Okay, so here's chapter 4 of Two Girls in Heartland. Not very much to say about this chapter, so…disclaimer: I don't own Heart no Kuni no Alice!
Everything (except Jay and Ray) belongs to QuinRose!
Chapter 4: Roller Costars and Reunions
Ray's P.O.V.
I was wandering around in the forest for what seemed like hours before I finally got somewhere. Sadly, it wasn't the Clover Tower. Instead I ended up at the Amusement Park.
Oh well, roller coaster are much more fun~ I mused. Luckily, they didn't charge people to enter so I just walked right in. This was truly the greatest amusement park I've ever been to.
There were so many rides, it was almost impossible to choose. I was torn between the two tallest and apparently fastest rides in the park. The Tea Cup Jet Coaster and The Clock Stopper.
Both were at least the size of King Kong at Six Flags, maybe taller. They went forwards and backwards had at least six loops and one of them stopped right at the highest point then plummeted back down to the ground.
Oh…they both look soooo epic! How the heck am I supposed to choose which one I should go on first! This is truly the most conflicting moment in every young girl's life. I then noticed that even though both rides were open, no one was going on them, in fact, the faceless who walked by seemed almost afraid of those two rides.
…Cowards! I huffed still torn between the two.
"Umm, is something wrong?" Someone asked me. I jumped and turned around to glare at the person who dared frighten me. But I stopped glaring when I realized who it was. Boris Airay, the Cheshire cat!
"Yes, there is a problem! I can't decide which roller coaster to ride first!" I wined. He looked at the two rides I was debating on and paled.
"A-are you sure those are the rides you want to go on?" he asked. "No one has ever ridden one of those two and lived…"
"Yep~" I said cheerfully. Boris looked at me for a minute then smiled.
"You got guts kid, what's your name?"
"Ray Carson, you?"
"Boris Airay." He proclaimed proudly. I nodded and stuck out my hand.
"Nice to meet you Boris, are those real?" I asked pointing to the cat ears on his head. I already knew the answer, but I decided to play dumb for now.
"Yep. Are you a new role holder?" he asked curiously. I shook my head and his eyes widened. "So you're an outsider!" I nodded. Noooo, really? I am? Who not Sherlock Holmes could figure that out genius.
"Yes, yes I am! Now am I aloud to ride the roller coasters or not?" he laughed at me and nodded. I fist pumped and ran over to the Tea Cup Jet Coaster first.
…
Boris waited for me at the bottom looking kind of nervous. I skipped over to him and gave him a thumbs up. He blinked in surprise.
"You're sure you're alright?" he asked. I nodded.
"Yes, well, my brain is where my stomach used to be…but other than that, I'm pumped and ready to go!" I said. I could feel the adrenaline rushing through my vanes as I ran over to The Clock Stopper.
The faceless worker running the ride gave me a weird look and then turned to Boris as if silently asking 'is she serious?' Boris nodded and he shrugged.
The worker strapped me in and then pushed the button and sent me off.
…
This time after the ride I felt only a little light headed. But other than that I felt pretty good. Boris wasn't alone when I walked up to him. He was chasing a man with mouse ears, who looked like he was ready to shit himself.
I recognized this person as the sleepy Door mouse- Pierce Villers. Boris stopped chasing him when he saw me approaching.
"So?"
"…It. Was. EPIC!" I fist pumped. Boris sighed and then glared at the door mouse. Pierce sweat dropped and hid behind me. I sighed and glanced back behind me.
"Who are you and why are you hiding behind me?" I asked him. The mouse flinched and glanced up at me.
"P-pierce Villers, and I-I-I'm hid-d-ding f-f-from-m-m the scary c-cat." He flinched when Boris pulled out a knife and fork. I sighed again and turned to Boris.
"I would very much appreciate it if you didn't chase him while I'm around." I said blankly.
"So…I can resume chasing him when you're not around?" I shrugged.
