Wonderland

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"Damn it" Blake cursed her mind instantly going to Katarina. Great was this Blake saves everyone's butt day today? funny it wasn't marked on her calendar.

"Katarina is here I can smell her, I'll find her and Pippa will take you out of here" Blake informed the Queen. Pippa nodded. Blake picked the Queen up bridal style and went to the balcony. Pippa jumped onto the Queen's stomach and Blake through them both over the edge of the castle then went back in to find Katarina.

Pippa squeaked in join and it and the Queen fell, the little spirit finding more of a ride then something to be frightened about. But once Pippa noticed they were 15 feet from the ground the little forest spirit used it magic's to make tree roots grow from its small body. The roots wrapped around underneath Pippa and the Queen until the root's formed a slide. The roots seperated from Pippa and now left standing beside the castle was a large swirly slide made from tree roots and leaves. The Queen with still Pippa sitting on her stomach, gracefully slid down to the end of the slide, which ended beside the group of people outside the castle. Pippa squeaked in joy again.

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Blake rushed through the melting castle, following Katarina's scent. Once she reached the room Blake saw Lux and growled. What was she doing here? Without a word Blake wrapped an arm around the girl and partly covered her with Blake's cloak then Blake smashed down the door and jumped through the flame's. Blake got into a crouch, the smoke being to heavy up top to see clearly even with her eye's. Then she saw Katarina laying there, her own blade impaling her. Blake snarled darkly. She shot towards Katarina's, dragging Lux with her, and lifted the woman over her shoulder. Then with one swift jump Blake jumped, with Katarina and Lux, through the semi melted window and landed gracefully back on the ground beside Pippa and the Queen. She let go of Lux and then gently laid Katarina down on the ground. She removed the hood of her cloak, displaying off her angered expression, gleaming silver hair and adorable wolf ear's. She mumbled a string of curse word's as she quickly removed the blade and plugged her canine teeth beside the wound. Shadewolf saliva had the ability to heal any wound as long as the person's heart was still beating so that the saliva could course through the body. Sure she could have licked the wound but biting is faster and well....she just really didn't feel comfortable licking Katarina. Blake could still hear Katarina's heart beat strongly. Blake watched as the wound started to stitch itself up, the one on her stomach and the one on her head, but then Blake caught the scent of another's blood and her head snapped to Adrian's direction. Another growl slipped past her and she glared down at Katarina's unconscious body before moving over to Adrian, who was still conscious unlike his sister. Without a word she gently pushed him down so that he was lying down then removed his hand's from the identical wound. She then bite down beside his wound as well. She watched as his wound also healed up then stood and moved out of his way. She like everyone else knew Adrian would be steam rolling over to his sister in just a moment. Blake walked over to the Queen.

"Are you injured?" she asked polity.

Jaxson sighed as Lux rushed in and out of the pub. He eyed the blonde human with disinterest, seeing as she looked as through she was mentally freaking out. He took a swift sip of his drink then patted the small girl on the head.

"You should calm down there's really nothing to freak about, if I know Blake she'll save everyone's ass like she always does, like who do you think saved your's from falling out of that tree?" Jaxson questioned. With his magic and his hand on the girl's head Jaxson retraced her memories of just being in Wonderland. There's wasn't alot and the last memory was of her fainting and falling.

"I think you will like her when you meet her, she's a bit of a hard ass and doesn't talk alot but she's got a good heart and not many people here in Wonderland realize it" Jaxson said sadly. He knew Blake cared about the people of Wonderland and he also knew she protects the villages closes to the Dark Forest from the other Grimm's, killing them before they could even step out of the darkness.

"Well we should go see if everyone's okay don'tacha think?" Jaxson questioned as he lifted the small girl from her chair and placed her on his back.

"Hang on tight" he said as he wrapped her arm's around his neck then they whizzed off, Jax's wind making him glide over the land at a high speed. It didn't take long to get there but by the time they did Blake had done her thing and was now standing beside the Queen. He walked up to her and placed the blonde human beside her.

