Wandering in Wonderland IC ~Accepting~

[CuteLilRedhead]

[Rated M for violence, language, and possible PDA]

Mad Hatter sat with her tea cup. Just staring into the tea. Her green eyes dark as she whispered riddles that had no meaning. Riddles that had no answer just words mushed together. Hatter rocked back and forth trying to figure out where her sanity had gone and where she might had lost it. March was no where to be found since Alice had left and Dormouse, she thought, had ran away to the real world. Though she couldn't know for sure. Things in Wonderland were dark now. No one could be trusted and friendship was avoided. The land of happiness and bliss was now corrupted and dismayed. Looking up at the sky, Hatter laughed, the sound so chilling that she lost herself even more. She laughed because, she was starting to like it.

[Marilith]

"97... 98... 99... 100! READY OR NOT, HERE I COOOME~!!!"
As the cry rang out around the beautiful garden, Tweedledum (called "Deb" because Dum was such a terrible name) moved away from the tree that she had been standing against with her eyes covered and began to move out, scanning around the oddly lush place, eyes peeled for movement. Hide-and-seek was the only game that she routinely lost -just as cards was the one she routinely won- but today she was going to beat Dee and show that she was the best at games!

"Oh Dee~" she called as she walked, her voice light and airy, high-pitched and bringing to mind images of a youthful little girl, so full of innocence and love, "I'm going to find you Dee~ You know I will..."Her head whipped to the left as she heard a sharp tittering in the rose bushes nearby, and in a flash she leaped towards it, crying out triumphantly. However it turned out to simply be a pair of nobles in an illicit affair, so with a raised eyebrow she turned away and began to search again.

This time she began to follow a soft voice -that was instantly recognisable as her sisters- and as she followed the voice she recognised what was being sung and smiled. It was a song from the beforetime -that was how the girls pictured it- and one of their favourite ones. Before the Red Queen came to power they would sing it together as they went to sleep, but now...

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row."

"Got you!" she cried out, leaping into another rose bush, but when nobody was there she blinked in confusion. Turning around, she walked back out of the rose bush, then jumped several metres in the air in shock as a hand tapped her on the shoulder.
"I win again." Dee said simply, rising from her hiding place in the dirt in the bushes, "And apparently someone said the Queen is looking for us. I forgot they said that when we started playing."
Nodding, Deb and Dee began to make their way to where they assumed the Queen was, arm in arm and humming as they went.

[Higurashi]

Murder was walking through the forest, looking here and there behind trees. It may have seemed to be odd behaviour, but he had a reason. He was looking for the Tweedle Twins. It was darn hard to find the two of them. They were always running around where they shouldt be, playing games. There had been time in Wonderland for such things in a time passed, but no longer. Murder was on serious buisness, and he didn't want to be fooled with. The Queen was always a witch when he wasnt on time.

Gradually, he heard humming and footsteps through the silent forest. He faded into the shadows, going after the sounds. In a minute or so, he saw the twins prancing merrily through the forest. Murder frowned to himself. What were they doing? Why would these two be simply messing around when they were summoned by the Queen? To make matters worse, they were moving along and making loud noises as they went. 'Those two are going to get themselves killed by something, cant have that,' he thought, sighing to himself. Already he could see a creature, a carnivor most likely, creeping up on them.

Fading back into the shadows, he made his way into the trees silently. Just as the beast was about to jump the oblivious pair, he came down out of the branches, using his huge sword to bisect it from its head to its tail. The creature simply toppled over in two halves into the underbrush. The danger wasnt over yet. Scavengers would smell the blood and come running. Turning around to face the twins, he sheathed his sword and grabbed a twin with each hand, dragging them along towards the Red Castle in a vice-grip.

[AliceMalice15]

White and Crowe sat just below one of White's oh-so-famous rabbit holes. White sighed and began kicking her feet impatiently while Crowe merely sat and stared silently up at the hole. They were waiting.

