Beauty and the Witch Sister

by Aeonmaster Aeroza

Morgana "Mary" Jasmine Potter is an abused little girl of six while being hit by her uncle, since her aunt and cousin would fear as to what he would do to them. But one day while watching a particular movie, she was hurt worse than before by her uncle and was sent by someone special to another realm to which, she wished to be within. This is her story. Fem HP X ?, Belle X Beast

17. Wonderland Arc (Part 2)

The next day, early in the morning:

Alice was resting on the ground with Morgana in front of her, and both blankets covering their frames alongside the child's tail lazily swishing at the tip.

Morgana's face was scrunched up as if she was acquiring a bad dream while also her body felt calmed by Alice being close to her when the elder of the two, was startled awake to the sound of something sniffing the hat… Something large.

Attempting to prevent Morgana from waking up while gently as her mother did to her in uneasy slumber, ran her hands a few times within the silky yet scaled hair, she found out, as the child relaxed then and snuggled deeper into the blankets as Alice was able to get up.

Without warning, the Hat is flipped over, uncovering the two as she shortly closes her eyes for the end… Until Alice felt a big, wet nose sniff her. She then opened her eyes as they widened by seeing how big the bloodhound was before comprehending she was still dreaming yet recalled events before quietly exclaiming at him to not disturb Morgana, "You turncoat! You were supposed to lead them away! The Hatter trusted you!" His only plain yet the emotional response was, "They have my wife and pups."

That information he gave out does little to lessen her slowly swelling anger yet at the same time, also felt slightly sorry for him, but decided to query who he was, "What's your name?"

"Bayard." He told her while glimpsing over at the child and saw that she was still sleeping yet looking like she was still under a nightmare of sorts before looking back to the blonde woman as she then commanded him, "Sit!" This only made him cock his head and look down at her curiously. "Sit" Alice repeated as he decided to amuse her while also feeling amused himself, and sat. It was then he comprehended something and made Alice groan at the end of his question, "Would your name be 'Alice' by any chance?"

"Yes, but I'm not that one." She notified him as he shook his head in disagreement before admitting to her then, "The Hatter would not have given himself up for just any Alice."

"Where did they take him?" Alice decided to ask her question back as for some reason, she felt something odd that fluttered within her stomach by the mention of his title, and the guilt she also felt to which she caused him to have before he was taken yet pushed it to the side when Bayard told her then, "To the Red Queen's Castle at Salazen Grum."

Alice looked at the knocked-over hat from Tarrant, still recalling the very pain within his eyes before expressing affirmatively to the bloodhound male, "We're going to rescue him."

Morgana stirred within her sleep as, within her ring, Yidhian and the two girls were still sleeping inside her so-called remodeled genie lair, as Bayard sternly told Alice then while they didn't see Ami manifest herself for a brief moment to see what was going on before shrugging and then going back into Morgana's heart to watch one of her memories of some movies, "That is not foretold."

"I don't care. He wouldn't be there if it weren't for me." Alice informed him while trying to keep her voice down yet Bayard shook his head in a wordless no before retorting back to her in an informational way and making her privately falter by them, "The Frabjous Day is almost upon us. You must prepare to meet The Jabberwocky."

"I have had quite enough! Since the moment I fell down that rabbit hole, I've been told what I must do and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, scratched, and stuffed into a teapot. I've been accused of being Alice and of not being Alice. But this is my dream! I'll decide how it goes from here!" She shouted while not witnessing Morgana's body giving a glow once before after so long while tossing in her sleep, from the noise.

"If you diverge from the path…" Bayard tried to explain yet she cut him off while determined and telling him straight in a loud commanding tone, "I make the path!"

Without warning, they winced while staring at Morgana as she let out a very loud, piercing scream as they managed to stand in place by a dense aura suddenly spreading from her frame and sent in a large circle to the area she was at and blinked at seeing the tree that was affected, began to bloom and have life once again, before blinking her tearful eyes and Alice out of her pure kindness, settled her down before giving Bayard a look for later as she helped Morgana up alongside herself to his spiked collar around the neck while she clung desperately to her sides, with a wince yet held it in as she held onto the item, "Take us to Salazen Grum... And don't forget the Hat." She added.

Bayard grabbed the hat with his teeth, and took off after a few yards outwards, a figure appeared with a sharp-toothed grin while examining the tree and vanished into a red mist before pursuing them by a yard out within the shadows.

Bayard wades through viscous red mud with Alice on his back. He holds his head high to keep the heat out of the mud while Morgana was sightseeing and not recalling her dream this time, yet she oddly felt she didn't want to hurt anyone which both Xal'atath and the book itself felt.

Sooner than anticipated as time slightly passed, Bayard races across the red desert to Salazen Grum and the dark castle that sits on the tempestuous shore.

The Red Queen's Castle is built from stone with prominent red heart accents, the same color scheme as oddly enough, the Queen of Hearts Card. It has many heart-shaped hedges and it also has gardens with many red roses and hedges cut into the shape of the Red Queen herself. There are many heart-shaped designs outside and inside the castle. There is also a moat around it, and Morgana was repulsed to not be hungry alongside Alice at seeing the heads of the ones executed within the red yet murky water provided.

"There's only one way across," Bayard tells them as he can easily detect the wariness the child had while allowing them to get off his collar and onto the ground, and Alice looks at the grim moat. She then takes a deep breath for courage while Morgana did the same, yet had to plug her nose while glancing at her tail and making it straight for balance, as Alice muttered to herself aloud, "Lost my muchness have I?"

She jumps onto one of the floating heads with Morgana doing the same, then crosses the moat by leaping from head to head as within the ring, Yidhian cursed as someone or something was once again preventing her or the two girls this time, from escaping her ring as Alice also helped the Young Chaosarinian.

Reaching the other side, Alice was the one that vomited onto the ground with Morgana sending hers back down as she had to breathe the rotten aroma during the last few heads, and they both glimpsed at each other before looking up at the impossibly elevated wall, then Morgana pointed to make Alice then see a small cracked opening near the ground… Just wide enough for a six-inch girl or so in size.

She agreed to go first before Morgana in case it won't work, yet she easily squeezes through it before Morgana follows her afterward. In a moment, her head reappears as she then calls across to Bayard, "Bayard! The Hat!"

He picks the hat up in his teeth, turns in circles like a discus thrower, and releases it. The hat then sails high across the moat and over the wall. Bayard bays his farewell to them before taking off and the two going into the garden or in terms, the large courtyard the castle has.

The courtyard is filled with red rose bushes and a cricket game is already set up. To both girls, as they walked inside the courtyard still, this is the only place in the castle that shows actual liveliness and greenery.

Alice and Morgana then find themselves in the bushes at the edge of the garden while trying to find the Hatter's Hat. Morgana was the one to hold still as Alice then heard a loud 'Whack' sound, a small cry of pain, then cheers and laughter.

She looks through the bushes before glancing briefly in half-amusement at the child copying her due to her curiosity as they saw The Red Queen and her Courtiers play croquet.

She was a stout, gigantic bulbous headed, fair skin, with red heart-shaped hair, pale-faced queen with sky-blue eyeshadow, and wore a red-and-black dress with a large white collar, tan corset, red dress skirt with gold-and-black hearts, black shoes with red hearts under the heels, white-and-black striped stockings with red hearts, pearl necklace, gold crown with rubies. She oddly looked like the actress named Helena Bonham Carter, but with mentioned head size.

This was, as commented, as the Red Queen and also went by the name of Iracebeth of Crims, or specifically, Iracebeth Elsemire.

Her Courtiers, however, appeared to have bigger parts on specific parts of their bodies as well (Letting you know they are the same in the movie, as a reminder).

The Red Queen then swings her mallet as they both hear that small cry again.

Alice peers around for the source and Morgana noticed the Queen was using a flamingo as a mallet with a hedgehog- they dodged as the ball rolled toward them and passed while they ignored their crowd cheering at the Red Queen as they try and help the hedgehog as it lays helpless, furry and gasping, in the grass while tied by its four legs into an awkward ball. Its fur is also matted and filthy.

Alice attempts to untie it as the creature cries out fearfully. "Shhh. I want to help you-" Morgana jumped slightly while glancing at Alice when Iracebeth proclaimed loudly to everyone, "Where's my ball? Page!" Alice manages to free the hedgehog, and it stares at her mutely before stumbling into the foliage.

Alice turns to Morgana as she glances upwards while also tugging her dress before she too then sees two large white furry feet as her gaze travels up to the White Rabbit, Nivins, and he was dressed as a Court Page while staring at them both. "Well! If it isn't the wrong Alice. What brings you here?" Nivins asked her to which Alice responded, "I've come for two reasons…" she then beckons him closer as he does bend down before she punches him in the face, "That's for dragging me down here against my will!"

"You didn't have to hit me! Now there's going to be a bruise. Is there?" Nivens tells her off before he shows them his chin, "No, Mr. Rabbit. Miss Alice didn't make a bruise." Morgana states to satisfy the rabbit before he asked Alice in her previous comments, "What's the other reason?"

"I'm going to rescue the Hatter." She determinedly tells him to which he huffed amusedly to only make her eyes roll for a second with Morgana recalling said animal in pet shops back in London, "You're not rescuing anyone being the size of a gerbil." Alice though, was pondering and decided to inquire he paused while gently swatting Morgana away from his large right ear to pet it, "Do you have any of that cake that made me grow before?"

