We got to this other side of the town, but...this place gots mushrooms, almost big as trees. It shadows over the buildings but most of the buildings are mushrooms too. Even though some of them are dead. Some of the people are still around.

"Giant mushrooms? Never seen them this big before." I said as I looked at them.

I heard a grunting sound next to me, it was William, and he was rubbing him temple. He's been doing that when we was near this place.

"Uh...you alright?" I asked, which I shouldn't.

"Does it look like I'm 'alright'...? I'm being suffocated here...!" He said holding his breath in but which is failing.

"What smell? All I can smell is thick dryness." I said as I grinned mischievously at him. He glares.

"You humans are lucky to have 'normal' sent of smell..." He mumbled." What I can smell is very very strong when you ground the beans into powder. Ugh...!" He said weakly as he starts to cover his noise with his hand with disgust.

"Very strong smell...ground into powder...you mean coffee? I said to him. He nodded.

"That lazy-ass is at that place."

(Should I be sorry for him...? Nah he deserves it.) I smirked.

"Then lets go find him, since your such in the hurry. Oh, and I think you need a drink by the time we get there."

He looks at me slowly, probably willing to kill me. He did a fake laugh. "Thanks but I don't need one, but I think you need one the most. Mrs. Scream-a-lot. Talk about annoying." He mumbled in the end. I think I just popped a vein.

"Excuse me?" I said to him aloud, and I think I got somebody's attention. I didn't care.

"There you go, blondie. Now lets go." He said as he walked away.

"I told you my name is Alice...!" I made a tiny growl at him.

(I swear that I will punch him in the face so he can eat his own teeth!) I gripped my fist tightly, I ended up following him. Ugh...

We found the building, which didn't took long just by speed walking the way here. The building windows has cracks on them, and the lights inside are dim but its still enough to see. The place is called 'Walker Telesco's Coffee Cafe', the sign was bent sideways and the one of the letters are missing.

"Is this the place he is at?" I questioned with a slight disbelief. I look at William, he got that handkerchief tight around this head. I cracked a smile.

"Yeah...he is. Ughh...! This is not working...!" He said aloud as he gripped the handkerchief tightly. Probally holding his noes. "Get in!" He said as he shoved me to the door. "Ladies first."

"You know your doing the opposite of being a gentlemen." I glanced at him angrily and I put my hand on to my chest. Then I just now realized that he still got my locket.

(...I need to get that back from him, and I almost completly forgot about it.) I thought to myself, closed my eyes, and open the door. As we walked in, this woman came to us fast. She was lumping, and she was pretty beat up. She also gots something big and red around her neck, its made out of metal, it also touches the neck, looks as though that it doesn't let her head go to any directions, and it got some wierd heart designs on it.

"W-welcome... guest! May I-" She trailed off as William walked passed her like he didn't hear her at all. I looked at her and back to him not knowing what to do, then I followed.

(What the hell were those things...?) I start to noticed that all of the workers have those on, and one of them was getting a little suffercated by it. I brushed it off of my mind and tried to iggnored it.

"Damn...where is he? That lazy-ass." He was really getting fustrated. His head snapped up and walks off fast, seems to have found the guy. Finally...! He gots to the table and and starts to shake him roughly. This guy has his head down on the table and got his hads around the cup thats filled with coffee thats still hot, he has a shoulder lenth black hair, his is wearing a black jacket that has a hood and the inside of it is dark purple, aslo the linings on his jacket, and he also has...mouse ears?

(What the- another one? What kind of a world that has half human and half animals? Is that even possible!?) I thought to myself confusedly and rubbed my head.

"Hey, Xander. Wake up!" He said aloud as he continues on shooking him. "It's almost midnight, we don't have the time for sleeping in a place like this." We both heard him mummbling and snorrs. William looked pissed right now. He snatched the cup out of Xander's hands, held it above him and pored the hot coffee directly to Xander's head. I was in shocked when he did that to him.

"Ow! Hot!" He exclaimes as he shook his head rapidly."What the hell was that for, Will!?" He yells. I realized that he is wearing goggles that has black metal around the dark purple lenses. I couldn't even see his eyes under it.

"Because you were dead asleep, idiot." He said as he drops the cup to the floor and it shatteres everywhere on the floor. Xander's expression changed whe he sniffed the air, he turn his head towards me.

"And who is this young lady, Will?" He questioned, his emotions shiffted fast. I made a little jump.

"That does not matter now, let's-" Xander cutted him off as he put his hand on his mouth out of no where. William seems angery.

"Whats your name, Miss?" Xander said as he removed his goggles and cleans them off by the coffee spilled on him. He looks about seven-teen, he has a big scar on his four head that is under his dark hair, he's pretty handsome as well, and his eyes are very white purple. And by looking at his eyes,I know something like that kind of color before at my world...he's blind. I snapped back to reality.

"Um...My name is Alice Frost." I said quietly, probally didn't say it loud enough. Crap.

"Nice name, my name is Xander Nighthollow." He said with a lazy-like grin.

(Wow...he seems nicer than William.) I thought surprisenly.

"Alright you two, enough talk. Let's get out of here, it's already-" He trailed off slowly then looks at the main enterence door. "Sit down and be quiet, now." He said as he pushed me down next to Xander roughly. By the time he did that the door slammed open and the glass from the door shattered, it startled me and all of the people. I glanced what it was then these two tall men came in thats dressed in black armers and some of the parts are dark red like blood, it also has those weird heart patterns like that one woman has around her neck. And they are slender looking too. I suddenly got scared, I did't realized that I was trimbling, then Xander took off his jacket and throws it around me. I wated to say something but kept quiet. The whole room was dead silence, and I can even hear the wind blowing outside.

