[A/N: This is another one of my favorite Disney movies. This version of Wonderland doesn't follow the Tim Burton version (it was an ok movie) and instead follows the storyline of the 1951 version. This chapter took a little longer than expected, but I wanted to get all the details in so please bare with my tardiness. The poem 'Jabberwocky' belongs to Charles Ludwig Dodgson or Lewis Carrol whatever you want to call him.]
The area that they were falling through was pink checkered with darker pink. Juliet and Akio landed on their feet while Clementine landed on her face. Akio was the first one to start looking at his surroundings and saw a fireplace painted on the ceiling. "Weird place…." He heard the sound of pattering feet and a girl's voice coming from further down the hall. There was a sudden warmth in his chest when he heard the girl's voice. "Juliet, I think one of the seven pure lights is here."
This caught Juliet's attention imminently. "Where? Point me in the right direction."
Akio pointed over at the direction where he'd heard the voice. "Over there somewhere." He was nearly knocked over when Juliet rushed passed him. "Sure, leave us behind why don't you."
Clementine was just now recovering from falling on her face and looked up in a daze. "Where's Juliet?"
"Where do you think? I told her that one of the seven pure lights was here and she went off to look for them." Akio sighed and started walking off in the direction that Juliet had gone. "Well, we better go find her."
Juliet had come to the end of the hall where she found several open doors all layered together, but the last door was quiet small. With a bit of difficulty Juliet managed to squeeze through the hole finding herself in another checkered room. She got to her feet and saw a little blonde girl wearing a blue dress examining a box of cookies. She could feel the warmth that Akio had been talking about and walked over to the girl. "Hello, who are you?"
The girl looked over at Juliet and set the box of cookies down. "Hello, are you from around here?"
"No, actually I'm from far away from here. Anyway what's your name?"
"Oh, my name? Alice. What's yours?"
Juliet was about to respond when she heard Akio crawling through the little door. "That's Akio, I'm Juliet, and I'm sure Clementine is around here somewhere." She waited until Akio had finished crawling through the hole before Clementine popped through. "There's Clementine."
Alice looked puzzled, but shrugged and returned her attention to the cookies. "Now let me see…." She picked up one of the cookies and nibbled off the corner. What surprised her about taking such a small bite of the cookie was that she grew suddenly smacking her head into the ceiling. One of her feet was blocking the doorknob's mouth. She heard him try to say something and moved her foot. "What did you say?"
"I said a little of that went a long way." The doorknob was laughing up at Alice.
It looked like Alice was going to start crying. "Well I don't think it's so funny." Now she was crying." Now I shall never get out."
Juliet walked up to Alice and tapped on her shoe. "Come on Alice don't cry. It's not that bad." She felt a large tear drop hit her top of the head.
"Come now crying won't help." The doorknob was trying to make things better.
"I know, but I just can't…."
By this time the whole room was filling up with tears. Akio and Clementine were trying to climb the legs of the table that was in the room, but were only succeeding in the slipping back down.
Juliet wasn't the best at swimming, but she could doggy paddle as she was doing so she saw a bottle floating through the water. "Alice, you have to stop crying you're going to flood the whole room."
The doorknob saw a little bottle floating past. "Oh look the bottle the bottle." This last bit came out garbled as more water sloshed in his face.
Through her tears Alice could see the bottle and picked it up. She took a little drink out of it right before she shrank and fell into the bottle. "Oh dear I do wish I hadn't cried so much." The little bottle went through the doorknob's mouth quickly followed by Juliet, Akio, and Clementine.
As she continued to doggy paddle through the water Juliet saw a bunch of lobsters on a paddle board. "Akio, Clementine where are you guys?" She saw Alice in the bottle floating past and swam up to it. "Alice, have you seen Akio or Clementine?"
With a bit of difficulty Alice crawled out onto the lip of the bottle and was balanced on top. She pointed over at Akio and Clementine who were bobbing up and down. "Will somebody please help me?" A wave came up and knocked Alice back down into the bottle this time filling it up with water.