"What are we even waiting for Crowe," White asked anxiously, "what if a red patrol comes this way? Maybe we should go see Hatter. She's probably getting pretty lonely with March and the doormouse gone a days. I don't think anyone's coming back...."

Crowe merely shook his head once. He could feel someone was going to come. White sighed and leaned against his back. She really hoped something would happen soon. Waiting was so boring. She did suppose that if Alice came it wouldn't be so boring though. She might actually make things better. It wasn't easy to sneak around under the queen when it meant you couldn't run. Crowe was the only reason she hadn't yet been caught.

White turned around and hugged Crowe. She was glad she had him around. He was the only "family" she had left that still trusted her. Hatter didn't trust anyone and everyone else pretty much was either the same or they were with the red queen. It was tough not being able to play with anyone any more. Stinking Red Queen.

[Marilith]

The twins hadn't actually been as unaware as one would think, and as they hummed and skipped their way through the forest around them they had picked up on the creature as soon as they had smelled it's foul breath. There was a reason they were still alive after so long here in the torturous world of "Wonderland" after all, and it was the ability to detect those things that would attempt to pray on such innocent and sweet girls that put them ahead of the rest of the rabble - and the ability to totally beat down anyone who got in their way was the other. Of course they preferred not to fight and they infinitely preferred it when everyone got along, but theirs was not a true unawareness.

They just seemed that way.

Still it was a surprise to them when the thing suddenly gave off a sound that definitely wasn't natural and as they turned to see what had happened to it -for they had been wanting to 'play a game' with the thing- they were suddenly and very rudely grabbed by a hand each and dragged along by a familiar figure, one they hadn't expected to see.
OK that was a lie, they had totally expected to see him since Dee had remembered they'd been summoned, but it was still annoying to be totally grabbed like that and hauled unceremoniously along like a pair of bags of flour.

"Murder!" Deb cried out in annoyance, her hand somehow slipping from the man-things very tight grip as thought it had become rubber, "You can't go around doing that! We're going to see the Queen!"
"Coming or going, It's always snowing, in the winter of Murder's heart," Dee said in a sing-song voice as she too displayed the ability to simply remove her hand from the rude grasp, "But that doesn't mean you have to be rude!"

And with that, they linked arms again, kissed each other on the cheek and began to skip along, humming once more and beckoning over their shoulders for Murder to come along.

[Ambassador Fish]

Dart bound around the tea table. She knew things were bad in Wonderland right now but she couldn't help but keep a smile on her face. Of course everyone had once told her that spending so much time was making her half mad. Well now she was almost completely sure that she was more than just half mad. This thought made a long shrill laugh push itself out of her lips. Ger back haunched over and she plopped herself down into the chair at the opposite end of the table. "Riddle me this. Riddle me that. Where is the magnificent vanishing cat" She hissed through her teeth letting another loud laugh belt from her mouth and a grin spread on her face.

She slammed her hand down on the table then picked up a teach cup lifting it to her face to drink from before she looked in and saw nothing there. "Well oh my, the teas gone." She gritted her teeth reach for another cup. Her favorite time of day to get her mind off of the rest of the things going on in Wonderland.

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The red queen demanding a pig for her feet as she sat down at her over sized throne. "PIG! For my feet, PIG!" She belched out and looked around at her singing frogs and what she thought of as fearfully loyal servants. "I think its about time we all ate don't you?" She said looking over to a frog she knew had taken some of her food earlier that day. She hated when people took things from her. She gritted her teeth together and squinted her eyes, hopping up from her seat. "Off ..." She stopped before she saw the frog next to him licking at the corner of his mouth. "Off with BOTH of their heads!" She screamed and watched the red cards come running in to take away the two frogs. This brought a smile to her a face and a chuckle through her throat.

[Higurashi]

Murder winced when the pair managed to slip from his grasp. Rubbing his hands unconciously, he grimaced. The pair had always been tricky. Ever since Murder had met them, they had been avoiding his sword. Murder remembered and thought about that day even as he followed along after them.The pair... intruiged him. Hefting his sword again, he let it rest on his shoulder as the unlikely treo headed towards the Red Castle...