"Upelkuchen? I might have some left." Nivins states while searching his person as he managed to hide some of what was left of his things before wearing, forcibly like the others, this outfit.

He managed to dig into his pocket deeper and took out a large piece of what appeared to be a ginger-like carrot cake in color and smell that Morgana from not having anything to eat, held back some drool as glimpsing the child's predicament, gave her a decently sized portion before he gawked as Alice takes it and shoves as much as she can into her mouth. "Not all of it! You're going to grow-" it was too late while Morgana grew back to normal size while still hungry, Alice on the other hand… Kept growing. Alice only kept shooting upwards as buttons flew off her torn garments, seams strained, and gave way. "Oh no, stop! Don't do that!" Nivins states in wary alarm as Alice grows right out of the shreds of her remaining clothes until she bursts through the bushes… Stark is raving nude.

Is that why Belle tells me to keep my eyes closed when she changes near me? Morgana thought while gazing at a tinting Alice in a mesmerizing look with Yidhian inside the ring was also face-palming at this situation as despite remembering the talk, she wasn't told the descriptive portions of the body, before declaring a short 'Hey' as Alice hastily made her turn around with the rabbit entertained for a brief moment before distress once again settled in his gut.

Alice then warily looks down at the Red Queen and her courtiers as they see her while coming over to discern what was taking the rabbit so long as, thankfully, the tall bushes hide all but her head and shoulders as they gape.

"And WHAT is this?" Iracebeth demands to everyone as The White Rabbit comes out, improvising like mad to her, "It's a 'Who', Majesty. This is… Um-" Iracebeth made Morgana question some adults in this land as she took his words literally, "Um?" The Red Queen gazed at him before they all turned to Alice while she was trying to be stealthy and sneak around them, "From Umbrage."

"What happened to your garments?" Iracebeth asked her to which Alice hastily stated in a convincing tone the Queen bought, "I outgrew them. I towered over everyone in Umbrage. They laugh at me. So I've come to you, hoping you might understand what it's like."

"My dear girl... Anyone with a head that large is welcome in my court." She tells Alice before they turned to an approaching Red Knight holding Morgana by the arm as she asked firmly everyone to have Alice and those that briefly knew the child, worry about the situation as Morgana was trying yet failing to get out of the Nine of Hearts' hold, "Who or what is this?!"

Alice discreetly surprised the Underlanders as she managed to come up with another convincing tone to the Red Queen with Morgana giving her a mixed look or being thankful and irritable she has to go by her true name, "That's Morgana, your highness. I saved her from a strange beast that took away her parents before arriving here, and I merely forgot her."

Intrigued by the word, beast, the Red Queen places this to the side as she motioned for the guard to let go of the child, which he did without caring to make Morgana glare cutely at him as he left before she turned as the Queen then demanded to her servants to make clothes for Alice.

"You'll be my new favorite." She then tells Alice while Morgana was the only one to see the courtiers with their equally out-size body parts, looked competitive at that, especially the one female as they were then led into the castle while canceling the Queen's Game… For them to duck and weave as Morgana let out a sneeze and made Iracebeth have a gleam in her orbs mixed with brief irritation at seeing one of her bushes began to randomly change colors, particularly the color white, as one of them, before hearing the child's stomach growl.

Sooner than expected, as Alice was being overseen for a new outfit, Iracebeth was with the child as, even though being wary within her presence, she made the Red Queen and nearly everyone gap at how much she was eating her food which was nearly everything she liked from her knowledge on breakfast before one of her Courtiers hushedly told her to recall the race, as it was the librarian one. "My Queen, I believe that this is a Youngling to the Chaos Race… The Chaosarinians to which you recall never returned to Underland for reasons not told." They ducked again with some of the servants quickly putting out the flames to have a glint within Iracebeth's orbs for only for a brief moment from seeing Morgana sneezed from smelling pepper, and began to apologize to them, "Seems she has traits with the forgotten Dark Fey as well, My Queen." The Courtier finished his words after noticing her.

Perhaps she can enter and allow access to my backup plan then, as the day of the war isn't until a few or so days from now. Iracebeth widely thought to herself before heading over to the child and ignored the flinch she gave off when she calmly touched the child's shoulder and not at all noticed an unusual aura dispersed from the ring, "Perhaps before I settle affairs with Um, you would like a tour?"

Morgana while suspicious with also hints of not knowing any better, silently nodded a 'Yes' to her which she was eventually led, personally, by Iracebeth until close to thirty minutes later, came to a mural on the wall to be pleased as this was part of the foundation before she purposely built her castle, as she was told the reason why… The hidden power of sorts was concealed behind it, and only the race with Morgana could reveal it.

The mural, if I could somewhat describe it, was that of a few races that were once part of Underland long ago before abandoning it due to something, not even the Red and White Queens were told. Its design was that of a stained glass window except for the surface being entirely on a dark granite rock, and nearly taking at least thirty or so feet of a single wall.

The mural itself showed within the center Morgana's Race that it was shining in both light and darkness, and on the left were mortals of men and women while on the right a few races, the Dark Fey being one as such as well as Lycan, several races of Vampires along with Elves, and more that would be too lengthy to describe.

Above the races, however, were vortexes of various colors and shown within, briefly, were realms of forgotten cities within a new world. Around the outside within the large mural, were circles of what came across to be more cities as well, and one as such was what the Red Queen loathed as it was her old home of Witzend. There were also on the sides ten sigils that were not realized to them, were the ten basic elements themselves. There were, lastly, words all around the wall itself in an unknown tongue or language, moreover.

The Red Queen shook her large head for a second before gazing at the Youngling as Morgana gently touched it seeing her wariness and fear were currently replaced by utter awe, as those within her ring, her weapon, and her book that secretly saw the mural before going fully back into her pocket to rest, was in wordless awe watching her touched the mural. "Pretty."

"Indeed…" Iracebeth tells Morgana while coming over and gently but firmly grabbing the distracted child's shoulders, and the child didn't feel the warning bells within her due to how distracted she was while being confused, despite hearing Xal'atath telling her things, of the odd words themselves began glowing when she touched with her one hand within the center.

The area then shook and was felt partially all over the castle itself as the entire mural then glowed, and it revealed a secretive passage of sorts that led downwards further into the ground from where her race was.

Morgana was then unknowingly forced to venture downwards into the passageway by Iracebeth as, despite her looks, she does have strength at times.

Mally though was discreetly within the same location and quickly rushed as fast as she could to tell Hatter what she witnessed not a mere few moments later, that same odd mist revealed itself from a painting and stealthily took off after the two females.

Meanwhile within the tunnel, as old torches relit themselves by the sense of Morgana's magic, they eventually, after several minutes of walking from the steps to a very large, cavernous chamber of sorts or in terms, a magical yet hidden grotto.

There is a pond at one end of the large space with the appearance of an odd, silvery underground waterfall and stream, some strange greenery with an inexplicable light source for said greenery, and then by mere sight a lone mystic yet sci-fi-based altar made of some type of black metal with etched runes, and some type of silver ore as well in a design similar to Stonehenge but in a design similar to a full-on circle. On the walls were also drawings as well that seemed to be older than what they witnessed back at the surface, and what appeared to be fancier doors similar to the one-room Alice was in a while ago. However, to mention this, in the center of the altar was an orb-like etched yet polished white stone of sorts with a metallic white gem in the shape of a cloud, stuck in the center of it.

One step was all Morgana took before the two jumped back a step as the earth ripples in familiar green waves of energy and made the pillars of the altar glisten a fluorescent green as hidden by them, the doors dimly glowed before receding as somehow urged, Morgana gradually walked over to the gem itself with Iracebeth concealing a smirk to herself while watching things.

The child then reached over from hints of many whispers telling her to take the gem, which she did… Things began to take another interesting turn of events then.

Firstly, the orb lowers before closing up as each pillar begins glowing once again to make Iracebeth wary for once, and snapping Morgana out of her trance as she was forced to be standing in place while Iracebeth helped as she was sucked into the center with her. Then, the pillars of the altar itself began creaking before they were slowly spinning and making grinding noises with hints of sparks and before long, they were within a glowing green dome of sorts.

What they didn't expect was a slender woman similar to Morgana to show up as a hologram of sorts yet she was also bronze-skinned with crystal blue wide eyes, and she had four tails flowing behind her alongside four sets of seraphim-like grey-colored wings, and wearing a priestess outfit in pure white clothing with silvery accents.

"If you are watching this hologram, then I: Lady Morlina, alongside the rest of our few types of Clans, have been successful at finding a new home to ourselves. I am recording this to whatever of our kind is left within Underland to know a few things." The Hologram began to state gently to no one as the pillars commenced to slow down before stalling and leaving the hologram up then, within the center of the room, "We have left little knowledge as to why we had to leave this realm as before but placed some knowledge of our kind as well. For whoever of our race finds this chamber, is the owner of the treasure we placed in each of the five rooms. The treasure itself is contained within an item we created called Storage Orbs, and they are similar to the Humans contribution of a Chest or Trunk, but they can hold several items. If the activator is young and is more than likely confused, they can merely take the orbs and the instructions as to how to use them."