Juliet dog paddled back over to where they were and wasn't surprised to see that Clementine was swimming like a fish while Akio was struggling not to sink. "I think we should keep an eye on Alice while we're here. She is one of the seven pure lights."
Clementine swam past Juliet and was heading towards the shore. "Well we can't let her get away now can we?"
On the shore Alice was balanced on top of a bird that was dancing around a large rock where a dodo wearing a pea coat with an ascot and hat was perched on top. "No one could ever get dry this way."
"Nonsense, why I'm as dry as a bone already." The dodo picked up his fire as the water came in again.
"Yes, but…." Another wave came over Alice and got her soaked to the bone again. She looked around hoping to see someone that she recognized when she saw the White Rabbit who was sitting soaked of course in is umbrella. "Mr. Rabbit…."
The White Rabbit pulled out his watch and gave it a quick glance before he hopped up out of his umbrella. "Oh my fur and whiskers I'm late."
"Oh don't go away I'll be right back," Alice called as she went around a corner.
Juliet quickly floated onto the shore followed by Akio and Clementine and had to run after Alice who had gone after the White Rabbit. "Alice, Alice slow down we need to catch up."
It wasn't because Alice had heard Juliet calling to her, but she did slow down. "Now where do you suppose he went?"
Akio was holding a stitch in his side as he came up behind Juliet. "Who or what do you think she's chasing that could be so important?"
"A white rabbit," Clementine piped up.
"How'd you know that?"
"I heard her calling to him." Clementine could see a pair of eyes watching them from behind the bushes. She walked over to them and pushed the braches apart, but didn't see anyone.
Alice meanwhile was on her knees and was crawling through a tree trunk. "I wonder."
From out of the bushes came two portly twins dressed in yellow and red with hats on their heads. They exchange looks of confusion before walking over the trunk and standing in front of the opening.
Not noticing that the twins were there Alice crawled out of the hole. She turned around and saw them standing right where she'd just come out of. "My, what peculiar little figures." Her finger traced the names that were stitched on their collars. "Tweedledee and Tweedledum."
One of the twins made a squeaking noise that startled Alice. "If you think we're wax works you ought not to try and speak to us."
"If you think we're alive you should try and speak to us."
Alice didn't look terribly interested in talking to either of the twins.
"You'll be getting it backwards now."
"Aye, the first thing you do in a visit is shake hands." Tweedledee and Tweedledum grabbed onto Alice's hands and began to jostle her around as they shook both her hands.
Alice was now sitting on the ground with her hair in her face. "Really? Well, I'm looking for a rabbit so goodbye."
"Oh, you can't leave now."
"Oh, but I must."
"Why?"
"Well, I'm curious to know where he's going."
The twins looked between each other and clucked their tongues. "Oh, she's curious. The oysters were curious too and you remember what happened to them. Poor things."
This got Alice's attention and she turned back. "Why? What did happen to the oysters?"
"Oh you wouldn't be interested."
"Oh, but I am." Alice was trying to keep up with Tweedledee and Tweedledum who'd began to walk away.
"Oh, no you're in much too much of a hurry."
"Perhaps I could spare a little time."
"You could?" The twins hastily sat Alice down on a rock. "Well, the Walrus and Carpenter. Or the Story of the Curious Oysters."
While Alice, Juliet, and Clementine listened to the twin's story Akio thought he heard scuffling the trees behind them. He slipped away from the rest of the group to go investigate. Pushing apart the branches of the trees Akio saw Puck and Antonia. Thinking they hadn't seen him he quickly ducked behind a tree and peered out so he could better hear them.
Antonia shoved Puck up against a tree with her arm to his neck. "Are you being serious right now Puck? Are you?"
"Yes, sister I'm being quiet serious."
There was a look shock on Antonia's face. "You can't turn your back on us. We're your family."