A while ago in Wonderland Forest...

Murder had been walking along, seething in rage. This was shortly after when he was newly 'born', and his hatred was boiling over at the world. In his wake was a trail of dead bodies, a number of beasts, bi-pedal beings, and even a few of the Red Cards. The ground wilted around him, some peices of drier shrubbery bursting into flame. Delicate flowers were trampled underfoot as he stomped along. Animals were fleeing from him in blind terror. His sword flashed in the light, hewing bark, foilage, and bone.

Then, he had come upon the Twins. They had been playing a game as they usually did, apparently paying no mind to the miriad of activity as the wave of fleeing animals passed by. The game they were playing apparently consisted a combination of tag and hide-and-seek. Dee was currently the one hiding, and she was winning, not that Murder noticed.

"Dee-e-e~," Deb had called out. "I'm gonna find yo-o-o-u. There's no use in hiding! I already know ex-act-ly where... you... are!" At that moment Deb leaped into the bushes, in the totally wrong place. Deb came out of the bushes with a disappointed look on her face, only to find a sword flying out of Murder's hand to bisect her head. In an instant, she wasn't where she had been, appearing out from behind a tree nearby. The sword had instead thunked into a tree, nearly cutting it in half.

Dee appeared from out behind the same tree, tut-tutting at Murder with a wagging finger. "Thats not polite mister!" she had exclaimed. "You nearly hurt my sister. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings' horses, And all the kings' men. Had scrambled eggs, For breakfast again..." She giggled at her own joke. THey both knew Humpty Dumpty, and he hated the constant jokes about his 'incident'.

Coming back to the present, Murder saw that they were about to reach the Castle.

[Marilith]

It had been a pleasant enough walk, though Murder was woeful company for the girls and they had lapsed into their own sort of pseudo sign-language to speak to each other, using one hand to chat as their others were linked so intricately.
"He's positively ghastly!" Dee signed, her bright smile and supposedly carefree exterior belying the harsh nature of her words, "And he's babysitting us! I think we should play a game on him!"
"Oh yes let's do!" Deb almost clapped in delight but realised quickly that would give them away, "It would be ever so much fun!"

Giggling, they put their heads together for a very quick kiss, nothing more than a peck on the lips, before they each turned and bolted in opposite directions, laughing merrily as they did.
Oh they had seen the castle, but they simply thought it would be more fun to play hide-and-seek with Murder instead. The Queen would be angry sure, but it wasn't like she could hurt them, nor would she - they were too valuable, though they still didn't understand exactly how. No, to her they were pawns somehow -or maybe knights or bishops, or maybe they were the kind of chess pieces who constantly changed- and while they wanted to know why she had them, they were still clueless.
But they'd find out eventually.

Tweedle-Dee, though she hated her full name, had taken off to the left, her feet beating a swift pattern along the ground at first, but as soon as she had seen a useful hollow in a tree she had dived into it, then split herself, one coming out and running off in the same direction while the other buried down into the ground, came out in a different spot then ran off again. Each copy did this twice more as well -and the copies doing it too- leaving a full compliment of eight Dee's running through the forest gaily, laughing loudly and slipping past any atrocities that came their way with movements that could only be described as surreal.

As for Tweedle-Dum, though she hated her full name even more than her sister, she had instead chosen to clone herself into differing elements. As soon as she had needed to change direction or risk running into a tree, she had instead run through the tree somehow, with the tree itself transformed into another one of her and running in a different direction. Thus, each time Murder would touch one of the now eight Deb's running around the copy would wink at him and simply return to it's previous form - be it a copse of leaves, a tree, a rotted stump or, in one case, a very confused badger.

It was such a fun game!

[AliceMalice15]

White sighed anxiously and glanced at her quite large gold pocket watch. Seeing the time she gasped and lept to her feet causing Crowe to fall over.