"You would probably will anyways." I shrugged. Boris blinked at me and the smiled.
"Wow, you're really different from Alice. She normally just tells me not to chase the rat period."
"Well, you're a cat, it's in your nature to chase the mouse." Pierce flinched from behind me. I sighed. "I would just prefer it if you didn't chase him while I'm around, that is all." I said Boris nodded in agreement and I turned to Pierce. "Now, would you please stop using me as a human-shield?"
If there was one thing that I hated more than clowns (besides zombies) , it was being used as a human-shield. Pierce nodded and stepped out from behind me and I smiled.
"Good, now let's have some fun!" I shouted running over to some more roller coasters, with the boys following not to far behind.
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After riding almost every ride in the park, we needed a break. I pulled my hood on my hoodie down and drank a mango smoothie. Who would have thought they would have mangos smoothies in Wonderland? I thought to myself.
"Hey, Ray?" I glanced behind me to look at Boris.
"Hmm?"
"Are amusement parks in your world as fun as they are here?" he asked. I shook my head.
"Not by a long shot. The roller coasters here practically deify the laws of physics and are much faster." I said.
"Really? The old man would love to hear that~" I gave him a confused glance. Old man? Oh! Right he means Gowland!
"He's the park owner, Gowland. If we meat him be sure to say no if he asks if he can play a song on his violin for you, got it?"
"Why?"
"H-he's horrible, and tone deft." Pierce said joining the conversation, Boris nodded his head in agreement. I blinked. He really must be bad if Pierce and Boris are actually agreeing on something…
"Okay then, anything else I should know?"
"You don't want to mention his first name." I gave him another confused look.
"The old man hates his first name. It was a secret until the Hatter found out and spread it all across the country, wanna know what it is?" he asked mischievously I shrugged and continued to sip my smoothie.
"His name is 'Mary Gowland'." they both started at me intensely as if waiting for something to happen.
"So?" I asked and then took another sip of my smoothie. They blinked in confusion.
"You don't want to laugh or something, do you find it in the slightest bit funny?" Boris asked almost disappointed. I shook my head.
"Name is a name. It's nothing more than a title in my eyes." I said blankly. Pierce sighed with relief and Boris just shook his head.
"Well, I can tell right now that the old man will definitely like you." Boris smiled his trademark grin. I smiled back.
Just then we heard what sounded like and explosion not to far off. I turned to the direction. I laughed when the faceless started to freak out and scatter the streets like ants running from a foot.
"What was that?" I giggled as I continued to watch the crowd panic.
"You don't laugh at the funniest name in the world, but you laugh at people running in terror after an explosion?" Boris mumbled. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"I'll repeat my question: what exactly was that explosion?" I asked again. Boris shrugged.
"Probably the old man and the hatter going at it again." He shrugged. "I highly doubt you really want to get mixed up in it though."
"Your right I don't to get mixed up in the fight, but I definitely want to watch it." I said getting up and walking in the direction of gunfire.
"Wait a minute," Boris said as he and Pierce ran to catch up with me. "I thought outsiders hated this kind of stuff!" I shrugged.
"Some do, so don't. Everybody has different opinions on this sort of stuff in my world, besides I just want to see what a real gun fight looks like up close. Not like the fake ones on the TV." I grinned.
…
We were at the gunfight in no time at all, and frankly, it wasn't what I expected. It was a lot more chaotic and wild than on the TV. There were faceless getting shot in every direction, people firing at each other and everyone here (except me) probably had a gun. Most of the firing was coming from a man in a bright yellow jacket and a man with a top hat.
"Is that the old man?" I shouted over to Boris. He nodded.
"Yep, he goes on a rampage every time the hatter shows up." He shouted back and I nodded. One of the bullets whizzed right by me and hit a faceless worker. I watched emotionlessly as the body turned into a clock.
I pulled on Boris's boa getting his attention he looked at me curiously and I pointed to the clock.