Iracebeth then had a gleam as hidden within the darkness of the room was the strange red mist as the orbs gleamed from the next set of warning words the hologram gave off to them, as Morgana and those within the ring, her weapon, and the book as it was peeking out of her pocket once again, were stunned by all of this. "The last room, however, is a prison we had no choice but to seclude and separate from said individual we manage to defeat. It is to most people a weapon, but to itself, is more than it seems. Only a Royal of our kind can activate and also defeat it as we hope it is not used within War itself for Underland, but if it's the case... May the Gods help those poor souls."

The two turned one by one, the doors opened except the one door that was dimly glowing as the hologram of Lady Morlina then states in finality to them, "As I leave this message here, I will state that there isn't much within the Storage Orbs, but there is a treasure within the gemstone to activate to whoever may find this chamber, and a gift to which I cannot fathom within the fifth room-" the two jumped at the sounds of recorded explosions and whatnot within the recording as an armored knight came over and quietly told the priestess something as they saw the hologram flicker slightly, "This is the end of the message… I'm sorry." The hologram vanished then.

Iracebeth blinked at what she all witnessed before glancing at the child as she was already moving to the first room before seeing she was going from room to room while pocketing the orbs, as in each room was oddly ash and dust, and concealed bones as well as if whoever was protecting the rooms ended up a dire fate.

Iracebeth understood the child though as she was merely curious instead of wary, as she was sorta like that at her age as she eventually followed her into the fourth room, and blinked like the child at seeing a female in a deep sleep, and also bound in an odd sigil with chains against a wall with an old language, not even Morgana knew.

She (the Demoness) had dark skin like ash, which made her wide-square white eyes and fangs stand out like beacons in her oval face in stilled shock as she appeared to be frozen in time. Her hair was also white, long, along with two jagged dark ivory horns sticking out from the mass alongside a slender yet pointed, matching skin tail in the shape of an arrow at the end. She wore a black leather crop jacket over a black bikini top that her outfit as well went with her toned-slender with a gently curved figure, the sleeves tucked into silver and black gauntlets with talons on the fingers. A black belt with a silver chain attached by a pentagram-marked clip sat on her hips over black panties. Black stockings reached her mid-thigh, two belts on each leg, and her silver boots were knee-high and had greaves. Around her upper left arm was a red band with black "X"s, and her gauntlets had silver poles attached to the forearms.

This was a demoness long ago sent by a particular person for a mission she succeeded before she was framed and betrayed as such, by the name of Judgement… And if you're curious, she's an 84 cm (33), Bra Size 33 D-Cup in both America and Japan, Waist: 59 cm (23), and lastly her Hips are 85 cm (33).

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Let's just say that I would have been whacked by both Pinkie and Deadpool if I didn't mention that, by their recently purchased frying pans of doom from my one story version of Chi-Chi.

Anyways, let's get back.

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Morgana saw the female tilting her head with Iracebeth gaining impatience while being with the child, and she made her give a startled yelp when the Red Queen pulled her while showing her true colors and declared firmly to her, "I grow impatient, Child… Take me to the sealed room."

Morgana while trying to get out of her grip, felt her tail hit something not known to them at the time as that somehow let out a spurt of minor magic from her core, right into the seal keeping Judgement in place, as she was dragged out of the room and into the area once again, as Judgement herself slowly blinked and appeared to be confused before groaning to herself in irony as she pouted while knowing she needed aid to get out of this prison she was in.

With Morgana and Iracebeth, they were at the door and the Red Queen was dismayed with anger as Morgana refused to touch the door at all, "Either open this door or so help me- Knock it off you… You Child?!" Morgana kept hitting the Red Queen with her tail on her head, "No!" Morgana childishly tells the Red Queen while understanding what she wanted before she stiffened and fell onto the ground when her tail was yanked by Iracebeth to then make her smirk at this.

She then firmly held onto the tail while making Morgana forcibly stare at her then, and told her in a sickeningly sweet voice then, "You either open this door or I will do something drastic…" it was then she spotted something on Morgana she kept hidden as a gift from Koneko and went wide-eyed while trying to weakly grab it from her.

It was a small homemade bracelet that, not known to the child, was made from the female Nekotama's very own fur, mixed with a few other unworldly materials she did favors for as tradition of her Clan for Mates/Soulmates… Let's say it would have cost her an arm and a leg to get. Anyways, it was silvery due to the fur used, in color, and had a bronze medal with runes on it and inside, a message is written in the language of demons (underneath it that is) for a personal message, and a rare blue diamond on top of it in the shape of a star.

"Please… Give back." Morgana weakly states in short words and with those in her ring struggling on holding an enraged Koneko by witnessing Iracebeth grinning at the child in a way she wasn't going to do so, "Open the door."

Morgana cutely scowled at her before glancing at it, and blinked while seeing a hidden button on the center of it in which she struggled but pressed it, and the door slid downwards while revealing… "Is that it? You bloody kidding me?!" Iracebeth declared while shoving the child away from her as Morgana tripped over herself at both of them beholding a stained glass jar on a pedestal with a bronze lid, and silvery clasps that are a mix of both Greek and Roman design holding back to what appeared to be black and silvery sand.

She grabbed it while scowling, and turned to the weak-looking child being half-satisfied then, "Well, at least I managed to finally unlock this chamber after all the years I lived here… Get up!" She helped the child up as Morgana was terrified of her which she was pleased about and later on (close to several minutes), she had a few brave guards to keep the chamber secure while she left Morgana near the demon woman to collect her later, and with more food to which Morgana shared.

Judgement, from her words to the child, was sent via her mother, Lucifer, long ago to settle things which escalated to the point the Young Child's Chaosarinian Race indeed left this world, fully, for things she has yet to uncover from the orb labeled as "Knowledge", but she was oddly enough not able to break the demoness out of her binds while informing her a few things about Hell itself.

It turned out both Hell and Heaven were basically one very huge realm-like world called the Afterrealm and held many other parts as well… Including homes to specific Gods or Goddesses while also linked to many Earths, and even entryways to their realms as well in all lores. And there were different types of "Lucifer's" as well within the realm-like world, but not a lot, as her mother's true maiden name, was merely a title and she would only give her true official name to others she truly trusts. Even within the caverns and skies of the world, it holds parts of both Heaven and Hell and their separate universal sectors.

Judgement though was not judgemental (no pun intended) when Morgana asked like a curious Young Chaosarinian she was, but recognized the ring shown on her hand alongside some of what she wears to be perplexed as to how she got them, and some of the guards were being mixed by this as they were even offered the food Morgana had since most of them skipped lunch.

At the moment, Morgana glanced at the guards while feeling her ring vibrate to make Judgement wordlessly wonder as a mini-version of Yidhian around the six-inch size Alice previously was, materialized in a poof of smoke while exclaiming to her then with relief, "Phew! At least whatever was holding us back is gone…" she glanced at Judgement with a grin to confuse the child by her greeting, "Hey Judgey! Been a long time since I saw ya."

"Likewise." Judgement calmly acknowledged while Morgana saw within her eyes to see she was the same as her genie was in the same emotion, and realized by their quiet words was to not attract attention to the guards, but made Yidhian playfully pout by the unexpected smirk on Judgement's face then while trying to point at her, "Seems like that Gypsy was right after all, even though your new Mistress is my Boss' Daughter."

"You don't have to rub it in." Yidhian then groaned back to only keep a smirk on Judgement's face before briefly gazing at the child and knowing that she was a royal, and understood that jar required a jumpstart, but hoping they don't figure out how to, "Well, at least you found a person that can be of use to you, particularly since the last one was close to nearly four-hundred and seventy-two years before."

Morgana balked at this while not hearing a chuckle within her from her weapon and the two others as she innocently expressed to her genie then as said genie, in turn, gave a brief stare at a grinning Judgement then, "You're that old, Yiyi?"

"I'm older than that if you recall me telling ya Squirt. This girlie here," Yidhian began reminding Morgana while pointing a thumb at Judgement to get the demoness to huff while making Morgana quickly stare at her with wide eyes, in shock, "Despite her looks is far older than me." Before Morgana could respond, Yidhian poofed away to perplex them as they saw the guards move to the side while discovering it was the Knave of Hearts, here, and was the one to escort her back.

"Let's go, Child." He states firmly to which Morgana hid a gulp with Judgement narrowing her orbs at the man while she hesitated but gets up, and he quickly grabbed her right wrist while glancing in a gleam at the demoness as she was holding back a growl since the man escorted the child to the Red Queen.

As they went further, the Knave of Hearts had to hold in a groan after realizing that somehow, Morgana managed to get free and grew worried as the Red Queen via her orders was to keep her safe from harm as she was an in-progress Plan C, to the Jubjub Bird's few roosting areas within the halls.

Yidhian, discreetly, has Koneko around the same size temporary as she was (while sending Dani back to where she recalled via the directions to the White Queen), within Morgana's outfit while trying to not blush from feeling her bare skin and hanging on for dear life as the child was near the sleeping bird with a cover over its eyes.

Ilosovic grew wary upon seeing Morgana acting like an innocent yet curious child while she began to remove the blindfold from the Jubjub Bird then, and it instantly screeched right at her face.

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Moments ago or close to several minutes ago with Alice, within the Red Queen's Throne Room:

The Throne Room, to note this to everyone, is where all of the Red Queen's subjects come to greet her.

The throne room is a long corridor with large red pillars reaching up to the ceiling. The throne is also a small, red heart-shaped chair pushed back into a small indent with curtains on either side and a large stained glass window designed with hearts. There are stained windows on the sides of the room giving an illusion of a more spacious feel. The back wall of the entrance has a mural of the Red Queen on the Jabberwocky fighting off a griffin. The middle section of the floor, however, is a checkerboard pattern covered by a red carpet leading up to the heart-shaped stairs where the throne is placed. There are, lastly, two doors on either side of the back wall.