"Aw no," White groaned, "she's late! I'm late! Shoot! Come on Crowe! We gotta get to Hatter's place. I promised her I'd be there for tea time. Now I'm late. Come on."

White took off towards Hatter's at full sprint leaving behind a thick cloud of dust. Crowe got up and dusted himself off. Knowing that White would be with Hatter assured him she'd be ok. Shifting into Crowe form he took off towards the red queen's castle. Might as well entertain himself.

When he reached the woods just before the castle her heard the familiar laughter of the twins. Landing gently in a nearby tree he folded his wings and shifted back into his human form, but his wings stayed as well. Climbing down to the lower branches of the tree he was in he sat down and watched as one of the twins ran towards the tree. Dropping down he waved to her.

[CuteLilRedhead]

Hatter grinned as she heard the chatter of her fellow Wonderlandians. Standing she walked to through the forest to see her old friends. "Well, well. So you all are the cause of disturbing tea party. I thought you all would know your place now that Alice is gone. Sure to never return, of course." Hatter gave an evil grin and stared at the others.

In the new Wonderland Hatter was... more open to the dark side. She knew ways to kill a man and she enjoyed it. Losing your mind can do that to a person. "Well? What do you have to say for yourselves?"

[AliceMalice15]

"Hattie," White called cheerily, "morning Hattie! Almost forgot about tea! Late as usual. Sorry. Morning everyone! Shall we be off to tea then?"

Smiling cheerfully White bounded up to the hatter and stopes just before her. White had always been good friends with Hatter and she was determined that nothing would change that. Not even the stupid red queen. Unfortunately that fact that She had been calling to Alice was a secret she had to keep. She and Crowe were the only ones aloud to know until she was already there. They were the only ones who would know and the only ones who could make it happen.

[CuteLilRedhead]

Hatter rolled her eyes as she walked back to the tea table. Things were changing whether others believed it or not. Hatter was enjoying the dark side almost as much as she liked tea. "What sort of tea would you like, White, dear?" She had all sorts of teas and she enjoyed sharing them still. That she was sure was never going to change.

[AliceMalice15]

"Uh how about some Earl Grey," White said, "that usually is pretty good on dreary days like this. I feel like somethings brewing. A storm of sorts I suppose...What do you think Hattie?"

White looked pensively at the dark gray sky over head. She may look quite young and act so much of the time, but she had times when she showed her true wisdom. She had been alive since almost the begining of Wonderland as most of them, but there was still much she didn't know either. That was where the caterpillar came in. He seemed to know everything, but even he didn't know about the creation of Wonderland and the mystical forces that flowed through the land. White sighed. Alice had better hurry. White feared that Wonderland itself was beinging to fall. If Alice wasn't there soon. Things might get ugly...

[Higurashi]

Murder looked out from behind his glasses as the pair of tricksters stopped suddenly. They thought he couldnt understand their language, but he had been around them enough to get the gist of it. They were planning to do something, but that was all he could make out. Then they kissed each other, and bolted. Murder sighed, wondering why it was always games with these two.

Raising his sword from his shoulder, he spun it once, morphing it into a shadow copy of himself. The shadows quickly gathered into the sword, clinging to it like a black gooey mass. They then formed into a body. Murder #2 landed on the ground, standing next to Murder #1. Both nodded to each other, and sped off after their own target. Murder #1 took off after Dee, while Murder #2 sprinted after Deb.

Murder #1 swung his sword from it's sheath, running at full speed. The eight copies in front of him through the trees were only a minor annoyance. If he could take out seven of them, they would form back into the real deal. Thankfully he would probably only need to catch them. If his assumption was correct, they would poof into laughing black smoke. If they didn't, he would simply kill the copies until he found the real one. He hoped it didn't come to that.

Murder #2, seeing what Deb was doing, decided to take the latter option, and slice through whatever he came upon. The illusion would dissapate, leaving a completely unharmed original object. The first six were faily easy enough, tackling them to the ground and slicing them thinly sufficed. Now only two Deb's were left.