"You're no family of mine. We just happened to be created from the same matter." Puck heard a noise from behind the trees and pushed Antonia away. "Stay right here I think I hear something." He crept out from under his sister's arm and walked over to where the sound was coming from.
Akio saw Puck coming towards him and quickly ducked back into the foliage. Keep going Puck. Just ignore me.
Puck heard the sound of a tree branch snapping and turned his attention to the sound. It only took him a few seconds of searching through the trees before he found Akio. "Oh, its you again. What do you want from me this time?"
"I don't want anything I was just coming to see what the noise was."
Puck didn't look convinced. "Well now you know. Now if you'll excuse me I have a Jabberwocky to set loose." He turned and started to walk away when he heard Akio call out to him.
"What you said before about being sick of the darkness. Why don't you give it up and help us?"
"Its not that easy you see. I told you this before if you're born in darkness that's where you have to stay no amount of anything can change that. Now leave me alone."
Akio watched Puck disappear back to where ever it was that he'd come from. "What's a Jabberwocky I wonder."
By the time he made it back to where the rest of the group was Akio saw Alice walking away with Juliet and Clementine. "Did Tweedledee and Tweedledum finish their story?"
Alice ignored Akio and continued to walk past with Juliet and Clementine following her.
In the background Tweedledee and Tweedledum had started a new story. "You are old Father William the young man said and your hair has become very white. Yet you obsessively stand on your head do you think at your age this is right?"
Akio had to quicken his pace to catch up with them. He came out into a clearing where there was a little house with a thatched roof. When he went to open the gate leading up to the house Alice pushed past him. From up in the house he could hear a shrill voice.
"Mary Ann, Mary Ann? Where is that blasted girl? Mary Ann?"
Alice looked quiet eager to see the rabbit and walked past Juliet and Clementine. "The rabbit." She pushed the gate open and started to walk into the front garden when the white rabbit came bustling down the steps. Alice started to go after the rabbit when it turned around abruptly to face her.
"Why Mary Ann? What are you doing out here go get my gloves I'm going to be late."
"But late for what that's exactly what I'm-" Alice was cut off when the rabbit blew his horn in her ear.
"My gloves at once!"
Juliet didn't follow Alice into the house and had to grab onto the back of Clementine's shirt to keep her from going in. "I think we have visitors."
Sure enough wraiths were crawling up through the carrots and cabbages in the White Rabbit's garden. One of the anger dogs swung a paw at Juliet only to have it get smacked away. It snarled and lunged at her again only to have Akio's disk hit in the snout.
A greed parrot came to the anger dog's aid and began flinging its talons in Akio's face scratching him in the cheek.
It didn't take long for the small slew of wraiths to be destroyed leaving the garden still relatively intact.
Clementine looked over at Akio and took his chin in her hand. "Stay still I need to heal you." She cast a healing spell on his cheek before letting go of him in time to see Juliet investigating the garden. "We should probably go check out what she's doing."
It had been a while since Juliet had eaten anything and those carrots were starting to look really tasty. She pulled one up out of the ground and licked her lips. "I don't think the rabbit would mind to much if-" She heard the sound of smashing bricks and looked over to see Alice's arms and legs sticking out of the White Rabbit's house. "What has she gotten into now?"
The White Rabbit came back at this moment before stopping dead in his tracks and running off blowing his horn as he yelled something about a monster.
A few minutes later the Dodo from before came waddling back with the White Rabbit babbling after him.
Juliet crouched down in the garden so that she'd be hidden from view and motioned for Akio and Clementine to do the same. As she listened to the White Rabbit and the Dodo talk she plucked a carrot from the ground and nibbled off some of the corner. It felt like she was being closed up like a telescope and the next time Juliet looked up she saw that the house looked like it had grown three times its normal size. "How did that house get so big?" Looking around the garden she noticed that the carrots and cabbages had also gotten bigger. "Or did I get smaller?"
Akio had seen Juliet disappear and began to creep over to her making sure to keep out of sight of the Dodo and the White Rabbit. He managed to get over to where he'd last seen Juliet, but was no unable to see her. "Juliet, where are you?"