Alice although indeed wore a dress to the Red Queen's desire that was made of red velvet satin. Over the red velvet is white gossamer with black stripes that are frayed at the end as though torn.

She proceeded with the Queen down the great hall toward the throne room. Along with the Foot Frogs, Monkeys hold up tables and chairs with their arms and heads as exhausted birds flap their wings to stay aloft with lamps also hung from their beaks, making Alice hold a wince to that, but wondered where Morgana was or why a monkey servant was also holding an unusual jar of what appeared to be strange dirt, to her.

The Red Queen then plops down on her ornate throne with spider monkeys serving as legs of the throne itself and straining under the weight.

The Queen soon kicks off her shoes with a sigh before commanding loudly to no one, "I need a pig here!" A small pig hurries over and lays down belly up before she puts her feet on his belly and sighs deeply in relief before admitting to Alice, "I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet… Sit! Sit!" She then told Alice.

Alice then sits, trying to keep her weight off the offered chair held up by the monkeys before the Red Queen shortly waves her hand at the three Courtiers that remained. "Go away." The Courtiers go out with dark jealousy while glancing at Alice, which she didn't see and was perplexed in a brief moment at seeing the stained griffin image was blank as if it was cut out.

Alice was then darting her eyes downward to Iracebeth as she told her with an idea shown from her eyes, "Where are my Fatboys? You must meet them! Fatboys!" The Tweedles come in to inwardly make Alice a little upset as they're bound together by a gold belt around their waists, their faces have been painted and powdered with hearts on their cheeks and with red heart lips while their eyes are lowered, downtrodden. "There they are! Aren't they adorable? And they have the oddest way of speaking. Speak, boys. Amuse us." She kicks Tweedledum. "Speak!"

Tweedledum lifts his eyes and he easily sees Alice before nudging his twin, "Is that being…" he then shortly went quiet while noticing Alice lifts a finger to her lips, and yet his twin didn't see the gesture, "Contrariwise, I believe it is so…" "No! It ain't so. Nohow!" He stomps on Dum's foot to silence him. Dum then pinches him while Dee pinches him back.

The Queen laughed raucously at their banter then, and noted to her with humor still detected in her tone, "I love my Fatboys." She then declares right at the two wary twins with her gaze, "Now get out." They go out- "Whoo Hoo!" An unexpected voice that was familiar to the two females shouted while making the twins dodge the incoming child riding the Jubjub Bird as a rideable ostrich, followed by a panting Ilosovic chasing after her.

What the bloody hell?! / Is she riding my Jubjub Bird as a horse?! Both Alice and Iracebeth incredulously thought at the same time with not glimpsing Koneko effortlessly hopping in silent actions and drinking the vial Yidhian gave her as she grew back to normal size along with becoming invisible, and stayed in place.

"Stop! Get off the bloody bird, Child!" Ilosovic yells out with Alice hiding her amusement in different places from one entity smirking along with having a decent conversation with Fluttershy (since he summoned the girls to Salem and select few others), and another while in her domain hid a smirk while talking to her former allies, for a truce, at feeling her child having a good time.

After a few laps all around the throne room, Morgana gently gripped the bird's neck and almost fell off while quickly getting down, and discreetly fed it some bacon she saved for later as to flabbergast the Red Queen, the Jubjub Bird crooned while gently nibbling Morgana's hair before it nearly tripped over the Knave of Hearts as it took off in a sprint, as the bird knew it was forbidden to fly largely within the halls unless informed otherwise.

Despite trying to regain a cool facade, the Knave of the Red Knights was irritable by the child herself as Alice gently picked her up before being perplexed for a moment of why she scooted closer to her from discovering the Red Queen as the Queen herself blinks her eyes seductively at Stayne while also repressing a shudder, and secretly alerts the three by her words to him, "There you are, Stayne. Any luck with the prisoner?"

"He's stubborn." He bluntly informs her then while glimpsing Iracebeth grimace at this bit of news before instructing the guards and telling him, "You're too soft… Bring him!" The few Card Knights go off as decreed while the Knave of Hearts stays behind and finally takes note of Alice. "And who is this lovely creature?" He takes Alice's hand, looking at her intensely.

"Um, my new favorite." Iracebeth states while not knowing any better as Morgana hides a giggle from witnessing the two speak to each other, "Does she have a name?" Alice sensing why the child on her giant lap was giggling, also hid an amused smile then alongside Koneko, "Um." "Yes? Her name?" "It's Um!" "I believe your name has slipped the Queen's mind." He told Alice before Iracebeth smacks him. "Her name is UM, you dolt!" The Knave of Hearts secretly reacts with smoldering anger and sensing this, Alice added then to him, "From Umbradge."

Morgana calmed down then from Alice absentmindedly stroking her back with Koneko memorizing this, decided to leave from discerning her Mate was presently in good hands and decided to explore this place for possible escape routes, and seeing what she could do for Judgement.

"Ilosovic Stayne, at your service." The Knave of Hearts told Alice as he then kissed her hand, and Alice pulled it away hastily before they turned to see the guards drag the Hatter in, chained by hands and feet, and right up to the Red Queen.

The Red Queen then forcibly lifts his head by his hair as Alice stifles a gasp and Morgana had brief hazed orbs before shaking her head, as he's been roughed up alongside his eyes and an empty far-away stare that even unsettled Alice while she oddly felt she never want to catch a glimpse of that again.

"We know Alice has returned to Underland. Do you know where she is?" Iracebeth tried to reason with him but she frowned when he said nothing, and claps her hands in front of his face to jerk him back for only a moment, but didn't see both Alice and Morgana at all and stated mostly to himself, "I've been considering things that begin with the letter 'M': Moron, mutiny, murder, malice…" "Were looking for an 'A' word now. Where is Alice?"

He soon thinks hard about what both Alice and Morgana saw, has an inspiration, changes his mind, reconsiders, mulls, then shrugs. "Who? That wee little boy? I wouldn't 'Know'." Alice was the only one to detect his tone while her heart oddly enough, thumped hard when the Red Queen then told him then with a hidden threat detected within her tone while Morgana scooted further into her hold, "What if I take off your head, will you remember then?"

Morgana jumped slightly from the unexpected laughter coming from Iracebeth as The Hatter laughs louder and keeps laughing, "Stop that." She commanded him yet he only kept laughing- She slapped him hard yet blinked as he just kept laughing madly.

The Red Queen then makes a "Loco" motion to the others with Morgana, to discreetly make Alice wary with hints of surprise, lightly growling at that, but when the Hatter sees Alice, he stops.

Surprised at her new size while glimpsing Morgana with her, he merely gives her a wry smile before he turns to the Red Queen, smarmy and unctuous. "My, what a regrettably large head you have. I would very much like to hat it."

"Hat it?" Iracebeth states to him in a surprised tone, "Yes, I used to hat The White Queen, you know, but there wasn't very much for me to work with, poor dear. Her head is so small." He tells her as Morgana saw like the few others her ego was boosted a bit as she soon agreed with him, "It's tiny, a pimple of a head." Tarrant then motions to her while chained still, "But this... What I could do with this monument, this orb. Nay, this magnificently heroic globe!" Impressed by his words, she curiously asked him then, "What could you do?" He only lifts his bound hands helplessly.

"Unbind him, Stayne! How can he work if his hands are bound?" Iracebeth orders and tells the man as the Knave of Hearts indeed did so with Morgana holding a flinch alongside Alice, and inwardly The Hatter, as he used his sword to easily break the chain as it oddly dissolved into ash.

The Hatter then circles the Red Queen while muttering aloud time himself in observation, "Shall it be a bonnet or a boater, or something for the boudoir?" Morgana gave a look to Alice in worry as he was then growing manic in tone then, "A cloche, dunce hat, death cap, coif, snood, barboosh or pugree, yarmulke, cockle-hat, pork-pie, tam o'shanter, billy-cock, bicorn, tricorn, bandeau, bongrace, fan-tail, nightcap, garibaldi, fez…" Alice quickly pretends to sneeze while holding Morgana's nose as hers was true yet looked relieved, "Hatter!" He jerks back to the moment and responds quickly, "I'm fine. I'm fine."

Iracebeth decided to focus on The Hatter and deal where Alice was for another time, and turned to both the blonde and the Knave of Hearts along with Morgana reluctantly going with a few guards by her orders, to Alice's inner worry that she easily kept hidden, "Leave us… And take the child to my guest room and if she hungers or whatever, see to it!" She paused before adding to Alice then, "We will meet later for dinner, all of us." The Knave is suspicious of the Hatter, but his internal interest in Alice draws him away.

Once they were gone and The Hatter quickly got her measurements and shooed him by a few guards as an escort, she stilled with a few of her guards being alerted by an unexpected voice that sounded like an echo, deep, and also ancient that proceeded to speak to her within the entire throne room. "Why, perchance, you want to waste your time with your Conquest, when more could be offered to you during the War to come?"