His face hardened and he pulled me over so that we could talk.
"Why did that person turn into a clock?" I asked He sighed.
"The people here have clocks in stead of hearts. That's what makes outsiders so special, you can't be replaced like we can, if one of us dies, there are about a million other replacements for us. But not for you." He explained sadly.
I nodded in understanding. The gunfire started to go down and we decided to head back. We saw Pierce holding back Gowland from strangling the man with a top hat.
That must be Blood… I then noticed another man with brown rabbit-no hare ears walking up to him.
The man with the top hat-Blood- noticed Boris and me walking up first.
"Hmm and just who might you be young lady?" he asked me.
"Ray Carson, you?"
"Blood Dupre, are you an outsider?" he asked. I nodded.
"Boris, there was outsider here and you didn't tell me?" Gowland asked completely forgetting about strangling Blood. Boris shrugged.
"I was going to introduce you after we finished up at the Juice Bar." He said. Gowland sighed and glared at Boris and Pierce, who let him go. He then stuck out his hand and I shook it.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Ray, I'm Gowland owner of this park." He stated proudly.
"Nice to meet you" I said politely.
"So tell me, how long have you been here exactly?" he asked I shrugged.
"Maybe an hour or two." I didn't really keep track.
"Did you go on the rides?" I nodded and Boris patted my head.
"Hey old man, she road the Tea Cup Jet Coaster and the Clock Stopped and was perfectly fine." Boris said. Gowlands eyes widened with wonder.
"What? Really? You're the first person to ride those two rides and live!" he proclaimed and I nodded.
"Well Mary, it seems like your rides aren't total death traps after all." Blood teased. All eyes turned to me and I pointed to Boris.
"He already told me." I said blankly and he shrugged.
"We got no reaction." The role holders eyes widened and the turned to me.
"I just didn't find it funny."
Gowland grinned.
"I can tell right now, you and me are gonna get along well kid." Gowland said.
"Don't call me kid." I said blankly. He apologized.
"Well, it seems like we aren't going to get anywhere with territory negotiations today," Blood stated and looked to me. "Would you like to visit the Hatters Mansion being that you have already visited the Amusement Park?" he asked me. I thought it over for a minute and then shrugged.
"Sure." I said. He smiled and the dude with hare ears walked up to me.
"Your name's Ray, right?" he asked. I nodded. "Well, it's nice to meet you, I'm Elliot March!"
"Well, we better get moving; we don't want to have another outburst, right, Mary?" Blood taunted. Gowland snapped and started shooting again. Blood said something to Elliot and then Elliot picked me up over his shoulder and we began to walk away.
"Is this really necessary?" I asked after a few minutes. I got the feeling I was going to picked up like this a lot during my stay here. Blood shrugged.
"We wouldn't want you to get hit by a bullet, now would we?" Blood stated calmly. I stared at him blankly.
"But we're now out of the rang of fire…" Blood nodded to Elliot and he put me down.
"Thanks…" I mumbled. "No problem at all." Blood stated cheerfully. I glared at him but brushed his arrogance aside. It's no wonder he one of the more hated role holders among fangirls…
Boris and Elliot asked me questions about my world and what not and I asked them questions about theirs. It pretty much went like that for the entire trip until we reached the mansion.
Outside the gate were four people, I recognized three of them to be Alice, Dee and Dum, and then there was another girl I didn't recognize.
Her back was turned to me, but I could tell she was from my world. From what I see, she had caramel brown hair that ended just past her shoulders; she had pale skin and wore a yellow tee with jeans and…rainbow converse? I also took note of the brown domo hat on her head along with the 'Finn the human back pack she wore'.
Elliot's ears twitched with annoyance and ran up to approach the group.
"Hey you slacker, what the hell do you think you're doing?" he shouted. Blood sighed and shook his head following the pissed off hare.
"Did I miss something?" I asked Boris. He shrugged.