"Down here."
He looked down to see Juliet staring up at him. She was about as tall as his ankle. "How did you get so small?" Akio crouched down and lowered his cupped hands so Juliet could crawl into them.
"I took a bite of a carrot and I shrank. I suppose it's like the cookies that Alice was eating before." She looked over the top of Akio's fingers to see Clementine coming over. "I think you should eat one of those carrots too."
"Why?"
"So we can sneak around a bit easier." Almost as soon as she said this Alice's arms and legs disappeared from the windows as she rapidly shrunk.
Clementine was walking past the Dodo when he tapped her shoulder.
"Excuse me young lady do you happen to have a match?"
"No, I'm sorry I'm actually looking for someone so I have to go." As Clementine entered the garden she saw Akio crouched down holding Juliet in his hands. "What happened?"
"Juliet ate a carrot and shrank herself and now she wants me to do the same thing."
Without thinking Clementine plucked a carrot from the dirt and took a bite.
"What are you doing?"
"Shrinking what does it look like?"
Soon Akio found himself with both Clementine and Juliet in his hands. "Well, I might as well join you two." He set them down and picked up the carrot that Clementine had dropped and took a bite.
Just as Clementine had shrunk Alice came crawling down the steps of the White Rabbit's house. "We should probably go after her."
As Alice was crawling down the steps she was stopped the Dodo.
"Pardon me, young lady do you have a match?"
"No, I'm sorry. Oh, Mr. Rabbit?"
"No cooperation no corporation at all. Will have to carry on alone." The Dodo resumed trying to set the White Rabbit's house on fire.
They had to rush after Alice who'd disappeared into a field of flowers. Juliet nearly tripped over a leaf when she caught up with Alice. An insect flew into her face looked like a butterfly with its wings made out of bread with butter.
Alice was also staring at the insect. "A butterfly?"
"You mean bread and butter flies."
Alice looked around in confusion. "Yes, I suppose….hmm….now where do you suppose?" She was looking around only to see many flowers crowded around her. There was a shrill whinny in her ear and she looked up to see a rocking horse with wings flying in her face. "A horse fly….I mean a rocking horse fly."
"Naturally." The voice was calm and soothing.
Looking around Alice was trying to figure out who was talking when she saw a red rose smiling down at her.
Like when she'd first seen Merlin, Clementine looked positively enamored with the talking flowers. "I didn't know flowers could talk."
"Well do you think we do all day," this came from a daisy who flopped her petals around as she spoke.
"And we sing too." There was a group of carnations that said this.
Alice looked like she was the most impressed as she listened to the flowers argue about which song to sing.
Finally, the rose tapped a conductor's baton. "Girls, we shall sing Golden Afternoon." She gave Alice a fond look. "That's about all of us. Sound your A lily."
As they listened to the flowers sing Juliet thought she saw movement in the grass, but ignored it. It's probably nothing to worry about. If it were a wraith it would have shown itself by now.
After the flowers finished their song the lily turned to Alice. "What kind of garden do you come from?"
"Oh I don't come from any garden."
The lily turned to the violet. "Do you suppose she's a wild flower?"
Alice was quiet in thought. "I guess you could call me….um….Alice."
The lily still looked a bit confused. "Ever see an Alice with a blossom like that?"
The violet looked a bit uppity and was holding a pair of glasses to where her nose would be. "Come to think of it have you ever seen an Alice?"
The lily was pulling on the hem of Alice's dress. "And did you notice her petals."
"Rather scrawny I'd say." The violet had a slight sneer on her face.
"I think she's pretty." There was a little rose bud near the base of the violet's stem.
"Quiet bud."
The violet turned to the rose completely ignoring Alice now. "I'd say she's nothing more than a common Oblay Bulgaris." This was heard by the rest of the flowers who looked horrified at the very mention of it.
"A common what?" Alice looked both confused and angry.