Meanwhile, Murder #1 was in a similar situation, having dealt with six false Dee's. The final two were running close together, and he was gaining on the. Swining his sword over his head, he let it loose in the direction of the Dee's feet to trip them.

[Marilith]

The first time one of her copies was cut in twain, the real Deb blinked, as she felt a little change occur. So he was going to be nasty about this? The twins had only wanted to play a game of chasey, but if he was going to be rude and just cheat then fine, they would have to play a step harder as well. She could almost feel a connection to Dee as she decided it was time to get harsh, and she nodded to herself even as she could sense Murder come within sight range and in between one step and the other she vanished completely.
"Can you catch what you can't see?" she taunted with a giggle, her voice echoing from everywhere and giving no clue to her location, copying Dee without realising now as she split her body into ten, each of these also invisible.
"I hope so! This game is just getting fun!"

Dee on the other hand had decided on the opposite solution to Deb in that splitting her body was getting nowhere -the destroyed ones had returned to her instantaneously you see, so she was 80% whole again- and so when she felt a blade fly down towards her and her copies feet she intentionally let it trip her -she could have easily dodged- and chose a new tact.
The copy to her left vanished as soon as it was hit but Dee landed hard on the ground, and then split into over one hundred different copies, each one made from a single blade of grass. As one they all giggled then leaped in different directions, running and jumping all over the forest in a mass of Tweedle-Dees.
The real one however had leaped upwards and into the trees above, cloaking herself like her sister had, and intent on watching the fun.

She had recognised Crowe when she had seen him of course, it was hard to not recognise the human form of that one, but she had intentionally moved away as soon as she had done so since Murder had been after her. She didn't want to lead that one directly to the other young man, and it was a good excuse if confronted later by him as to why she had left.
She and her sister really didn't like crows you see.
What's more they didn't dislike Murder, it was just fun to mess with him and that was why they were doing this, splitting and running around. They would stop eventually when they met up or he caught them -like that latter would happen- but until then it was just fun to have some... well, fun!

[Princess C]

Alice walked through Wonderland just taking in everything around her. She felt like this place was very familiar, yet she couldn't quite put her little finger on it. Here, in this odd place that she found herself in, had odd plants and creatures just lurking around. Alice, staying quiet, heard some voices. She peeked around the bush and saw several people.

"Who are they...", she said in her mind, and kind of mumbled it to herself underneathe her breathe. She avoided the thought of her surroundings, and now focussed on the people she was seeing. They look familiar too!, she thought. She studied each one of them carefully. She made sure that her long curly blonde hair didn't pass the bushes edge so she wasn't caught.

(Sorry for the tiny post! Busy right now..)

[AliceMalice15]

Crowe turned his head sideways as the twin veered away from him. That almost never happened. Not in this form anyway. Climbing higher in to the trees he followed after her. Eventually he saw a man with an extremely large sword following them and taking out clones. Crowe's internal alarms started going off and he crashed out of the trees just behind Dee and hissed loudly spreading out his wings menacingly. Crowe's bright yellow eyes flashed dangerously as he crouched down prepared for any on coming attack. He would not attack the stranger unless he persisted. If he did persist and Crowe found his skill or muscle to be to much he'd grab Dee and get out of there. Then he'd come back for the other twin.

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White's ears twitched as soon as something entered the rabbit hole. Shooting up from her chair she began to sprint through the forest. When she got almost all the way to the hole she saw a familiar blue dress poking out from behind a bush.

"Well well well," she said placing her hands on her hips and staring directly at the bush, "you're quite late you know. We've got a lot to do and not much time to do it. People have given up on you and Wonderland's gone to the dogs. Hurry up now. No time to lose!"