"Thanks for leaving me to babysitting duty but I'm done for the day so pay up" Jax grinned widely but his grin faded when he saw Kat.

"Shit what happened?" he asked, his voice laced with worry. Blake told him what happened and that she healed her but didn't know how long she would be out for since she hit her head. Jax nodded as a response and moved over to be by Katarina.

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"You should calm down there's really nothing to freak about, if I know Blake she'll save everyone's ass like she always does, like who do you think saved yours from falling out of that tree?" Aria looked up at the man as he pat her head. "I think you will like her when you meet her, she's a bit of a hard ass and doesn't talk a lot but she's got a good heart and not many people here in Wonderland realize it." Aria smiled, feeling a little more at ease.

Wait ... did he say Wonderland? Aria was about to speak up, but the man made a suggestion.

"Well we should go see if everyone's okay don'tacha think?" Aria nodded, complying as she was placed on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck lightly. "Hang on tight."

It didn't take long to arrive to the ginormous castle, and a scene that looked straight from a movie at that. Aria was set down as the man complained about having to babysit. Aria would have testified, said she 17 and fully capable of taking care of herself, but she was taken captive by the sight of the flames. It wasn't normal fire, that was made clear. Was she really dreaming? Everything was starting to feel more and more real. Once again, Aria's train of thought derailed and she quickly walked up to the one the man had called Blake. She was simply gorgeous, along with every other female in her presence.

"Blake?" She addressed the woman before smiling and hugging her. "Thank you so much for catching me! I'm sure that if you hadn't I would have been horribly hurt." Aria backed up and continued smiling. "I don't think I can thank you enough. I know this might offer might not be necessary, but if there is anything I could do to pay you back, just ask."

Adrian's heart ached, as if there was a hole in his chest, he held onto his heart with his free hand, his other hand was pushing against his stomach so that maybe the blood would not pour out of his body any faster then it already was with his hand on it already. He had saw everything that his sister was experiencing until she went unconscious. This usually happened when she was hurt, every time she even got the smallest of cuts it would suddenly appear on him as well. He took a deep breath as the queen came down the root ladder, he watched her carefully since Katarina was not outside yet.

The queen appeared to be fine, no cuts or bruises, yet she held onto her heart as if it was not there. She looked tired as if she were about to past out. Her eyes met Adrian's for a single second before the fire roared and three figures escaped from the castle. They were the last of the survivors, he could not recognize them until they came a bit closer. “Kat..” He whispered once he saw her. She looked horrible, and of course it was the spot that her shirt did not come down past that she was injured in. Of course that couldn't be really why it had happened however he liked to believe it was because he thought she wasn't very modest about the way that she dressed. He also noticed that Lux was there, and the person that had saved both Lux and Kat was Blake. He made a mental note just then to thank her some how for it later.

Adrian watched as Blake tried to heal Katarina, of course she wouldn't bleed to death now, but however being attacked with the magic blade would be something that nobody but Katarina could heal, with a lot of time. Next Blake made her way to him and healed him, he didn't say anything to her but a small “Thank you” with that, he crawled over to her and watched as her stomach lit up with a red light and when it disappeared she had a new tattoo, then a few seconds later his stomach did the same thing, it always burned when a new tattoo was made. He had never told anyone, not that they cared too much to ask but this was their curse. Anytime they were injured really bad they got a tattoo. If the two stood next to each other with no clothing on their upper bodies anyone would be able to see a map starting to form. Adrian sighed and dropped her hand that he was holding. This wasn't good, at all.

Jaxon finally showed up, after Blake had answered his question on what had happened to her, Adrian frowned before adding onto her answer. “Katarina won't wake up for at least 3 hours. Since she was attacked with her own blade she will be very ill as well. Also, the curse I share with her won't allow her to be active for at least three days at max. Yes, Blake has healed her, but she can't heal her from a magic tattoo, and that's what she just got. I got one as well but I am not the one that had the wound first so I am alright to move around. She is not.” Adrian tried to explain but felt as if he did not do such a good job.