The violet turned back to Alice and was leering down at her. "To put it bluntly: a weed."
"I am not a weed."
The violet was now brandishing her leaves at all four of them. "You're all weeds. Go on get out of here."
Alice was knocked into the carnations who promptly pushed her out as a smaller white flower began to bark at them. Getting out of the carnations Alice looked like she'd had quiet enough. "All right if that's the way you feel about it. If I were my right size I'd pick every one of you and I guess that would teach you-" There was a sudden gush of water that knocked her on off her feet sending Alice crashing into Juliet, Akio, and Clementine.
The floated down away from the cackling flowers until Alice was able to get her feet back under her again. "You can learn a lot of things from the flowers. Hmph it seems they can learn a little something about manners."
Juliet stood up wringing her hair out as she watched Alice flatten her skirt out. "I never thought I'd meet flowers. They're ruder then I expected them to be." She looked over at Akio. "I'm surprised you didn't short circuit."
"Why would I short circuit?"
"You're a computer program right? I thought water would mess you up."
"No, not necessarily." He looked over at Alice to see that she was going off in the direction of where smoky letters were coming from. "We should probably go after her."
Clementine had gone off track as she'd followed Alice through the grass and soon found herself lost. She was hastily trying to back track when she nearly ran into Antonia. "Not you again."
Antonia looked abashed at this. "What's that supposed to mean? Maybe I wanted to see you again." She reached forward and pulled on Clementine's ear. "Lost the donkey ears I see."
Slapping Antonia's hand away Clementine took a couple steps back. "I need to go."
"Bye-bye see you later."
By the time Clementine caught up Juliet, Akio, and Alice she found them talking to a blue caterpillar smoking a hookah from a top a mushroom.
The caterpillar looked down at Alice and blew a smoke ring in her face. "Who are you?"
"I hardly know, sir. I've changed so many times since this morning you see."
"I do not see. Explain yourself."
Alice watched as the caterpillar began to climb up a blade of grass. "Well I can't explain myself, sir. I can't explain it because its not clear to me."
"You? Who are you?"
"Well, don't you think you ought to-" Alice was cut off when she got a face full of smoke and began coughing. "Don't you think you ought to tell me who you are first?"
"No."
Alice sighed and sat down on a mushroom. "Oh dear. Everything is so confusing."
"It is not."
"Well it is to me."
"Why?"
"Well I can't remember things as I used to."
"Recite."
Alice stood up from the mushroom and curtsied. "Oh yes sir. How does the busy little bee improve its shining-"
"Stop." The caterpillar came down from its blade of grass. "That is not spoken correctedly. It goes how-" He went to blow on his hookah again when he found that his lower feet were gripping the cord that connected the hookah together. He slapped them away and glared at Alice when she laughed at him. "How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale. How cheer…..how cheer." His lower half was starting to fall off the leaf he was balanced on.
Alice began laughing again, but quickly quieted herself when she got a dirty look from the caterpillar.
"How cheerfully he grins. How neatly he spreads his claws and welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws." He looked down at Alice with an expected smile on his face.
"Well I must say I haven't heard it that way before."
"I know. I have improved it."
"Well if you ask me."
The caterpillar was blowing smoke in Alice's face again. "You? Who are you?"
Alice got a face full of smoke again and coughed so hard that she sneezed and fell off the mushroom. She glared back at the caterpillar before turning her back and stomping off with Juliet, Akio, and Clementine following close behind.
The caterpillar climbed up the stem of a plant and began waving his hands. "You, girl wait. Come back. I have something important to say."
Juliet took a few bigger steps so she could get in front of Alice. "You might want to go back and talk to him. It could be important."
Alice stopped walking and turned around. "What could he want now?" It took her a little extra longer to get back to the mushroom where the caterpillar was perched. "Well?" She had her arms crossed over her chest.
"Keep your temper." He blew a smoky dart at a dart board that was floating above his head.
"Is that all?"
The caterpillar who had been lying on his back rolled forward so that he was resting his elbows on his backside. "Exacededly, what is your problem?"
