"Lucy needs help?" Simon asked in shock.

Cheshire smiled as he disappeared again, to only reappear on the bed again. "Yes. Ever since the accident, she has fallen into madness that has twisted her Wonderland, causing everything to be upside down. But now, it has gotten worse because one is trying to make her forget everything and the residents of Wonderland have become even worse due to this."

As the teens looked in shock and listened carefully, Claude began walking to Cheshire and reahced his hand out. "But that doesn't explain where Lucy is at..."

Cheshire looked at the boy as he smiled even wider. "My master has not only fallen into her twisted world mentally, but her physical self has also as well."

Simon peered from behind Carmen with his hands on Francine as he said, "Wait, Lucy is in Wonderland?"

Cheshire chuckled a little. "Yes and no. She is in the world and she can get hurt badly, but her true physical self is somewhere else."

"Then tell us and we can go find her!" Francine yelled, getting back her courage.

Cheshire looked at Claude's outstreched hand and bite on his hand, which was the one he had used to break the window, and pulled him with great strength to the other side of the bed. "CLAUDE!" Carmen and Simon yelled as they grabbed his legs, with Carmen on his right leg and Simon on his left leg as they tried to pull him back but was being pulled with him. Francine panicked as she grabbed Claude's waist and was being pulled along with her friends.

Claude felt pain shoot up his arm due to his hand already bleeding, but the thoughts of pain were erased as he saw a spiriling blue tunnel on the other side of the bed. Cheshire fell into the hole with Claude, Carmen, Simon, and Francine behind him. The colors in the hole began to mix together as Claude saw strange things like pocket watches, tea pots, playing cards, jacks, and many other things as they fell deeper and deeper down.

Then there was nothing but dirt.

Claude felt his hand bleeding, but not to bad. At least it didn't measure to the bruises he knew had on his body as he groggily got up and saw the Cheshire Cat smiling at him. Carmen, Simon, and Francine also got up from the gorund as Cheshire said, "Well, you may it here alive."

The teens got up slowly as Claude looked up and saw a beautiful building; a black Victorian-styled house that towered above the talls, blacken trees it was surrounded by. The windows were tinted with red and the black fence surrounded clsoe to the house with tall, iron gates with spiked tops kept the brunette from getting it. A single tower was on the front right side of the house and the dark wooden doors had a monsterous door-knocker.

"Where are we?" Simon asked as he looked at the building with Claude in awe.

Cheshire smiled as the gate sopened like they had a free will. "Welcome to the Rabbit House."