A gray cat with black strips on its back, and a magenta red stomach could be seen running through the, ruined Underland "Damn it, the blood red queen has messed up the world of Underland, and that blasted rabbit is no where to be found" The cat said to herself looking around and trying to dodge the bodies that had been executed the night night before "She is killing many of the innocent people around here" The cat know as, Luna said. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty" A familiar voice said, causing the cat to run "Damn and now she's following me" The cat ran faster until she came to the a dark cave where she would rest.
Duchess walked around in search of the cat that worked for the White queen, even though she hated anyone on the White queen's side she enjoyed playing with a Cheshire cat "Here kitty, kitty, kitty" She said holding up a mouse that was thrashing around "I have a nice little mousy for the Puss-Puss" She finished as she walked passed the cave, unknowing the cat had ran in there, and fell asleep.

Bridgit followed quietly behind Duchess, she had nothing better to do so she decided to follow the woman. "Bloody Duchess always following that stupid cat around," she growled.

Brenna was sitting in her room inside of the castle, she sighed, obviously bored.

"What was the, DeeDee, remember if I wanted to I could tell the Queen, stuff that could make you wind up like these bodies on the ground" Duchess said with a small smirk before going back to the search for the cat "Anyway we have to bring the Stupid Cat to the queen alive because she might know information on Alice's whereabouts" Duchess explained looking around "I guess she ran off somewhere though....boo" She finished looking at the girl that followed her.

"Yes, so you tell me Duchess," DeeDee huffed, and then looked back at the woman. "So...what do we do now..I mean..we could always go swim or something, because you obviously lost the kitty cat," she giggled, looking around for said cat, but only seeing the spirits of the bodies that littered the ground.

Duchess looked at Deedee and pushed her blond hair out of her face "Yeah I guess we can go swimming, I don't see why now, and the pretty little kitty cat with come out when she gets hungry" Duchess said softly kicking a dead body that was on the ground and laughing when some blood gushed out "The queen's knights really did a number on these people, its so pretty" She said softly.
Luna change into her human form and sat in the dark cave, gagging on the smell of rotting flesh. She hated the smell and wished not to be there any longer, but she knew that Duchess wouldn't give up on searching until sundown "I'm so going to throw up if I don't get out of here" Luna said to herself, mentally cursing herself about the information that she held.

((GTG for the night bye))

"Let me do it for you," a maid said, pulling the brush away from the light-brown haired girl, "You never get the knots from the back, dear..." She complained, pulling the brush through the girl's hair, making her squeak randomly from pain. Once the maid finished brushing the girl's hair, she set the brush down, kissed her forehead and headed out. The girl glanced to her mirror and fiddled with random strands of her hair. She lightly sighed and began to put her lock necklace on. Her mother, Alice, used to tell her about her mother who never let her dress the way she wanted. This girl was glad that her mother let her express herself the way she wanted to. She straightened her dress and looked out the window. She didn't know why, but she felt the need to.
She saw someone in their courtyard, near the bushes. Her eyes widened, but she shook it off, thinking it was the children that lived nearby. She quickly turned away and sat on her soft bed and looked up at the clock. "The food should be ready by now," She muttered to herself and quietly tapped her boots against the floor, "It's a little late than usual..." Suddenly she heard the maid call out her name.
"Oh, Victoria! Food is ready."
Excitedly, she jumped up from her bed and quickly went down the stairs. She approached the maid who handed her plate over to her, and she took a seat at the table. She wasn't sure what the meal was, and that's how it usually was with her cooking. She smelt garlic and a strange vegetable in the soup. She politely took a sip when the maid smiled at her, but as she disappeared to the lounge, she took one more sip and refused to eat it. She took the plate holding the bowl of soup to the kitchen and messed around with the ingredients. She grabbed a lot of croutons, junk food, and some other better vegetables and added them in. She took a test-sip, and was pleased. She continued to eat and finished it before the maid checked on her. The maid cleaned her bowl out with water and Victoria thanked the maid before going outside to the backyard. She took a seat on the stairs and looked at the pretty forest further out.

Long beneath the ground of Underland, a creature stirred. He had been sleeping since the last war, gathering strength for the things to come. The Jabberwocky opened an eye lazily, but closed it again. Now was not the time, but soon.. Soon, he would be able to rise to the surface once more. It was hard to say what new adventures he'd meet up with there - perhaps another war. Would he be awakened by another dictator, or had one of the smaller creatures of Underland gotten a hold of the ritual this time? So many questions, so many unanswered riddles. But no, now was the time for sleep. The future would have to arrive at its own pace.