"Well its exacedly….exacedly…well it's precisely this. I should like to be a little larger sir."
"Why?" The caterpillar had begun climbing up another plant stem.
"Well after all three inches is a such a wretched height-"
"I am exacededly three inches high and it is a very fine height indeed." The caterpillar was beat read and furiously puffing on his hookah. There was a cloud that was beginning to surround him.
Alice by this point was also getting very angry. "Well I'm not used to it and needn't shout." She shouted this with such force that she blew the smoke away revealing that the caterpillar had disappeared. Alice took a step forward and picked up one of the shoes that had been left on the mushroom. "Oh dear."
"I have a few more helpful hints." Came a voice from above them.
Alice was looking around to try and figure out where the voice was coming from when she saw that the caterpillar had changed into a butterfly and was flying above her head.
"One side will make you grow taller."
"The other side of what?"
"And the other side will make you grow shorter?"
"The other side of what?"
The butterfly flew down in Alice's face his whole body a brilliant shade of magenta. "The mushroom of course!" He flew off in a huff.
Alice pulled off two pieces of mushroom from the different sides. "One side will….but which is which? I don't care." She took a bite. "I'm tired of being only three inches high." It was like she'd been kicked under the jaw as she shot up above the tree lines.
Juliet whistled as she looked up at Alice. "So, she's in another jam. Do you think we should leave her here? I mean we already know she's one of the seven pure lights." She started to walk off when she felt Clementine grab her shoulder. "What?"
"It wouldn't be right for us to just leave her here." Clementine took a few steps back and cupped her hands to her mouth. "Alice, can you hear me?" Instead of hearing an answer she heard Alice talking to someone who was flying up around her head.
Akio went over to Clementine's side and looked up at Alice. "She isn't terribly bright is she?" Almost as soon as he said this Alice came sailing back down landing hard on the ground.
Alice was starting to look a little flustered as she looked at the pieces of mushroom still in her hand before she cautiously licked the other piece and grew back to her normal height. "Goodness I wonder if I'll ever get the hang of it." She had to crouch down and offered the mushroom to Juliet. "Just lick it don't take a bite."
After all three of them had licked the mushroom Alice resumed walking towards a forest. As they entered the forest a new voice could be heard.
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves and the moe raths outgrabe" The voice was coming from up a tree
"Now where in the world do you suppose that came from?"
"Lose something?"
Alice turned suddenly to see a grin floating in a tree branch and began trying to stammer out a response.
"Oh, that's quite all right." Two eyes came down to join the grin. "One moment please." Air blew out between the teeth making a harmonica like sound. "Second verse. Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe."
A smile came to Alice's lips. "Why, why you're a cat."
"A Cheshire Cat." The cat tipped his ears to Alice. "All mimsy were the borogoves." The Cheshire Cat swept its tail over its face and began to disappear.
"Oh, wait don't go please."
The Cheshire Cat peaked out from beneath its tail. "Very well. Third chorus."
"Oh no no no thank you, but I was just wondering which way I ought to go."
"Well that depends on where you want to get to." The cat raised itself up on its elbows and opened its back paws in a questioning gesture.
"Well it really doesn't really matter-"
"Then it really doesn't matter which way you go." The Cheshire Cat flipped up on its head and tipped itself off the branch before it disappeared. The cat's laughter could still be heard as paw prints began to walk around Alice. The cat reappeared back in the tree branch a few minutes later. "Oh, by the way if you'd really like to know he went that way." His paw pointed to the left, but his eyes were moving in all directions.
"Who did?"
"The White Rabbit."
"He did?"
"Did what?"
"Went that way."
"Who did?"
"The White Rabbit."
"What rabbit?"
"But didn't you just say….oh dear…" Alice turned around in a huff.
"Can you stand on your head?" The Cheshire Cat had removed his head and was now balanced on it. He ignored Alice's huffing and placed his head back on his shoulders. "However, if I were looking for a White Rabbit I'd ask the Mad Hatter."