"Show yourself, fiend!" Iracebeth declared as an abrupt gust of red-like wind came up and began manifesting into shape within the center, as the guards and even the lone servant monkey as she was merely pacing before all this, held onto that jar for dear life while trying to not drop it, and it took the form of a cloaked specter with glowing red eyes from under the hood from the dark red cloak it wore with it also having black flaming accents on it and with green clouds around the shoulders and rim, and it was providing a black mist from below the robes. "Merely ask and you shall receive, Iracebeth."

The Red Queen stiffened with the guards' hastily pointing their weapons right at the entity to which from the vibe it was giving off, was merely amused before staring right at her as she asked warily then, "How do you come by my name as I never gave you it?"

"I have been within Underland for a long time, and can go as I please… Particularly my topic is for another tale as what you presently hold is more than it seems, and to activate it, is within your grasp." The entity tells her to perk Iracebeth up, and it discreetly smirks at her words then to it in immediate greed and other, "Then tell me."

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Moments ago in the Halls with Alice:

Alice was minding her own business while being wary of the Knave of Hearts, particularly since he was right behind Alice, breathing down her neck.

She then tries to move past him and see what the rest of the Castle has, but he suddenly grabs her arm with the wound and makes her cry out as he pushes her against the wall with surprising strength.

"I like you, Um. I like them large." He then tries to lean in for a kiss just as Lady Long Ears, one of the Courtiers passes, and she smiles and goes off... To only get grabbed by a hidden figure while being taken away somewhere.

"Get away from me!" She kicks him and runs, but was unexpectedly frozen in place by him snapping his fingers as unusual armored creatures appeared while watching him glare at her in anger while also noticing him limp only slightly, "I rather you apologize. Otherwise, things will take a nasty turn for me and my secretive partner, Um."

The several geared creatures have a much more refined appearance than the Red Knights themselves, appearing as a noble knight-type warriors at first glance and yet closer examination reveals they are all far more dangerous than they appear. Their muscular forms while being merely around 4'3 in height, are fully clad in a bluish-black bodysuit-based armor bearing a strange emblem and red inverted emblems trimmed in silver on the knees. They also wear black and brown, silver-trimmed shoes that end in spiral toes, silver wristbands, and a demonic-looking knight's helm decorated with two angular, eye-like spirals on the front and a crimson stripe at the base of the curled plume it has. Its true behavior, to mention it to you all, come out on a close examination of their fierce blue and red-tipped claws, and their shadowy concealed faces with bright yellow eyes and the toothy silver maw.

What is he?! Alice panicked in thought to herself as he snapped his fingers and hid being scared as the bizarre creatures vanished in red plumes of smoke before she took off hastily in worry by his comment to her then as he whistled to himself before heading somewhere, and with a brief dense aura appearing over his frame, "Despite you being attractive, I would watch yourself and those you know… As things could turn for the worst."

With Morgana, she was sighing to herself while on the bed as oddly enough, her latest sneeze changed the Red Queen's Guest Room into her bedroom colors back at her home, but remained as was, and glanced around the room looking bored.

She glanced at the one Red Knight that was a Seven of Hearts and the other being a Two of Hearts, and stated to them as they glanced at her with their helms in perplexed eyes, "Would you two want to play a game?"

Glancing at each other as Morgana hesitated yet pulled the wand Mirage gave her and was wary to use it at times and also used it mainly for her lessons or rare circumstances, and discreetly felt Xal'atath and the book at the sudden connection between the two as she tapped her hand, and blinked as they did as random yet rare red and white zebra roses within a bouquet appeared in her left hand before they burst into black, red, and white butterflies that rapidly went into the halls.

Noticing she impressed them and the wand oddly enough, vibrating as if it was being happy it was finally being in use, decided to entertain herself for the next several minutes while not knowing she was being watched by several others in spectral view as she performed some minor magic to entertain them as being a wand made by a God, it wasn't affected with her not being able to use as a Foci Object as, like the other two, this one was sentient and special all on its own, due to the ingredients it was confidently made out of.

The two guards were then alert before relaxing at seeing Alice, and allowed her into the room with Morgana's mood from going happy to immediate concern for her friend and not seeing the wand being absorbed and became a tattoo on her right arm, and asked Alice then, "Are you ok, Miss Alice?" Alice was about to respond before glancing at the guards that swore to secrecy by the child's insurance and shook her head no.

Alice saw Morgana think to herself deeply before getting an idea and was glad that during her time back in Salem she decided to detach it and pulled out her wristband she got via her first wish, and managed to connect it to the Cave of Wonders via her book and her parents help, and placed it on her right wrist as the gems glowed to alert the guards before everyone but Morgana stilled as a familiar voice then came out and well loud enough to be heard. "Who disturbs my slumber… Oh, it is you, Child. I have yet to thank you for sending those treasures to me."

"No problem, but I was wondering if you can maybe suggest a gift for Miss Alice here?" Morgana told the item with seeing the gems dimly glowing as if in thought with Alice stunned by what Morgana was doing for her as the item spoke once more after thinking for a few minutes and not realizing to the child the Cave of Wonders saw everything, "I may have something that can benefit this Woman before my gaze…" the item shook before spatting right into Alice's hands a necklace made of some white metal, and held a cross-like star as the main piece has an emerald in the center.

"I can't accept this, Mary." Alice began as she could strangely feel it was pleasantly warm to the touch before Morgana shook her head and made Alice reluctantly accept her gift, "It's no big deal, Miss Alice. From what Cave Kitty holds," at that term, they didn't notice the gems shook at that as if the Cave of Wonders may have sighed or sweatdropped to himself, "I want to give you something to maybe help you out. It's not like my wealth is going away anytime soon."

Raising an eyebrow with the two guards overhearing glanced briefly as Alice then curiously asked her then while she was amazed in a secretive sense of the necklace adjusting itself by strange magic around her large neck, and decided to worry about that later, "By wealth… How much wealth?"

It was then she nearly fainted yet kept herself steady and with the guards' eyes bulged to realize she was more wealthy than their serving queen herself since in the past, few others from other countries have come yet perished by either the Red Queen or by other means as Morgana innocently shrugged, and replied, "Close to 500 Trillion Dollars in American Money… What's wrong?" Alice realized in quick math that was close to 444,315,000,000,000.00 in European Currency (or in terms, everyone, around 147,444,085,192,697 Galleons, 13 Sickles, and 2 Knuts) and noticed Morgana's concerned gaze at her once again, stated in a way Morgana believed her, "Nothing. Just curious as to why you have so much in the currency as I oddly believe you are more real than the rest."

Alice was stunned while the child shifted in place, and winced while feeling her belly starting to bloat to stun the blonde at witnessing Morgana hastily excused herself as one of the guards pointed to the bathroom and with the other escorting her, and Alice was concerned at this- "It is rather amusing, is it not, of a rare sight of a Chaosarinian of her race to go through early puberty, and witness their female menstrual cycle." A random voice started to make Alice gaze and gap at seeing a pure white and fully cloaked female gazing at her as she appeared out of nowhere.

"W-Who are you?" Alice warily stated to the female as she chuckled gently before seeing that the guard appeared to be frozen in time somehow, and the female answers her in a way, she was being cryptic, "Someone who has recently been in contact with one other to detect the child, and those who are linked to her."

Discerning Alice's growing alarm, she perplexed the young woman when she snapped her fingers and a wrapped box was on the guest bed followed by another that by the name, had Alice's name fully on it, "Consider this a gift of apology to startle yourself, Alice Liddell… Wait, Kingsleigh?" Alice nodded dumbly while wondering why she was mistaken for another Alice, once again, "Sorry. I knew another Alice and I was on my way to meet an old colleague of mine to give him upsetting news, and hope that the Child could aid what's in her present…" here she paused before she placed Alice's gift into her large hands while secretly smirking underneath her hood, "Well, you may love what's within your large box as I owed a debt to your father, My Lady, as he is back to where he originated as a God anyways."

Alice went wide-eyed at that bit of news with the woman merely shaking as if she was holding back a laugh before gently clarifying the young woman then as she also gently tapped her arm with what Alice saw, was a golden glove with imprints of an eagle's claw on it, as her accent this entire time sounded British of sorts, "He was punished for his previous actions, Lady Kingsleigh, of something he was framed for and was rectified after his unfortunate passing at sea. Whom he is, I cannot say but if something drastic occurs to you… You may need to seek outside the country for help, as your gift contains an item as well that will see to it you will have free access to the knowledge of what you wanted to know."

"Thank you… I think?" Alice states unsurely to hear a light chuckle from the woman before her as she lowered her hood to reveal she looked to be around her age or a few years older and with a mixture of black and silver hair in a short style with her oddly enough, having one small bronze-tinted ram horn on her right side of her head that seemed broken, and in her left a small broken antler that was ivory colored, a delicate oval face with wide, violet and hazel infused cat eyes, and having ashen skin before gently grinning at her with perfectly sharp teeth. "It is my pleasure, as after all… I have one of two daughters to thank for giving me a heads up as to where Miss Potter was at this moment."

Here the woman paused before tilting her head as if she was listening to something before telling her then in a way she was going to leave, "I have to go as I have a feeling things will be complicated as time goes… The odd fellow he is within Underland, but there are things I cannot spoil but you will need your courage when the time comes."

Before Alice could respond, she blinked in a sudden flash and saw that the woman was gone.

Alice was debating on opening it, but decided to open it anyways from her mind constantly hounding her that she would regret it if she didn't open it at all… She was perplexed by the contents that easily fell out of it.