[Higurashi]

Murder #2, had been throughly annoyed by now. He was tired of games. Looking around himself, he heard the rustlings of ten new Deb's, but he could not see them. Taking off his black glasses, his eyelids closed. One hand still held his sword as he stood completely still, listening to to forest sounds. Suddenly, he jumped into action, flying from the position of one invisible Deb to the other, relying on his ears to position himself. As he reached each Deb, he grabbed them each by the wrist and flung them into each other, making them recombine. When he reached the final Deb, he decided to play a trick of his own. Grabbing her around the middle, he kissed her on the lips.

Meanwhile, some distance away, Murder #1 was confronted by Crowe. Gripping his sword tightly, he stared down the creature. Twirling the sword once, he decided to say, "Begone hatchling. This one is of special intrest to me at the moment. You are not to enterfere. Do not flee, as this one has been called by the Red Queen, and myself." As he said 'myself' his eyes flashed dangerously.

[AliceMalice15]

Crowe hissed again in warning and an anticipating shiver ran through him rustling his wings ominously. The stranger hadn't attacked yet, but he knew he probably would. This wasn't going to be easy, but he couldn't let the stranger take Dee to the queen. He'd just found her again after so long. He wasn't going to back out now. If there was one thing you could count on Crowe for it was that he'd fight for you as much as he could and if he couldn't win the first time he'd never give up. Not if his friends life was at stake.

Crowe felt his anger building up and his body began to change. It would give him an advantage if he had the birds extra power, but he'd also lose restraint. The bird didn't care if the stranger attacked first. It just wanted blood.

[Marilith]

"So rude!" Deb cried out as she felt her copies recombine somehow and when one hit her and sunk into her body she knew maybe Murder was serious. Sighing heavily she readied one last surprise for her game but she didn't expect Murder to try and kiss her.
"EH!" she cried out as soon as his lips got close, "Not like this! You're not Deeeeeee~!"
And with that she exploded. No, exploded wasn't the right word, it was more like her body just burst into hundreds of pieces, each one turning into a flapping brown sparrow and scattering, moving into every conceivable direction, including upwards. However this was a different surprise, as only one of them was really Deb but the rest were really sparrows.

As for Dee, as soon as Murder had moved in to engage Crowe she had sighed in annoyance. Damn it she didn't particularly want to do this right now so she moved in front of Crowe, blocking the boy from Murder by her own body.
"Don't be rude Murder, she said seriously, her own eyes bright and shining with potential... something, "We're just playing a game there's no need to be nasty. Crowe is our friend and if you don't like that then you can run along and tell the Queen, who knows full well about that. If you don't want to play then just say so and we'll go get Deb. But don't threaten someone who is our friend.

[AliceMalice15]

"Get behind me," Crowe growled still trying to restrain the bird, "now!"

Crowe folded one wing just infront of Dee and felt feathers begin to cover his body. He was becoming too angry. The bird was forcing its way out. Growling he grabbed onto Dee's shoulder and prepared to bolt. He didn't want to kill the stranger, but if he attacked the bird would stop at nothing to kill him. Heck the stranger might end up killing him instead. He wouldn't put it past the man. Crowe pushed back against the bird. He had to be sure of the strangers intentions and of Dee's wishes. That and he still hadn't heard Deb. Had the stranger possibly killed the other twin? No Dee would have him dead in seconds if that was the case. He must have her captive then. He needed to know where she was.

[Higurashi]

As Deb exploded into a hundred sqwuaking birds, Murder #2 grimaced. He had just been joking. No need for her to go off in a flurry like that. Still, he was intruiged by her reaction. The taste of her lips was fresh in his mind, and it bothered him. Bringing his hand to his chest, he felt something faint, a small tremor. It shocked him, he had never felt something there before. Extended his arm to a tree, he plucked a couple of nuts from it, and crushing the nuts in his hand. He then scattered the nuts in front of him. The sparrows, being rather frightened and hungry, zoomed in to the food, and began pecking away. Meanwhile, Deb was left exposed. Murder #2 reached over and grabbed her gently as she flew by his head. He cradled her against his chest, brushing her head lightly.