"Mad Hatter?" Alice looked at a sign that had 'Mad Hatter' written on it. "Oh no no I don't think…."
"Or there's the March Hare in that direction." The cat pointed at another sign.
Alice looked quiet relived at this and started to walk in the direction that the cat had pointed. "Oh thank you I think I'll visit him."
"Of course he's mad too."
"But I don't want to go among mad people."
The Cheshire Cat was wearing its usual grin. "Oh you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here." He began to laugh a strange barking laugh before he inhaled sharply; his body starting to disappear. "You may have noticed I'm not all there myself." Soon the grin disappeared too.
Alice looked a bit worried after hearing the Cheshire Cat's last remarks. "Goodness if the people here are like that I must try not to upset them."
Juliet found herself hanging back looking at the tree that the Cheshire Cat had been in. When she turned back around she found the cat's head (and only its head) floating in front of her. "Oh, hello again."
"I thought I ought to warn you key bearer. There's a monster loose in the forest that you might want to get rid of. I fellow I believe by the name of Puck set it loose."
"That doesn't surprise me. What's it called what's it look like?"
The cat chuckled and moved a little closer to Juliet's face. "Listen up and I'll tell you everything you need to know. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wave: all mimsy were the borogoves, and the moe raths outgrave. 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 hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wave: all mimsy were the borogoves, and the moe raths outgrabe." As the cat finished its poem it continued to grin at the confused look on Juliet's face.
Juliet took a step back from the Cheshire Cat. "All right so there's a monster called the Jabberwock running around. I'm assuming this is the tulgey wood?"
"Quiet right. Now why don't you go get rid of it before it causes a bigger stink then it already is." The Cheshire Cat's head began to vanish until only the grin remained. "I'd hope to it if I were you." The grin disappeared.
"Akio, Clementine come back we need to go find a monster."
While Akio imminently stopped going after Alice, Clementine looked torn. "Why can't we keep going with Alice?"
"Because the Cheshire Cat just told me that Puck set a monster called the Jabberwock loose in the forest." Almost as soon as these words left Juliet's mouth a huge hairy clawed paw lashed out and swiped at her head.
The beast that the claw was attached to had roughly slimy scaly looking skin, giant bat like wings, a long slopping tail, horned feet, gangly antenna, and a wide gapping mouth full of large yellow teeth. There was a putrid smell wafting from its open mouth as it loomed over them.
Juliet summoned the Keyblade and had to jump back as the Jabberwock sung its claws out at her. "So this is the Jabberwock is it?" She took a step forward with the Keyblade aimed it. "Ugly looking thing aren't you." Her answer was an enraged snarl.
Akio was busy staring at the Jabberwock before he glanced back at Juliet. "I don't think you want to make it angry, Juliet." He threw his disk at the Jabberwock hitting it on its upturned snout and had to quickly back away when it screeched at him and thrust its claws at him. "Come on Clementine back me up."
There was a storm of blizzard magic from Clementine freezing the Jabberwock's tail to the ground.
As Juliet and Akio continued to attack the Jabberwock as it lashed out Clementine continued to cast magic at it. However, this approach didn't seem to be working that well. The Jabberwock seemed impervious to both physical and magical attacks.
As the fight progressed Juliet could feel herself starting to get tired when she remembered the poem that the Cheshire Cat had told her. And with its head he went galumphing back. This gave her an idea. She had to hop out of the way again when the Jabberwock tried to bite her when she noticed that its neck all though flexible was also fragile looking. Once she was out of the way Juliet tightened her grip on the handle of the Keyblade before giving it a toss aimed at the Jabberwock's neck.
The Jabberwock saw the Keyblade at the last minute, but was unable to get out of the way in time and its head was severed. The head landed in the dirt with a wet thump. The body continued to thrash about for a few last seconds before it crashed to the ground.
As Juliet summoned her armor and glider she didn't hear the sound of someone clapping behind her.