One was a letter addressed to her and for her to only open it once she returns home and was soon making her realize that she isn't at all dreaming about this land, as Alice soon saw her blood when she accidentally nicked her finger on the envelope and witnessed a seal show on the front she never at all recognized.

There were also more wrapped presents with one she gasped as she was stunned by seeing she now owns an extendable bag that's baby blue while looking like what you would see from Mary Poppins, and decided to place her things for later into as she was not only confused by the last gift stating a female name she doesn't recognize as a gift on the third birthday, to which within small honesty that she liked, but with the bag itself storing everything with ease.

"I'm sorry for doing that Miss Alice," Morgana began with the guard that led her and gave the other a wordless look to let Alice realize that time resumed before she paused and asked curiously while going to it on her bed, "Where did this come from?"

"I'm not sure as it appeared on the bed," Alice told her automatically to make her blink while realizing she lied to a child, and wondered why she would do that as Morgana shrugged, and simply placed the gift into her Storage Space before Alice elected to head back to the garden which relieved the guards, as Morgana went with her.

"Despite the Red Queen being scary, she has a nice garden," Morgana commented after easily touching a few rose bushes with Alice wordlessly agreeing with the child as she was searching within the bushes, and eventually found the very same hedgehog they helped out earlier today that was cleaning the caked dirt from its fur before it spotted them.

"Have you seen a hat perchance?" Alice asked the critter gently to make it pause before looking like it recalled something and gesturing to where it saw the item, and Alice without much effort found and wiped the mud off and straightened it out with loving care.

Morgana tilted her head upwards while Alice was distracted and thought she heard a strange melody being played before she blinked and followed Alice back into the castle and if they were watching, a fully black-cloaked figure would be scowling at not trying to nab the child before vanishing into a plume of dark miasma-like purple and red smoke.

Later on, Morgana was forced into a red child's dress that she was not at all comfortable with while she, Alice, and the Red Queen were within the Dining Hall itself and waiting for food for supper… And making things awkward for Alice as she was giving cooking utensils as her silverware.

"Go on, eat. I'm not stopping you." Iracebeth claimed to the girls to make them privately jump before they eventually commenced eating with once again being bewildered at how much Morgana ate and with Koneko still being invisible, confidentially, nabbing some pastries from everyone being distracted and with her inwardly being bewildered at noticing Morgana was briefly glimpsing right at her before lowering her head and making the Nekotama herself glare at the Red Queen from her Mate's immediate shift in mood to realize something occurred earlier, sighed, and took off to deliver some food to Judgement.

Ari, privately without anyone but Alice noticing, secretly appeared and was under the long table and was eating some food in secret while storing most away, and Yidian disguised as one of the Queen's Servants, was secretly sending food to Dani within her ring as well… Despite said girl enjoying her time within the amusement park-based large resort within the ring itself which was soon restocked of random food due to this, and at the same time, perplexing the chief and staff within the kitchens, earlier, alongside some objects only the White Queen would know.

"So tell me, Um," Iracebeth began to get Alice's attention while reluctantly eating her large chicken salad for her size, "How you came to be the size you are like most in Umbridge are carefree and more?"

Alice decided to go with the story Yidhian helped her make up in case this question was asked while Iracebeth added Italian Dressing to her salad and calmly ate it and watched Alice carefully, and the Knave of Hearts merely standing there and observing them eat next to Iracebeth. "I was a normal little girl until an unusual person came to our town, and was secretly causing small tricks and whatnot upon the populace… Even though I helped her, she permanently cursed me to be a giant and I suffered from my size for a few short years before I eventually decided to leave… After they outcast me, that is from a simple mistake from a festival they had."

Iracebeth nodded at this as if it was understandable as in truth, within all of Underland there was a person that has done so in all past time to current, especially giving hinted futures of things to come.

"Indeed Um, but to the matters at hand…" Iracebeth decided to speak up to make her glance at a distracted Morgana as she was still eating food in caution while holding her worry as that same monkey brought back that jar of unusual dirt, "I would need something from the child in case my next big plan for whenever Alice shows herself, comes from a source telling me what to unlock this will be." At the end of her words, she gently tapped the jar's sides with both Alice and Yidhian the only ones to see a dark-like mist of sorts emit within the jar itself before it disappeared within.

Feeling something was off all about what Iracebeth stated, Alice held back a retort and decided to ask warily while discreetly eyeing Morgana, "And what will that be, My Queen?" Alice though felt it was wrong to call the Red Queen that way, but wanted to make sure she was still in quotations, Good Terms, with her.

Before she could answer, there was a sudden large rumble or shake of sorts outside the castle walls to get the Red Queen herself in mixed anger and confusion as she declared loudly to everyone, "What is it? What is going on!"

A random frog servant came rush-hopping into the dining hall and panted out to make them all except a few guards watch over Morgana and the jar itself, "Your Majesty… A monster is… Is attacking the Castle."

Once Alice and the few serving Red Knights alongside Stayne and Iracebeth came to the courtyard with everyone else witnessing it from either balconies or whatever, it was a bizarre yet strange sight as privately hidden, that very same person with the black cloak instantly smirked before vanishing away at sending this creature to distract them.

Its body is divided into several pieces: A body as mentioned, a head, two arms, and two legs to which none are directly connected and all of which (they all saw) can act independently of the other. The Armored Torso is vaguely hourglass-shaped and is silver with a lilac, diamond pattern around its waist, and light black additives. A bizarre or unusual emblem is emblazoned on the center of the armor itself. Its head is violet, spherical, and sports three black as night spikes and a demonic-looking yet silver faceplate with several holes in it. Both of the Gauntlets are violet with wide wrists and three dark green, segmented fingers that look like perfected claws at most. The legs it has are short, dark violet and also end in large, hammer-like, black feet with fire-like designs. And lastly, all of the pieces of the Savage Guard Armor (its name) seemed to be hollow.

The creature shook in place before odd creatures showed up that the Red Knights were soon easily yet kept on defeating.

They somewhat resembled vaguely of a humanoid body structure, but the constant creatures themselves have a round, spherical head with circular, glowing yellow eyes. They also have two long, twisted antennae sprouting out of the top of their heads. Each of their hands has three clawed fingers, and their feet are large and lack any discernible digits. Except for their eyes, almost all of them are wearing odd, crimson spiraled rings of sorts on each of their left arms.

"Don't just stand there! Do something!" Iracebeth demanded before The Knave of Hearts took Iracebeth, reluctantly, back into the castle with Alice not knowing what to do but moved as several of those smaller creatures were trying to stab her, and startled herself as she sent them flying by a sudden gust of wind she sent at them and to stare at her hands briefly as those she sent, was defeated by a few nearby Red Knights before she briefly paled at seeing the larger creature managed to go to the wall containing the Dining Hall and was about to run over there yet was flabbergasted when she saw the creature topple over from seeing or merely guessing, the child sending a sneeze-like blast of flames at the creature, and with then seeing Koneko suddenly materialize beside her.

"My Mate is powerful even if she doesn't know it." Was all she said mainly to herself aloud to make Alice gap before seeing Yidhian appear on the large suite of armor's left side before baffling Alice once again at how effortlessly she sent the entity several miles off into the outskirts as she ran after it.

"So is her genie," Alice decided to honestly tell the Nekotama as they went through the broken wall and saw Morgana was being held by Judgement in an awkward yet trying-to-comfort pose and with her soon giving 'Help me' gestures as the red dress Morgana was wearing was ruined alongside most of the room itself.

Judgement was freed somehow by a white-cloaked entity assisting and vanished and ended up defeating the wannabe kidnappers of the child and sending that black-cloaked person away.

Sooner than later and with Morgana vouching for Koneko as hers, and making the Red Queen reluctant to accept her into her domain as well, Morgana was passed out in the one room with her coughing though as it seems she was getting sick, and the Nekotama herself stayed by her side as Alice was somewhat uncomfortable about Judgement and finding out who the child's parents are, magic wise, and sighed as the demoness herself eventually left to go give an overdue report and easily carrying the orbs that Morgana told her to give to her Mater (Mother) she retrieved to maybe figure it out, as the instructions were written in a way she didn't understand, which sadly everyone, was written in her race's language.

"Was it something she ate?" Alice decided to ask Koneko as she indeed fetched a few light red wash clothes and managed to get them damp enough for the Nekotama as she wordlessly took them and was also dabbing the slowly healing cuts her mate has on her bare arms and legs, "I do not know. If it was onions, it would be possible as her kind end up becoming sluggish and more if they consume them, sorta like particular Oni Demons. But this isn't the case as she is sick, but I truly don't know."

Koneko's answer didn't settle Alice at all while she sighed before getting up and saw the teen glance at her before paying attention to Morgana as she told her then, "I'm going to check on Hatter… I hope he's ok from what the Red Queen has done." She then left with Morgana twitching a few times in pain to make the Nekotama worry to herself as there was nothing she could do about this odd illness her Mate has, and how long her genie would get back.

Not known to her, it would not be here but at another location.

Within the Red Queen's Bedchambers, however, The Queen herself stands at the window and overlooks the damage those creatures have done and even to her precious dining hall before telling the Knave of Hearts firmly, and getting back on task. "You must find Alice, Stayne. Without the Jabberwocky, my sister's followers will surely rise against me…" here she then gained a bitter tone, "My ugly little sister… Why do they adore her and not me?" Iracebeth then heads to her balcony overlooking the bloody water with the heads of many she ordered their heads off.