Ginevra could feel a spinning sensation in her head as she woke up slowly, not realizing she had fallen asleep. She got up slowly and yawned, smiling slightly as she realized she had also fallen asleep outside. Ginevra laughed slightly, before looking around, hearing the slight commotion of voices in the distance, though they were low voices, signaling that they were preety far away from where she was. She stretched and faced the direction of the voices. Figuring it came from a cave, not far from where she was. Ginevra smiled and began to trot off that way. Following the voices, incase it was somehow something entertaing going on.

Upon nearing the cave Ginevra smiled, hearing the voice of duchess, and one of the tweedles, she could never tell wich was wich, even though they were basicly opposite of eachother. She watched as they left and Ginevra smiled. Figuring that the duchess had only been in there to chase Luna. She walked a few paces into the cave, the smell of flesh washing over her with a disgusting smell. She kicked away a dead body in her path and found Luna, gagging from the smell.
"hey lulu, Duchess trying to find you again?"
She said with a small smirk and a laugh. A few very bad thoughts running through her head about what Duchess would do to Luna if duchess had caught Luna. She let out a loud laugh.

Luna looked up at Ginevra, and continued to fan the smell away with her tell "Yes, and I hate it most of all....the smell isn't helping me either, if that damn bird, the queen usually sends out was nearby, I would surely be noticed out, among the dead bodies" Luna stated calmly as she pushing her hair from her face "Did your see the bloody woman anywhere around?" Luna asked shifting back into her cat form and walking to the entrance of the dark, deep cave and poked her head out to see that Duchess and Deedee had left. Luna let out a sigh of relief and started to walk further out of the cave, She turned around a looked a Ginevra for a moment, and sat down on a dead head, her tail swaying from side to side slowly "Come, on since your here, you mind as well help me find, Jabby" Luna stated calmly laughing slightly, at calling one of the most feared creatures, something so childish.

"Where do you wanna go to swim Duchie?" DeeDee giggled, bouncing around the Duchess. "I think we should go back to the castle and swim in the enormous bathtubs," she smiled, twirling around in circles.

Ginevra grinned.
"finding things is my specialty!"
She yelled as she dashed out of the cave, then stopped, waiting for Luna.
"hurry up slow poke"
She stuck out her tongue, she was in a playful mood. Ginevra looked around, not spotting Duchess anywhere, or the bird.
"its safe dude"
She said with a smirk.

Duchess looked at the girl jumping around her, and rolled her eyes "I can sometimes see why your one of the tweedles" She said heading in the direction of the Red Queens castle, seeing as she wouldn't be able to catch her little kitty cat today "Yeah that bathtub is really big so we can swim in that, and maybe while we're at it, we can jump on the queen's huge bed too" Duchess said, she made she the last part sounded sarcastic, knowing that this one here would probably do that in a heart beat "Are you coming Deedee, because if you keep bouncing then no one is going to get anywhere" Duchess snickered to herself softly.

"Then lets go find him, at least with him around we have a chance......Wait but first, the bloody rabbit and I brought a few people down here you see, and he is bring down "Thee Alice" right now as we speak...or at least I think that is who he said...oh well, what I am saying is we can't let the roam around Underland, unattended, we neeeeeed their help" Luna said turning into vapor and flying around, Ginevra "I know I left a boy I brought with the White queen so we are good right now, with him" The cat finished reappearing in front of her friend.

"Victoria, honey?" The maid called out to her as she stepped out from the back door, smiling.
"Yes?" Victoria turned her head to her politely, awaiting for what she wanted to tell her.
"You should play outside, today. The weather is nice." She commented and Victoria looked at her in a strange way.
"Play?" She looked out to the grassy, beautiful landscape full of trees and flowers, "I'm 16 years old... What is there to do?" She put her fists against her cheeks and sighed as her elbows rested on her knees.
"Explore... Garden... There's plenty of things you could do, Victoria." The maid suggested calmly and then walked back inside the house. Victoria stared at the grass and eventually got up and stood in the middle of the field for a moment before sitting down in a gazebo. She heard the bushes rustling, but she convinced herself that it was the wind. She brushed her hair lightly with her fingers and enjoyed the breeze. After a while, she got up and started picking flowers to make flower necklaces for fun.

Ginevra nodded at Luna.
"alrighty then, should we go find Alice and the rabbit then or the jabberwaky first?"
Asked Ginevra, a small smile sparking across her face.
"I do wish to meet The Alice"
She said with a small smile. And a laugh. She turned and waited for Luna to leade the way to wherever they were going.
"i feel rather much more safe with you leading the way. After all, you are a dissapearing cat, and I merely make things exist"
Said Ginevra as she took a step back. Readjusted her hat and waited for Luna to lead the way.