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She stood quietly as everything played out, when Blake asked her if she was alright she nodded, not taking her eyes away from her assassin. The Red Queen had to be stopped, or she needed to get her followers away from the Red Queen. She had to find or build a new castle soon, and keep everyone that gave her their loyalty with her. Just to be sure that the Red Queen could not get a hold of them.

Caitlyn sighed when Adrian explained to the others of the curse, he did a poor job but it would be hard for anyone but himself and Katarina to understand. If you didn't have it, it was hard to understand. “I apologize for this happening. I know who did it however... The Red Queen sent soulless puppets to do her dirty work. She knew that my only body guard was a Hatter, therefore she used black magic on the fire that her puppets used on my home.” She looked up at her once beautiful castle, the entire thing was not made out of real ice, it appeared to be but she had others that lived in the castle and she did not want them to freeze so it was a fake ice.

Caitlyn looked back at the small group with her, meeting everyone's eyes. “I cannot allow this to happen again. When I am well enough to use my magic I will help build a new castle. Then I will need any person who has given me their loyalty to live with me in the castle. I cannot have the Red Queen going after one of my loyal persons.”

Caitlyn was about to turn to head for the closest village at the edge of the snowy mountains, however she noticed a small girl that did not look like she belonged here. “Who is this?” She asked pointing to the blonde girl. If she was an outsider someone needed to keep a close eye on her so that she was able to return home one day. It would most likely be herself. She looked back towards Katarina and Adrian. “Adrian get away from her, when she wakes up she will not want to be near you. I have a job for you and Lux.” She told the two before turning back to the new girl. Then she looked upon her little group and did not see her favorite. “Where is Willo?” She asked with a small frown.

TRACY FORD

Tracy looked back at Willo. She was surprised a bit by that question. That creature really behaved just like a little child. Girl sighed and answered: "I guess we can be friends, at least for the time I'm stuck in this strange place." She smiled to the light cloud. "But I'm from a place far away from here and at one moment, when I get a chance, I'll try to return to my place, to my home. And you will not be able to follow me" she explained. Seeing Willo's lights were changing again, like they did before, when the creature was mourning the spider, Tracy felt sorry for her words. "But I'm sure it will take a lot of time for me to leave this place" She said, though she was rather afraid of that "And I'm sure we will meet many times and have a lot of time to do the things together"

Tracy was looking at her new "friend"... well, the only friend she had here and noticed something that worried her. "Are... are you made of... fire?" She asked watching the burned grass where parts of his body or energy dropped. "I think we need to be careful with that" she showed Willo the traces he was leaving behind.

"I see you can control it" Girl appraised her new friend, not wanting to upset Willo more. It seemed that when the creature was calm, it didn't drop anything" But when you're upset, like right now you drop parts of your... energy. In those moments better fly over dry path and avoid flying above trees to avoid burning... you know, injuring them." She smiled again towards Willo, showing she believed in her new friend strength and abilities.

Suddenly something came into her mind. Why so late? "Hey, you can fly, right? Can you fly higher, like climb above trees and see if we are going deeper into the forest or are we on the right way out? Let's play you're scout in our team and you tell me where is something else, beside trees, like some buildings?"

Tracy was waiting for Willo's answer or actions. It might be a great fun for him. And a great help for her, for both of them. For their team. She smiled to the last word...

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Blake nodded back at the Queen and was just about to leave when she heard a light voice say her name. Blake turned around just in time to steady herself when she was hugged. Looking down it was the blonde strange that had her arms wrapped around Blake's torso. A light blush came to Blake's cheeks as the girl released her and thanked her for saving her.

"Don't worry about it you don't owe me anything" Blake answered as she pulled her hood back off her head, covering her ear's. She then gave the girl a smile and left the small group, running back into the forest. To many people all at one time.