Stayne soon comes up behind but does not touch her as he then tells her then, "I cannot fathom it. You are far superior in all ways."

As they were on the balcony, Nivins was on a secretive mission as he peeked through the Queen's door there were three monkeys one was now on the ground and still holding the jar of unusual dirt, and the two others holding a metallic platform with it holding the one scroll.

"I know. But Mirana can make anyone fall in love with her: Men, women, even the furniture." She glances at the captive animals/furniture with her not witnessing Nivins at all, to his partial relief as the Knave of Hearts spoke to her then, and getting a brief bitter smirk on Iracebeth's face at them, "Even the King."

Iracebeth's dark, bitter gaze soon travels down to the grim moat below her balcony and told Stayne in bitter honesty. "I had to do it. He would have left me."

"Majesty, isn't it better to be feared than loved?" Stayne asked with Nivins at this point, taking the scroll and thanks to the genie earlier, replacing it with a fake, and scuttled quickly away as she sighed before telling the man before him once more, "I'm not certain anymore. Oh, let her have the rabble! I don't need them…" she paused before she leans her large head back and with her eyes big and dewy looking, "I have you. I do have you, don't I, Stayne?" He manages a smile but gives her no reply.

The Knave of Hearts then presents her the ruined red dress Morgana wore to which she then had a glint about in her orbs as she saw the still fresh blood on them, and for once Stayne was rather surprised as she did a brief thank you, to him, before taking it and was glancing at the jar of dirt which she dismissed the three monkeys for.

"Majesty… What does this jar do?" Stayne asked her in a truly honest yet curious tone to get the Red Queen to only respond as she touched the specific sigils the lid has to finally open the jar and placed the bloody parts of the red dress into it before closing as the dirt soon absorbed it and was soon glowing dimly, "In due time, my lovely Stayne. In due time my backup will be in place, as this will make sure my rule is final within the entirety of Underland."

Meanwhile, within one of the few Red Queen's dressing rooms Iracebeth owns, Alice managed to finally find The Hatter as she entered the room while he hums as he works with ribbons, bows, veils, and feathers.

"They're wonderful! You must let me try one on." She eventually tells him as he soon puts a hat on her while placing his hat down on a box close by. She eventually poses like a grand lady before she puts one on him. He then poses like a grand lady too. They laugh as they do this several times or so within a small amount of time. And oddly enough, enjoying themselves.

"It's good to be working at my trade again." Tarrant admits to Alice then as she wore a decent-looking bonnet hat he made, and Alice was happy for him before she realized and decided to solemnly state today get him to pause in making another hat, "It's just a pity you had to make them for her." Realizing what he's done, he's suddenly filled with remorse and self-recrimination, despite him for once feeling happy by being near Alice. His clothes are "Slump" as well. "What's the hatter with me? The hatter... Mmmmm. Mmmmm, ma, ma."

Fury unexpectedly seizes Tarrant at his actions as he takes scissors and murderously attacks a hat, cutting it to shreds, then another and another- "Stop! Stop!" Alice tells him in true worry as she soon takes his face in her large hands, and forces him to look at her. "Hatter!" Even though he was chained by his ankle to the nearby workbench he was using, he struggled in place.

Looking into his eyes, she can easily see the fear in them. "Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk? I'm frightened. I don't like it here, terribly crowded. Have I gone mad?"

Alice soon feels his forehead, like her father did years ago when she was very young. "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret… All the best people are." He straightens his shoulders with pride and something else Alice didn't notice within his eyes at her as his clothes puff up. "Oh, look! Here's another one." He was confused before she picked up his hat from behind a box she placed. His eyes fill with unexpected emotion to see it as the blonde puts it on his head. "That's better. You look like yourself again."

He's too overwhelmed to speak as, within him, his heart oddly thumped like Alice's did as he soon takes it off and holds it to his heart with gratitude.

"Hat Man! Where are my hats? I am not a patient monarch!" The Red Queen unexpectedly shouts to make them privately jump in place and ruin the moment between them as Iracebeth's grating voice reminds him of his purpose. "I'm told she keeps the Vorpal Sword hidden in the castle. Find it, Alice as the White Rabbit will help you. Take it to the White Queen. Help us make the world right again."

Alice glances at the long thick chain from his ankle to the wall and considers another use for the sword. "We'll go to the White Queen together." He soon takes her hand as there's another moment between them that might have been something more if it weren't for her large size. "Why is it you're always too small or too tall?" She let out a smile before stunning him as he didn't think she is the one person to figure out the impossible riddle him before she left, "Hatter, The Raven, and A Writing Desk are the same as they don't only produce inky quills, but because they can produce a few notes, though they are very flat, and it is never put with the wrong end in front!"

As Alice left the Hatter froze before he turned to see an unexpected person he has not seen in a long time as the last time he saw this man, was when he was ten years of age and was secretly distracting the Red Queen within the halls, "She is a bright woman, Alice is, isn't she Hatter?"

"Indeed, Sir… May I ask why you decide to come back?" Tarrant asked with him being wary as the man let out a soft chuckle before inspecting the wears he made for Iracebeth, and distractingly answered as he picked up one that held flowers on it, "Nothing more than to wait and see the war to come, Tarrant Hightopp. Though I have to be true in an honest way, it will be different than you were told as I have foreseen it… Just like I had foreseen and saw the unfortunate outcome of two Queen's past as I told their parents back then."

The Hatter went wide-eyed at that as the man placed the hat down before looking right at him and told the red-haired male firmly yet Tarrant saw he also held soft eyes at him for, "Alice is indeed destined to slay something but not to what you expect, as the prophets may have mixed your knowledge of the prophecy itself up and caused the outcome to which lays before you to be true… I highly suggest you return her feelings as she will do so unto you, Hatter. As love is delicate in all boundaries, and I should know personally."

Tarrant bowed his head in brief thought yet when he raised his head he took a step back to see the man was gone, alongside a few of the flower hats he had.

At this point within the upstairs hall, Alice finds and approaches the Tweedle Brothers who are stationed on either side of the Queen's courtroom door. "Tweedles!" Tweedledee responded in kind, "Alice!" They then shake her hands vigorously with Tweedledum telling her, "Howdoyedo again."

"Where's...?" Alice trailed off at not seeing him as Tweedledee asked her with a smile, "How is it you're being so great big?" His brother then told him off, "She ain't great big. This is how normal she is." "Where's the-" Alice tried to ask them yet it was to no avail, "I'm certain she was smaller when we met." Tweedledee argued, "She had drunk the pishsalver, to get through the door, recall it?" She then had enough and puts her hands over their mouths and asked, "Where's the Rabbit?"

They both point in opposite directions and tell her to make Alice sigh, "OVER THERE!" Alice follows the Tweedles for the last ten or so minutes within the halls of this maze-like castle until she finally sees not only the white rabbit himself, but the Dormouse, dressed as a chambermaid with her also whispering with the White Rabbit.

"What are you doing here?" Mally states to her in utter surprise as Alice responds to her then, I'm rescuing the Hatter-" "That's what I'm doing!" Mally stated to her as Alice sighed but then explained to her to get their attention, "But you can help. He told me that the Vorpal Sword is hidden in the castle."

"I don't take orders from big clumsy, galumphing…" Alice looms over her before she points imperiously. "Shoo!" Humiliated but outsized, the Dormouse stalks off.

The White Rabbit is still there as the Twiddles left to find and maybe tell the child and Catgirl it was almost time to leave, and Alice seeing him looking nervous, asked him, "What is it, McTwisp?"

"I know where the Sword is." Appeased by this, Alice then wondered while stating it to him, "Why didn't you say so?" She looked sheepish then by his answer, "You'll hit me again." Alice sighed to herself before honestly telling him as they then took off, "I won't hit you!"

If they were paying attention, that very same red mist was above them and if it could, smirked before roaming the castle still.

Sooner than later, the pair came to the stables (same as the movie) and stood in front of them. "The Sword's hidden inside," Nivens tells her as Alice opens the door… They both react to the unexpected stench. "I know that smell." She looks inside the stable and sees the Bandersnatch laying in the stall with her huge ugly head on her paws. The female beast moans as the socket with the missing eye ooze blood.

Alice gasps and hastily closes the door as The White Rabbit ducks to avoid another hit. "I'm not going in there! Look what that thing did to my arm." She shows him the wound to startle her, it's larger and very swollen to make him gasp and state in worry, "Dear oh dear! Why haven't you mentioned this?"

"It wasn't this bad before." He only twitches, breathing fast, flapping his paws, and faints. Alice looks back at the door, considering as she heads back into the castle with her being stopped by Koneko who saw her state, wordless nodded before telling her in a way she was somewhat relieved of this, "I will gather my Mate around as she is still in her state of distress… Get what you need to get done, Human."

Alice continues after that and eventually sees Mally studying a decorative sword on the wall. "Mallymkun! Do you still have the Bandersnatch eye?" Mally while irked she was called by her full first name, hiked up her maids skirt to not only reveal her breeches beneath but to see the eye was still on her waist, "Right here."

"I need it," Alice tells her as she tries to take but for only The Dormouse to swat her hand away. "Get your own!"

"I need that eye, Mally." Alice tells her as Mallymkun draws her hatpin sword, brandishing it dangerously and making things harder for Alice to get her task at hand done, "Come and get it." In honesty, she's much, much smaller than Alice with a tiny weapon as Alice laughs, and soon Mallymkun realizes the absurdity "Right."