Deedee stopped jumping on command,and calmly followed behind Duchess. "That would be so fun!"she cheered, skipping up beside of Duchess, and smiling brightly.

White stood in the ruins of one of Underlands destroyed villages. The red queen had destroyed everything again. He looked at his watch. The two hands were almost pointing at the red heart that served as 12, it was almost time. He could feel Underlands creatures moving about the land, picking sides, but one in particular bothered him. He knew it was still asleep but it would have to choose a side soon. White needed to find The Alice. It wouldn't be the first time. Underlands immortal messenger drew human girl after human girl down into the barren waste, each one possesed some Alice, sometimes he was lucky and the girls found their Alice but more often than not they died. Underland was crule, it had no time for those who couldn't, and those who could cannot help those who can't. It was one of the rules. To live was to know yourself. Your real name. You had to hang on to it through all the trials and that would help you accept the truths about yourself because if you cant accept yourself how can you expect Underland to accept you?
White tucked his pocket watch away. That cat was coming, it would want an Alice. Of all the creatures in Underland the Cat was the only one who was early every time. White shook his head letting his ears flop down beside his face. It was time. The watch chimed Heart and White vanished from the ruins to appear in a garden somewhere. A girl was picking flowers. White hopped forwards in his rabbit form, his nose twitching.
Alice...
He whispered the words into the wind. If this girl had any Alice in her she would respond.
Alice...

Luna looked at the girl and then thought for a moment about the question "The bloody rabbit, might still be fetching Alice but I don't want to break my streak of always being early so we will put Jabby on hold for awhile, he still might be sleeping, and one thing I do know is that he hates being woken up, and I really don't want to hear him complain yet" Luna said stretching her cat body before taking off to the direction of where the magic rabbit hole was.

Duchess, let out a low sigh and rolled her eyes "I was kidding, Deedee, mean I wasn't being serious, she will have our heads cut off if we did that" Duchess at this point just want to get back to the palace and lay back down, screw swimming, she was pissed about the fact of not catching her kitty cat still "Damn that cat, why can't she be good for once and come when I call her?" Duchess said to herself, forgetting that Deedee was right next to her.

Alice...

Victoria heard someone say her mother's name as a whisper. She immediately stopped what she was doing and looked around, "H-Hello...?" It couldn't have been the maid or anyone else. It sounded like a man's voice as well, and it was close. She then saw a rabbit close by and she shrieked because she was surprised. "Oh..." She walked a little closer with her hand extended out in front of her. "U-Uh..." She wanted to pet the rabbit, only because she has a weakness for animals, so she held out a flower and crouched down. She shook off the chills of the whisper she heard and smiled at the rabbit, trying to make peace with it.

“Now, now little one, there is no need to struggle so,” a young woman stated, her voice patient and relaxed. In her tight grasp, a poor, random rabbit squirmed, desperate to avoid the claws held lightly to its throat. The girl’s eyes, an off shade of lilac, sparked with both delight and frustration as she stared at the creature writhing in her grip. With every twitch of its body, every flail of it legs, her hand tightened around its frail form, the claws that had been merely threatening its flesh grazing ever so gently against its soft fur. Almost immediately after blood began to sprout on the rabbit’s white fur, did a pleasured gaze cover his eyes.

“There, there, my little friend, enjoy the feeling. In your last moments of life, you deserve nothing less than this unparalleled tranquility.” Her words came out warm and serene as she addressed the calming rodent, obviously believing what it was she was saying. While some would say adrenaline flavored a meal, Revons had found long ago that fear and anguish only served to bitter otherwise delectable meat. As such, she had learned the best way to season her prey, was with a light twinge of euphoria, also known as the poison secreted from her sharp talons~

When the rabbit seized to move at all, lulling into the sweet paradise she had given him, Revons brought slowly her clawed hand high above the rabbit. With the sudden plunging of her hand, she punctured the rabbit’s delicate throat. In shooting gushes, the blood sprayed from the small hole, practically spraying a mist of crimson across her smiling face. The rabbit’s still calmed heartbeat against her touch only expanded her grin, her sharpened teeth exposing themselves as she did so. In a flash, and with only the glimpse of her mouth opening ever being seen, Revons devoured the dying creature in one quick bite.

“Yummy~” she purred out, licking the blood on the corners of her mouth greedily. Out of habit, she moved to pull her sleeved arm to her face, wiping away at the scarlet splattered liberally against her cheeks. The dampness she felt reach it upon touch was quick to shun the smile she had worn, a deep frown replacing it. It seemed no matter how hard she tried, she always somehow managed to get dirty while eating. Such a shame, I’d even put on a bit of rouge on today too...