Blake sighed in relief as she entered the wood's, the shrouding darkness bring her comfort. Though as she walked further in unease started to chill her skin. Something seemed off. It was to quiet. Then she heard the snap of a twig and shot around. Nothing. No scent. Nothing around her. Just that one noise.

She was just about to ignore it when something hard hit her across the head and Blake went flying into a tree, the loud crack of the wood breaking beneath her echoed through the silent forest. Blake suppressed her groan of pain bubbling at her throat and looked around for her attacker.

Nothing.

She was about to get up when she felt something clamp around her ankle and she was flung into another tree. This time a small scream of pain echoed with the loud crack as a piece of splintered wood impaled itself into her leg. Easily fixable. Wounds never troubled Blake because of her ability to heal but that didn't stop it from hurting any less. She whimpered as she tried to stand but then she left something clamp around her neck, a loud click vibrated in her ear's. Blake looked down at her neck and saw a collar. She's been collar! and not just any collar. This collar was especially made for Wolves. Its encahnted so they can't break them and if she tried to shift the spikes on the inside would impaled her and it would be instant death. A silver chain was connected to the collar but where the chain ended there was nothing. What!

"You have to love magic hey little ShadeWolf?" a gruff voice asked from in front of her. Then out of no where a huge man appeared. Shit he used invisibility. That's why she couldn't see or smell him. Dammit!

"The Red Queen wishes to see you" he said before hitting Blake on the head again this time making her past out. Her last thought were that hopefully someone would be able to see Pippa, whom she had left with the Queen just for protection, and keep Pippa safe and happy.

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"Time to wake up my little Wolf!" Blake heard a shrill voice wake her from the darkness of unconiousness and slowly opened her eyes. She was in a grand room of red and black. The only thing not of those color's was the huge gold throne right in the center where the Red Queen sat proudly, looking down at Blake as though she was some prized catch. Blake growled at the woman.

"Stand" the Red Queen demanded and Blake would have ignored the request if not for the horrible jot of pain that came from her collar the moment she didn't listen. No!

"Yes my dear Wolf, that collar is enchanted, every time you don't listen if will send a current of pain, for now the pain is minimal but the more you don't listen to me the worse it will get until it kills you" the Red Queen stated proudly, watching with a smug look as Blake stood.

"You know it took me a while but I knew, I knew that fire would draw you out, so then I could finally grab you and make you my pet and now I, the Red Queen, have one of the strongest creature's in Wonderland at my beck and call, oh what a wonderful world this is" the Red Queen chuckled.

"Now my darling I have a job for you, I need you to kill the Ice Queen"

Willo the Wisp

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"I guess we can be friends, at least for the time I'm stuck in this strange place."

"Yay! New friend!" Willo cheered, swirling around it's new friend. At the end of it's little parade around the human it popped up and let out a small burst of confetti like sparkles, each spark a different color of the rainbow and all of them neither hot nor cold.

"But I'm from a place far away from here and at one moment, when I get a chance, I'll try to return to my place, to my home. And you will not be able to follow me"

"Aw. Why not?" It asked, confused as to why she believed it couldn't follow her. Does human friend live under water?
That would make sense if she went under water. It assumed her meaning until she could answer otherwise.

"But I'm sure it will take a lot of time for me to leave this place and I'm sure we will meet many times and have a lot of time to do the things together" Willo went back from confused to cheery and happy. It let it's back end drift out into a fiery tail, a blazing rainbow colored trail following the body of the wisp. It harmlessly weaved between branches and wound around trees, the lines of psychedelic burning colors complimenting the eccentric flora that surrounded them. Tree's with leaves and flowers of every color, branches and trunks of unusual shapes and sizes, Fungi which adhered to no real strict laws of physics. Some mushrooms had eyes that watched as Tracy and the wisp passed them by.


"Are... are you made of... fire?" Tracy asked it as it was in the middle of dancing through the forest. Looking to her with it's happy little smile it bobbed up and down to indicate a yes. "Yup! I'm a wisp! All wisps are made of fire!" It answered her rather simple question easily.