"Dee and Dum are the Bloody Twins, but they tend to slack a lot, which causes the rabbit to get all pissed." He said putting his hand s behind his head.
The group turned around to face us and my eyes widened. I stopped walking and stared at the girl in the yellow tee.
"J-Jay?" I asked. The girl looked at me and she smiled.
"Ray!" she shouted and ran up to me. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Oh you know, fell down a rabbit hole, road on some roller coaster, you know the usual." I said casually. She laughed and patted me on the back. Hard.
"Oi, watch it!" I shouted at her and she stopped. I glared at her as she smiled back. I rolled my eyes and walked over to the group of role holders and Alice.
"You must be the other outsider." Alice said as we approached. I nodded. "Well I'm Alice Liddell, and you are?"
"Ray. Ray Carson, it's nice to meet you, Alice." I smiled. I then noticed the twins and Elliot still fighting and sweat dropped. "Do they always do that?" I asked and she nodded.
"Yes, but you learn to get used to it." She giggled. Blood then approached us and looked to Alice.
"I take it you're here to barrow another book?" he asked and she nodded vigorously.
"Yep, I need to read the next book to find out what happens. This one ends in a cliff hanger." She said. Blood laughed at her enthusiasm and nodded.
"Of course." He then looked to Jay and me. "You both may come as well if you like." Jay and I looked at each other for a moment and shrugged. We all then followed Blood and Alice inside the mansion.
…
After an hour or so of book browsing, night had fallen and we all went outside to garden where a tea party was set up.
White explained the whole day switching to night and then back to morning at random thing, so I didn't need to ask. I also tried not to stare at the faceless servants, which was harder than it looked, so I tried to think of something to distract myself.
"So, Alice?" I asked she stopped sipping her tea and looked to me. "How long have you been in Wonderland?"
"Umm…hard to say, with the random time changes, it's almost impossible to tell." She shrugged. I nodded and ate some cake.
"Hey, Ray where did you end up? I landed at the top of the Tower." Jay said and I sweat dropped.
"The Circus…" I mumbled. Alice started coughing up her tea and Elliot and the twins stopped arguing. Everyone was starting at me in shock. Then Jay burst into laughter.
"Ha ha ha! You end up in a place full of clowns." She chuckled and I glared at her. "It's not funny." I mumbled, but she continued to laugh.
"Did you run into the Joker?" Alice asked and I nodded.
"Yeah, White explained the game to me, and Black managed to piss me off within the five seconds I met him." I said.
"That's new recode. Someone actually managing to piss you off in less than five second." Jay mused happily as she sipped her tea. After that everything presumed as it was before. The twins showed me their new treasures and asked me if I had a favorite weapon.
"Umm…I guess scythes are cool, yeah, definitely scythes." I told them. Alice gave me a weird look but said nothing. Man this girl really does hate violence; I'm not sure how well we're going to get along.
The rest of the night pretty much went on like that. Jay and Boris chatted and she told him about Green Day and a Very Potter Musical. I threw a piece of cake at her when she tried to sing a song from Holy Musical Batman, and then got scold by Blood for throwing food. But it was worth not having to listen to 'Super Friends'.
I sided with the twins in the argument against work and how it was boring, while Elliot argued with me that homework was completely different from actual work.
"Work is work no matter what you say and either way, it sucks!" I told Elliot and he face palmed giving up on the argument.
Eventually, the time switched to day ending the tea party. Blood had offered for Jay, Alice, and me to stay at the mansion and we agreed.
Elliot showed us to the guest rooms and then left. I said good night to Alice and Jay before going into my room and instantly falling asleep the moment my head hit the pillows on the bed.
Well, there you guys have it, chapter 4! I luckily didn't have to rewrite on this one quite as much as I did the last one and hopefully it turned out well and I didn't make the characters to ooc. But I'll let you guys be the judges out that.
R&R~