With an exasperated sigh, she pulled the sleeve away, figuring there was no use worrying about the matter anyways. It wasn’t like anyone really expected her to be clean anyways; it just wasn’t much in her nature. With that thought in mind, she began to trot towards the White Queen’s castle, being expected by the empowered woman herself for scones and tea~

((OOC: Sorry for the great wall of text...and a bit bloody description. Banders came out a bit darker than I intended >.>))

In mouse form, Glen scurried through a flew shrubs in Wonderland, watching other people as he made his way to get to the outside world. He was curious to see if the white rabbit had found the Alice or not. It would take him a while to get there, but he was extremely agile and it was easy for him to get around. He spied on two girls for a moment, to see if they were hostile. One girl seemed to be cheerful and possibly ditzy-- so he didn't find them a threat. He sneakily went by and headed in the direction towards the way out. Once out to the real world, he hid behind a rock and watched the rabbit. A girl was in front of him and Glen felt the presence of Alice in her soul -- Through his gut instinct, anyway. He quietly observed them, but he was very cautious about it.

"I'm sorry about your kitty cat," DeeDee frowned softly, she looked at the ground and kicked the dirt lightly. "I-I know how important catching her is to you," she continued, not knowing how else to calm the Duchess. She felt a need to make sure the woman was okay, as DeeDee hated it when anyone was anything but happy.

Teddy frowned softly, hugging her stuffed rabbitt to her chest. She was unsure why, but she had a terrible feeling about something or other..though she couldn't quite place it.

Inwardly White sighed. This girl was staring at him with the stupid expression of an animal lover who was trying to connect. He could feel her Alice though, it was very strong. White hopped away from the girl but very slowly, then looked back at her. If only he could do this in his human form.
Alice...
He tried again. It had obviously caught her attention. Maybe this girl would follow him. He waited a second then hopped a bit furthur and looked back again. If she didn't pick up the fact that he wanted her to follow him soon he may be forced to bite her.
I am so very late
White thought to himself. He hated being late. The only one with perfect timing was being made late by a human.
Alice...

He dreamt.

He was running, possibly chasing something. There was a forest in the corner of his eye, but he paid no attention to it. The prey was light on her little feet, but it couldn't possibly escape him. Not now. He was superior.

Through the forest he chased her, almost catching her, but always failing. His claws grazed her hair but never managed to do any damage, even as he lunged forward to bite -- only to bite air as his victim had already moved from the spot.

He growled, loud enough for the earth that was really around him to shake, in frustration as he chased his dream. She would not escape him. Nobody would. He took to his wings, flying above the trees, seeing her run down there. So fragile, so easy to bring down..

He dove, and he was near. Soon, he would be able to taste her blood. All he needed was the aid of a few seconds.

The victim turned around to face him, her face obscured and hard to recognize. He did, however, recognize the sword in her hand. No, his inner voice screamed, it can't be!

Above him, the earth quaked as the Jabberwocky suffered through his nightmare.

Leo smoked his pipe then exhaled smoke turning it into shapes. Some shapes were hearts, circles, or even just his nicknames. He blinked as he felt the ground shake. Leo was glad he was sitting on a rock or he would have stumble if he was standing up. After a few seconds he disappeared into smoke then into thin air. When he appeared again he was sitting a few feet away from the Jabberwocky. He thought about waking him up, but thought better of it as he leaned against the wall. Leo smoked his pipe for a while more before he looked the Jabberwocky over. It seemed like he was having a nightmare. Leo made the smoke into rings of different shapes as thoughts filled his mind. He was a guest at the White Queen’s tea party, but he wasn't in a rush to get there as he didn’t want to be early.

Winnifred paced down the halls of her kingdom in thought, a hand held to her chin lightly. She swore she's told everyone to get there at twelve, or maybe it was one. Well, whatever time she had said, she was sure...or at least relatively sure, that it had been earlier than the time it currently was that they were supposed to be at the castle. It was at times like this that she couldn't help wanting an assistant, the sheer number of events, plans, and size of her rule always making things near impossible to remember.

But there wasn't really much she could do at the moment either, besides trying to entertain the guest Luna had decided to drop off in her kingdom. Turning with a sigh back to the boy she had been dragging around, the aforementioned guest, she tried to explain the situation, "I do apologize if I got your hopes up for our little tea gathering, it's a bit difficult for me to keep things organized at times and it seems they'll most likely be coming later...Is there anything you'd like to do until the guests arrive? Chess perhaps?"