(Whats going on...why am I scared all of the sudden...? I've never been this scared before in my life...!)

They start to walk around the rooms and starts to smell the place, even on the people. I didn't had the time to think of anything, my mind was just focusing on those guards. I noticed that one of them was coming towards us, I looked down on to the table and try to iggnore it foot making heavy sounds against the floor, then I realized what it looks like. It's skin has a dark gray color and it's skin is like a snake's skin, it's eye was deeply dark like I'm just looking through a dark hole, and it's teeth was sharp as razors. I wish I had not seen that. I start to feel naziated.

As it finally came, it starts to sniff us around. That thing smells like dead bodies. I was holding my breath by the time and it pulled away to William and came to me, I stared down deeply trying not be scared. As it starts to smell me, I start to feel the hot breath comeing down to my neck thats making the back of my hair go up. I went on to Xander and backed away from him and a loud hiss came through it's teeth. It was probally was the coffee. It snorted grimly and came back to it's partner and starts talking to each other, there voices was echoy too when they are talking. One huffed and walks out, the other followed and slammed the door shut but the door broke off. Everyone made a deep sigh of relive, I was doing it as well.

"What was that about?" I said quietly. Trying the get the memory out of the way.

They both paused for a moument, Xander made a tiny sniff then punched William's arm. Most likely its his problem. He glared at him. He sighs.

"They are looking for the intruder that is not from this world, and not from this world...it means you." He said as he glanced at me.

"But...it was just you and me at that time, well...beside that creature. But how did they even know I was here?" I asked uneasily. He took a moument to stare at me.

"The only one that knows is...the Queen of Hearts." Said as he pulled his handkerchief down.

(A...queen? Of cource its possibal to have one but...this one knows I'm here. How?)

As I was about to say something, a woman's scream broke the conversation and it brought the attention through the room. I whipped my head where the scream is from and it was that woman from before, but she is being touch by these guys. She was screaming 'get away from me', then she choked a bit for some reason. She slapped the guy after that. I start to notice that the simbols of the hearts vanished. I was very tripped out about it.

"Hey...what are those things around her neck? Never seen those before..." I asked quietly.

William was quiet for a moument because he was glaring at the harassment thats happening to the woman, Xander head was down. William sighed silently.

"Those are called 'Decapitation Chokers', you'll only get them if you get a job. One of the bitch's stupid law." I almost gasped when he told me what it was, I barely covered my mouth. "Once you got them on, you'll never get them off untill you die. See those hearts around it? When ever you dissobey, they start to disappear, and when they disappear...your head will be off. If you want to live, you have to do everything that they want you to do to them."

I snapped with anger and banged the table with my hands. It made Xander flinch but it didn't bother William.

"Thats bullshit! She can't just do that to people like there life just garbage! There lifes are more important as much as her pride into her god damn work as the queen!" I didn't even calm down a bit. I made some attention to the people behind us but they iggnored me, I can tell Xander was staring at me from my yell, as for William he just made a blank face that has a bit admusment on his lips.

"Great speech girl, but that is not gonna help at all. She has already given up on us a long time ago when the uprising came." His smirk disapperes after that. Then I heard that word coming through my head. Upraising.

"What-" I've been cutted off by the woman scream again. She starts crying out she doesn't want to deal with everything thats happening, the hearts starts to disappear untill its one left, and she keeps being ckoked by it, she finally snaps at them and starts scream out loud as she could so everyone can hear her cries. "Don't you dare touch me!" When the final heart pattern disappears, she lifted her head to the ceiling slowly and I start to see some thick, red liquid running down her chest to the floor. She fell to her knees then...her head came off. My eyes went really wide as sausers and my mouth dropped with horror. Some people jumps up by it but didn't even scream for anything by it. My stomache starts to ache by looking at the inside of the woman's body thats ozzing out blood slowly all over the floor. I made a gaging sound and ran outside, I heard William calling out for me but I didn't bother to stop. As I came through the door, currently through the broken window that was on the door, went to the side of this ally and throw up.

(What the hell is wrong with this place...? Why did he even drag me into this hellish nightmare?! I...I want to go home...! Racheal...) I start to tear up as I finally stop, then I heard a tiny whisper through the dark ally thats infront of me, which oddly sounds...familliar. I looked up to see what it was, till I see it. It was at least six feet tall and it was coverd with fur, feathers, clothing, and so many other materials I see on it, and it got this freaky mask on thats smiling michivously. I gotten really afraid, till I heard it whispering voice at me. It was my sister's voice, calling out for my name over and over as it walk towards me silently. I wanted to run from it but I was frozen to the ground, I'm trapped. As I look up at the thing thats using my sister's voice, it slowly lifted it's mask over its mouth and it showed it bare yellowish sharp teeth at me and its forked tongue was touching its teeth in a whisper. I start to loose my sight from it and I start to feel really dizzy and wobbly by it, I could not even open my eyes, or my mouth to cry out for help. Its like...something is...being sucked...out of...

I bearly heard a voice thats coming from behind. It was William. He covered my eyes roughly and shoved me away from the thing and lifted me up from the ground. I couldn't even try to lift up my arms, mouth, eyes or anything. It was all numb. I start to see a big flash of light brighten across my sight till I finally blacked out. And I though...someone was...scraming out for my name. It wasn't from my sister's voice...it was from a woman's and a man's voice...