"I think we need to be careful with that. I see you can control it. But when you're upset, like right now you drop parts of your... energy. In those moments better fly over dry path and avoid flying above trees to avoid burning... you know, injuring them."

When she mentioned that it had been dropping parts it looked at her quizzically. "What parts? I don't think I dropped anything..." It looked around, trying to see what she meant by that. It knew the flame trails it was making were safe, as were the guiding torches. It spotted a certain blue fire burning back over at the hill with the tree. It was the hot kind of fire. "Oooooh! That fire! Whoopsies!" It realized it's mistake. "Be right back!" It assured her before gliding back over to the source of the hot fire.

As it drew close it could see that the flames didn't quite do too much damage to the area yet. The tree was fine but it was starting to spread through some of the grass towards the tree line by the foot of the hill. It was a simple enough problem for Willo to fix. The flames that were once raging and burning everything in their path lifted from the ground up into the air. Quite quickly the fire was reabsorbed back into Willo, simply disappearing into the blue ball of light.


When Willo returned to Tracy it was now a bit bigger and a bit brighter than it was before. The fire that it created contributed returned little but the flames that were produced as consequence added some girth to it's spherical frame. "There we go! No more burny fires!" It boasted proudly, happy to have righted it's wrong.

"Hey, you can fly, right? Can you fly higher, like climb above trees and see if we are going deeper into the forest or are we on the right way out? Let's play you're scout in our team and you tell me where is something else, beside trees, like some buildings?"

"Okay!" It didn't know what a scout was but she wanted to do fun things so her request didn't seem even the slightest bit questionable. With a whoosh it soared straight up at a terrific speed. From above the forest it's blue light could be seen all across the forest nearby like a signal flare. It looked down then looked around and saw the general layout of the land from a bird's eye view.

Not a moment too long and down the wisp came, now hovering at shoulder height with it's new friend. "I saw a building and then I saw another building further away that was on fire and had humans around it. To get to them we gotta go back the way we came and then a little further. Wanna go? Which do we go to? What do you wanna do? You're fun to do stuff with." It summarized what it saw about as accurately as it could. Though the people around the burning place were technically denizens of Wonderland they all looked an awful lot like it's new friend which was a human so by that connection so were they.

Tracy smiled as she watched Willo's quick, almost chaotic movements. She was watching with her mouth open how the fallen fire was absorbed by Willo. She was glad the wisp could undo the damages it had done.

When it returned from above the trees, they got really useful data. It was a bit disheartening they were waling the wrong way, but at least they could change into the right direction.

"I think we need to go to that burning building, where other people gathered." Tracy said wondering if Willo had the abilities to help with that fire as well. "Let's go, I'd like to meet those people you've just seen. Which way to the burning building?".

When the wisp had shown her direction, she started marching quickly. She felt rather guilty, but she was counting on being relieved from "babysitting" the wisp when they would be among others. Maybe there is someone who likes to play more? She felt really guilty with that thoughts and was marching quickly not showing anything to Willo. The wisp reminded her of her own little brother - was a bit annoying, like every little kid, but she had to admit the wisp had a pure, honest heart made of golden flames.

"Have you met other people here? Do you know anyone from the ones who were by that building on fire?" Tracy asked. She was marching quickly, the way she liked. She really enjoyed the fact that she knew the destination now and sh was sure they will get to the edge of the forest soon. Girl had already known the wisp was quick, much quicker a human could be and she was trying to be as fast as she could not wanting it to be bored with he march.

"Hey, Willo, can you do the scouting job again? Please check if we are closer to the building on fire." Girl asked the wisp. If it enjoyed flying fast and high, it was probably treating that as a sort of play. If it's way of thinking was the similar to her brother's, she had known for a long time that a biggest "threat" wisp was facing was a boredom...

When Willo returned there were some good news. They were really close. "Do you think you could help them with that fire, like you did it a moment ago with that fire on trees?"

She was listening to wisp's answers when they reached the edge of the forest. She looked around. The building on fire resembled some sort of palace, It was big and a beautiful, despite the damages.