Murder #1 sensed this from far away, as it gave him a slight head ache. What was his copy doing? Then he felt the tremor in his chest aswell. It hurt strangely enough. Trying to ignore it, he said, "Okay then. Enough games. I have no will to hurt you friend, and myself has already fetched your sister. She's with him. Now, come along. The Queen will be off with MY head if I don't get you two to her." He said this last part with total seriousness.

[Princess C]

"Who are you?", she asked, more like demanded. Back in her own regular home, no stranger just walks up to a random person and starts talking to them. "And didn't your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers?!", she stated looking the rabbit like person in the eyes. She looked around and saw many more of these strange creatures just roaming around! She'd never been anywhere where anyone in their right mind would do anything like the people here were doing, and it seemed like they were doing what they usually do too!

[AliceMalice15]

White burst into laughter at Alice's remarks. Wiping her eyes and patting Alice's shoulders White let her laughter dwindle away.

"That's funny Alice," she giggled, "don't talk to strangers ha! Besides if you're a stranger to me I'm one to you. Always contradicting yourself as always. Enough with the joking now. We have a lot to do like I said. We should head over to Hatter's place to fill you in on what's happened since you left. We don't have a lot of time so we need to move reall quick like, so hup to. Come on!"

White grabbed Alice's hand and pulled her along as she raced for Hatter's. They had so precious little time. Wonderland was dying and Alice had only just arrived. She hoped they would be in time.

[Princess C]

"What do you mean? How do you know my name?", she had just began questioning. She had always been one to question, ever since she was a child. She paused and thought about what this person had just said for a few seconds.

"And what do you mean by 'Since you left'? I've never even been here!", she proclaimed as she tore her hand away from this persons hand. She wasn't used to being touched by strangers either. She stopped and stood there. "I refuse to go anywhere with someone I do not even know.", she said tilting her head up to the sky and folding her arms across her chest.

[AliceMalice15]

"Hello earth to Alice," White said knocking gently on Alice's head, "you know me! White Rabbit? Ring a bell? Come on Alice! Please don't tell me you forgot EVERYTHING! Grrrrr! NO! This is not good. Alright look I'm White Rabbit, but call me White PLEASE! Now we aren't strangers. Ugh maybe the caterpillar can figure this out cause my brain hurts. Come on Hatter will know where that giant grub is. Ha ha he hates when I call him that! Alright no time to waste and I promise I'm not taking you anywhere where you'll be harmed, well unless it can't be helped. Wonderland isn't as safe as it used to be.....ok hurry up. We've got a lot to do."

Rabbit held her hand out and allowed Alice to choose. She desprately needed her to follow, but she knew she couldn't force her. The caterpillar would know what ro do. He always knew.

[Princess C]

"Who is this caterpillar...you speak of? And this Hatter?", she began questioning again. She would most likley follow if she knew more about the people that would be around her wherever this crazy rabbit was going to take her. She studied the rabbit while she was awaiting her answer. Even this rabbit seemed maddening familiar, but she still couldn't remember who exactly it was!

She looked around only to see the same familiar surroundings that she'd seen when she'd first entered Wonderland.

[AliceMalice15]

White groaned impatiently and grabbed Alice's hand pleadingly. Looming into Alice's eyes she took a deep breath.

"Please, Alice," she said softly, "I need you to come with me. I promise I'll explain everything as best I can, but I need you to hurry. We don't have much time. If the red queen finds put you are here she will have everyone on the look out for you. You're the only one who can save wonderland and make it a safe place again."

White looked pleadingly into Alice's eyes. If they didn't hurry Wonderland would be history. She had to help.