Before she could take action, Alice snatched the eyeball from her and went away while ignoring the words of the mouse as she was soon at the stables once again, and hesitated for a moment before going inside the female beast's stable.

Alice approaches the Bandersnatch as she growls with the blonde telling the beast, "I have your eye." And to prove it, she holds it up in plain sight. Seeing her lost eye, the Bandersnatch whines with a growl mixed as she gently rolled it to her and while she was distracted, Alice goes to the back of the stall.

She sees a chest covered by a tarp. So she removes the tarp to reveal an ornate metal chest secured with a large lock.

Disheartened and feverish, Alice slumps to the ground before she pulls her sleeve back to look at the swollen, infected wound on her arm. She touches it and stifles a cry of pain.

Alice then glances at the Bandersnatch, still busy with her eye with her soon sweating and shivering like Morgana was while she pulls at the lock. But her vision goes dim. She then blinks, shaking her head before the world goes black.

Within the Queen's dressing room that Hatter was made a prisoner inside, the Queen's trusted servants fidget as if they're very uncomfortable as they watch her try on hat after hat that Tarrant places on her head. "You are stunning in that current hat!" The Big Belly man honestly told her with The Hatter taking it off and dumping a large-brimmed hat on her then that covers half her face. The Big Nose Woman then tells her about her opinion to which Iracebeth ponders, "Your Majesty has never looked better." Her "Nose", however, falls as she bobbed her head to agree wordlessly as if it was the truth, and Iracebeth not witnessing it, lands on her shoulder.

The Hatter notices this with narrowed orbs briefly on his face and tells her to make the woman soon grab it as she felt her normal nose beforehand, "I don't wish to alarm you, but it smells like you dropped something." After she grabs the fake nose and turns away quickly. The Hatter could then easily see straps above the Big Belly's Man's pants which hold his fake protruding belly in place and figured the rest were the same with their parts.

The woman turns back with her long nose reattached as Tarrant soon laughs out loud, and not a mad laugh but with genuine amusement.

They gazed at him in bafflement as Iracebeth stated then to them in a way they were somewhat relieved, "Never mind him. He's mad." It was then that Lady Long-Ears decided it was time to tell her Queen her news, demoness is damned via tortur- I mean persuasion, and whispers into the Queen's ear… "STAYNE!" Iracebeth shouted in utter anger and was stunned by what she was told.

Within the Stables, however at this point, and as it was morning, Alice grudgingly wakes up to soon hold back a scream at The Bandersnatch looming over her as it seems the female beast herself managed to shove the eye back into the previously empty and bleeding socket as the eyeball itself seemed to be staring upwards uselessly, but by what Alice was seeing, she seems to feel better for having it back in place.

It was then Alice took notice of the large key on a chain hung around the female beast's neck and realized it was the very key to the lock.

She tries to weakly reach for it before feeling drained by said action alone and stiffened instantly as The Bandersnatch sniffs her arm and the wound she inflicted, and she winces but will not be deterred as she weakly grabbed the key and pulled it gently off.

The Bandersnatch to astound Alice right now then gently licks the wound as her tongue is oddly enough, soothing to make Alice sigh in place and without much of a choice, to allow the creature to lick the wound clean.

Alice then looks at it and sees the effects as if by a miracle, getting rid of the infection and the swelling to soon leave three traces of the claw marks on her arm as visible yet healed scars. She then moves it around with more energy returning to her entire body while no longer feeling weak, and with no pain.

The Bandersnatch looks at her, one eye askew before it then fitted into place and looked alive to realize the beast has some kind of regeneration abilities and stated to her softly with The Bandersnatch wordlessly nodding her head to her. "I suppose you think this makes us even now."

Alice gets up then and fits the key into the lock on the chest and opens it before lifting the Vorpal Sword and examining the unusual runes it has as she carries it out of the stall, glancing back at the Bandersnatch before going out, and did a double-take at seeing a gruntled Koneko carrying on her back Morgana as she was still passed out, but her tail was swishing and whacking the poor Nekotama's sides here and there.

"Stay with The Bandersnatch, as I go and free The Hatter," Alice told her gently to which Koneko nodded once with the creature herself amused at seeing a youngling like her handling the situation so maturing in nature.

Back within the Great Hall, however, The Knave of Hearts was on his knees before the Red Queen herself and talking fast in a convincing lie to her, and even fake-begging her as well, "Um forced herself on me. I told her my heart belongs to you. But she's obsessed with me." The Red Queen goes bright red with rage then and stands up hastily while shouting in order, "Off with her head!"

It was several minutes later within the one dressing room Hatter was in that The Dormouse tried to pick the lock to the chain around Hatter's ankle with her hatpin- "Stand back, Mallymkun." The Dormouse and the Hatter look up to see Alice victoriously holding the Vorpal Sword high over her head. "How's this for 'Muchness'?" She brings the sword toward the chain- "Stop! It mustn't be used for anything but-" Tarrant began to state to Alice to make her stop mid-swing before they all soon see Stayne stride in with his Red Knights.

The Knave of Hearts then points to Alice before stating in a false claim, "Arrest that girl for unlawful seduction."

"Hatter!" Mally tells him as she tosses the Hatter the decorative sword from the hall she was going to show off that was better than her previous one as he then soon fights with Stayne to the point, that he is formidable even while chained.

Mally quickly begins stabbing the Knights with her hat pin with once again Alice proceeds to swing the Sword- "No! Take it to the White Queen!" Hatter tells Alice determinedly with her fearing the worse with her heart feeling dread at not doing anything, she declares to briefly touch him while dodging a stab from Stayne, "I'm not leaving without you!"

It was then Mally made a mistake by telling her off, "Alice! Go!" Mally covers her mouth from her mistake as Stayne stops dead-swing to stab the Hatter and looks at her with a sudden revelation. "Alice?"

"RUN!" Both Mally and Tarrant shouted at Alice with her giving them a distressed look before doing so, "SEIZE HER! CHECK THE CHILD!" Stayne tells his Red Knights as they nodded with half going after Alice, and the other going to check where the child is.

A few minutes of running to the Stables later, she bursts out of the back. Stayne and the Red Knights are just behind as she runs, dodging them. But they manage to surround her while she tries to swing the sword to keep them back.

"Alice. Of course! Why didn't I see it? Well, it has been a long time... And you were such a little tyke then... Give me the Sword." Stayne stated before ordering her to do so as she shook her head and told him and the Knights off, "Stay back!" He immediately distracts her as two Red Knights come up behind. "The Queen will be so pleased. She'll take great pleasure in taking off your head. I believe she wants to do the deed herself."

As the Red Knights grab her there's a deep yet unexpected, thunderous growl as The Bandersnatch runs at them, biting and snapping to the point the few who have hold of her, release Alice and back away as some were sent away by force by Koneko sending unusual orbs of energy at them as The Bandersnatch lowers his head for them to climb onto with Koneko adjusting Morgana's hold onto herself, and making both Stayne and the Red Knights astonished.

The Hatter though while in prison, heard Alice's shout to swell his heart even more for her as she declared loudly to the Red Knights and Stayne, "Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid!" She and the others then swiftly leave through the downed drawbridge with the guarding Red Knights abandoning their posts due to fear.

Unexpectedly yet she noticed, that Bayard was waiting on a nearby hill. He sees the Bandersnatch with Alice and both Morgana and a catgirl on her back. He runs out to meet them. "Ho, Alice!"

Alice though saw Koneko's stressed state and Morgana's conditioning worsened as she looked paler than ever she saw the child and was sweating and twitching in place as she hastily declared to make the bloodhound nod once as he did so, "Bayard! Take us to Marmoreal!"

Moments later within the Red Queen, Stayne was getting slapped silly by him telling her that Alice escaped and other things.

"How could you let this happen?!" Iracebeth stated with Styane ignoring the slapping pain he received as he told her then, "We underestimated her, Majesty. It will not happen once again as we have her conspirators." At this, this perked up Iracebeth while angry still to get the Knave of Hearts to understand she's gotten her undivided attention to him, "It was both The Hatter and The Dormouse."

"Off with their heads!" She declared with them stilling as they saw the red mist and it easily landed while chuckling at their misfortune, "It seems that you may require assistance in obtaining a weapon? Or perhaps other things?"

Iracebeth though made the entity's eyes roll with it secretly glancing at Stayne as he did an unseen nod at it by her words, "No. I just want to see the two dead first before we march off to war…" She then left the two for her to eventually let out her fury in her bedroom.

"So… Things are in place then, Sir?" The Knave of Hearts decided to ask the specter to which he heard it chuckle ominously before seeing him nod with the hood he or it has, "Indeed it has come, as she is gullible to the point she doesn't realize her own doing will be the downfall of this Underland as I intend to do so, once she recites what I told her for said day… If it occurs, partner," the entity turned to the Knave of Hearts then, "Our deal will be upheld and you will be the King of New Underland, as agreed."

Stayne nodded as he snapped his fingers and more of those creatures of before appeared as he ordered them then, and they oddly enough, sunk into the ground as he recalled something from a previous war long, long ago in the records, "Go and find the Forbidden Caverns… It holds an item I need as you will see the item itself that it's not covered in debris."

As they left, the entity had glinted glowing eyes briefly at knowing what "Tomb" the Knave of Hearts was talking about and left as a mist to await the backup plan from the Red Queen.