Girl looked at the people standing there. Something changed inside her. She was no longer feeling like a brave adventurer. There was suddenly so many people around her, not just Willo... and they were not humans, they were locals, local creatures... They did look partially human, one girl was even looking like she was from a Tracy's world...

"Hi, I'm Tracy and that's Willo" She said bashfully, putting her hands to the front pockets of her jeans and watching the others. The wisp had flown towards the group...

Caitlyn lit up with excitement as she saw Willo coming towards the small group. It was strange for a woman of her age to be so fond of such a creature from Wonderland. It was natural that she loved everyone, but she loved Willo a bit more then the others. She wrapped her hands around Willo and smiled. “Where have you been?” She asked, forgetting about her burning castle for a moment, and the fact that the Red Queen was leaning into black magic to get herself killed.

She realized how much passion she was showing Willo and rubbed her cheek against Willo before looking at the others, she noticed Katarina was still on the snowy grounds of the snowy mountain and that everyone was sort of standing there with nothing to do. “Jaxon, I feel as if you and Katarina share a special bond, would you please take her somewhere safe where she can rest and stay with her? I will send someone to get the two of you when you both are needed.” She smiled polity at him before turning to the stranger that came along with Willo. “Hello dear, I am the Ice Queen. You can call me Caitlyn if you prefer to not be formal.” She bowed to the girl, with Willo still in her palms. “I see you are also an outsider. For your own protection I feel you should stay with me. This young girl here is also new. You both have come to Wonderland in a very bad time.” She gestured to the small blonde girl.

Next she turned to Adrian and Lux. “I need to create a new body guard from my own blood, possibly two or three. I need you both to gather some supplies for me. I will need two dozen pink ice flowers, you can find it at the edge of the cliffs here. Six dragon fangs, and twelve golden eyes. I know it's a tricky combination, however I wouldn't ask you if I knew you could not manage to get your hands on it.”

She looked at Tom next. “I will need your help on figuring out who still has their loyalty to me. I will give you a magic ability to be able to see into a person's soul and figure that out for yourself. However you will need to figure out what the soul of a person who wants to kill me looks like and someone who I can trust looks like. If magic was as simple as I make it look, we would all be dead by now.” She smiled, loving how blunt she made that sound.

Lastly she turned back to the wisp in her hands. “And you, my love.. Can you find Pippa? I would appreciate it if you both would stay somewhere safe from the Red queen.”

Tracy's eyes turned big as saucers when the woman dressed in a sparkling dress was playing with the wisp. Her mouth went open as the woman introduced herself. As she'd never met a real queen before. Girl was not fully knowing what she was supposed to do after the queen's words, but she remembered herself a news she had heard just after princess' Kate Wedding that women were required to curtsy in front of the queen. Supposing Wonder-land had the same customs as Eng-land, Tracy moved her hands to the sides and then bent her knees for a second, attempting to curtsy. "I'm honored, your highness". girl said just after the queen gave her orders to the others.

A merry chuckles given by almost everyone standing there made girl's cheeks blushing. She was probably making it wrong... "I...I'm sorry, but I guess I need some practice" Tracy explained and smiled. "...and if somebody could help me, I'd take as many curtsying lessons as needed". People stopped laughing. That gave her enough time to think of her next step. "Excuse me" She said to the queen, mocking a curtsy again and walked to the girl who looked most "normal" among the others.

"I guess you are from >Kansas< as well." She said to the girl, smiling and blinking her eye. "I'm sorry, I know it's from >Wizard of Oz< but I just couldn't stop myself from saying that." Tracy was still smiling as she stood herself by the girl, but lowered her voice. "It's creepy, but I think this really is a Wonderland. Everything looks just like the movie, I even saw a >drink me< bottle... I'm glad I managed without drinking it." She was talking, watching as one of the people turned into a rabbit and run... Tracy could not believe her eyes, again in that strange place... 'Oh, there she is...' came through her mind.