[Marilith]

"I said," Dee said in a low voice, pushing Crowe's wing out of the way -only slightly shuddering at touching his wing- "Don't. Be. Rude. You," she looked over her shoulder, eyes flat, "We'll see you soon I promise, but this is hardly the time or place. Deb should be here soon and she'll tell you the same thing-" -she conveniently forgot that she and Deb always agreed anyway- -so please, for now just leave."
Turning back to Murder she walked over to him and slapped him in the face once, hard, then walked off towards the castle, whistling a tune as she did that was both lilting and sorrowful. A moment later the very same tune echoed her from her left and, somehow, Dee was there.

Yes, just there.

From having been grabbed by Murder somehow -though she had gone up not over his head- she had simply appeared next to her sister, the sparrow that Murder now held was now a literal bird, a very frightened bird that would probably try to get the hell away and towards the food the man-thing had made.
"You ok?" Dee signed to her sister, "That wasn't a very fun game."
"I'm fine," she signed back with a quick kiss on her sister's cheek, "But was that Crowe back there? What was he doing here? He shouldn't do that, we told him how dangerous it is!"
"We'll emphasise it next time." Dee signed shortly and her sister gave her a kiss again.

"You coming?" Deb called out, "You don't want to be late for Mrs. Big Head!"

[CuteLilRedhead]

Hearing all the clutter, Caterpillar decided he had had enough. "Tell me." He interrupted all as he usually did. After all, they all owed him some respect since he was the all knowing of Wonderland. He knew all minus one or two things. "Why do you all insist on disturbing my slumber with your silly kid games?" He asked looking at the Murders first moving then to Crowe, White, and the twins. Hatter was simply drinking her tea so he didn't pay her any never mind. "I was having some pleasant dreams of riddles and brain teasers." His voice was aggravated. Wonderland wasn't the same and he missed the days where he could sleep peacefully without such rude awakenings.

[AliceMalice15]

"Oh Caterpillar," White gasped suprised by his sudden interuption, "sorry for waking you, but Alice is here! She's back! Except...well she doesn't remember anything...not a thing. Empty as the day she first came here."

White looked at Alice and frowned in confusion. How could she forget? Especially forgeting her! She chased her down the rabbit holes everytime! White Placed her hands on her hips and pouted. This wasn't fun at all.

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Crowe glared at Murder as Dee walked away. It was his way of warning the man not to harm or let harm come to the twins or it would be the last thing he'd do. Arching an eyebrow at the caterpillar he transformed into his crow form and lept up into a tree. Hopping up through the branches he poked his head out the top. Seeing that the sky was clear he took off for Hatter's not knowing that Alice had already arrived. Landing lightly in a chair next to Hatter's he shifted back into human form. Nodding to Hatter he grabbed a cup of tea. Flying made him thirsty.

[CuteLilRedhead]

"I know Alice is back." Caterpillar rolled his eyes. He hated being told what he already knew. "She's all grown up, see? She doesn't remember because she chose to forget! You really think she would want to remember a bunch of misfit like us?" He rolled his eyes again. He wanted to forget that he lived here with them too.

Hatter, though intrigued by Alice's presence, was sipping her tea. Alice had forgotten all the fun tea parties and worst of all she had left in the first place. Was Wonderland not good enough for her? Hatter left out a humph. Alice... What's so special about her anyway? White always goes up the rabbit hole so why isn't she idealized and worshiped like Alice. "Big deal that the girl is back. She left us, remember? We all wanted her to stay but she insisted she had to go. Maybe she should leave again!" Hatter yelled.

At that moment the White Queen walked through the jungle. "What ever is the problem?" She smiled, winking at Murder and blowing a kiss to Crowe in the tree. Her dress was short and Hatter couldn't help but get more furious. The White Queen used to be so pure and sweet now she was... whorish. Always wearing dresses that showed almost everything and flirting with all the men in Wonderland. Hatter growled, she was the reason Hatter became who she is today.

[Higurashi]

Murder was rather shocked when Dee had slapped him. He wasnt expecting it at all. The two Murder's met back together, with the second Murder remorphing back into the sword. They walked along sullenly behind the twins. When they finally reached the castle, Murder opened the gate and let the three of them in.