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Disclaimer: This is a work fiction, based on the Alice in Wonderland book series.

Chapter List
- 1-Alice in new wonderland
- 2-chapter 2
- 3-ch 3
- 4-ch4
- 5-ch5
- 6-ch6
- 7-chapter 7
- 8-chapter 8
- 9-chapter 9
- 10-chapter 10
- 11-chapter 11
- 12-ch12
- 13-chapter 13
- 14-chapter 14
- 15-chapter 15
- 16-ch 16
- 17-ch17
- 18-ch 18
- 19-ch 19
- 20-chapter 20
- 21-chapter 21
- 7
- 8
- 9
Englishwitch
Alice in new wonderland
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Alice in wonderland. It is a novel by Lewis Carroll.

Chapter 8

Alice smiled as she felt the warmth of the sun on her face. The day was bright and she had to close her eyes. She’d been inside a long time and seeing only by candlelight.

The air was sweet a slight breeze made the day perfect to be outside. Alice had been brought out into a little courtyard garden with small brightly coloured flowers and a tall tree with bright pink blossoms. Petals drifted down onto her.

Alice had been dressed in a large white robe and placed onto what looked like an armchair, complete with material coverings, three wheels and handles on the back. Her caretaker, a sphinx named Mina had wheeled her outside into a courtyard garden.

A gravel path wound its way across and to the sides were different flowers in every colour in the rainbow and a few Alice thought might not. A tall tree with bright pink blossoms showered the whole garden in a light covering of petals from its flowers.

Alice sat in her wheeled chair and smiled. Mina sat by her side holding Alice’s hand brushing her cheek against it.
“It’s beautiful Mina.”
“Just like you are Alice my precious. I have wanted to show it to you for such a long time.”

Mina had found Alice inured and dying several weeks ago in the forest. She had rescued and healed Alice and in doing so, Mina had fallen in love with her. Alice knew it was quite likely that Mina was simply suffering from the same disease that was spreading all across wonderland and it was only a matter of time until she tried to take the love she was desiring from Alice by force. As gentle as Mina was around her, Alice had already gained experience of how dangerous a woman scorned could be. She didn’t want to say anything because Mina’s claws looked very deadly.
“Mina I am so very grateful that you have saved me, and spent all of this time nursing me back to health.”
“It was the least I could do for you.” Mina said lovingly.
“Please listen to me. I am trying to explain that I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You could never hurt me my love.”

Alice turned away and rubbed a couple of tears from her eyes. Mina was so infatuated with her that Alice found it upsetting to even think about telling her that she would have to leave sometime soon. With her strength returned Alice would have to continue her quest to find the maid of hearts and restore the throne of wonderland.

Mina saw the tears and became greatly concerned, she couldn’t stand the thought of her great love upset.
“Alice my cherished, what’s wrong? Please tell me.” She rose herself up onto all fours and held tightly onto Alice’s hand. Alice looked down at the floor, unable to look at Mina out of both sadness and fear. Fear because she didn’t know how the sphinx would react. But she knew silence wouldn’t lighten the intensity of Mina’s attention.
“I’m upset because I have to leave you soon.” Alice said, trying to lean away from Mina and fearfully expecting Mina to use her claws. Mina instead took a step back and looked at Alice like she’d just slapped her.
“Why? Why do you have to leave me? I can take care of you here, I will love you eternally, why would you want to go anywhere?”

Alice was expecting a strike, but the blow didn’t come. Mina instead looked on the verge of tears. Alice reached out and put a hand on one of Mina’s wings.
“I don’t want to leave Mina. You’ve been so kind to me, nursing me back to health all this time. If I could stay I would, but it’s not my choice to make.”

Mina took Alice’s hand and kissed her palm.
“Why? Why is it not you choice?”

Alice hesitated, the only other person that she had explained her mission to was Kappu, a hunter who lived on the great grass plains several days travel west. It seemed like such a long time ago that she had been travelling with his tribe toward the borders of the eastern woods. He had tried to come with her and she had told him to stay, she had to travel alone. So much had happened since then and very little of it had been good.
“I was given a quest, to travel across wonderland and deep into the eastern woods to find the maid of hearts. I have to find her and take her to the queens palace. I have to overthrow the queen of spades and put the maid of hearts back on the throne.”

Mina fell silent and put a hand to her mouth, she was surprised and shocked at what she was hearing. Alice looked at her curiously.
“What is it?” she asked, leaning forward toward Mina again, but this time Mina took a step back, fear was in her eyes.
“Stories are spreading. Whispers of fear, they tell of a nameless horror from another world. A great warrior, wild and impossible to kill. They say it comes to destroy wonderland and its queen.” She took another step back, tears rose up in her eyes.
“They say the queen offers a great reward for anyone who brings her the head of the warrior.” She dropped to the floor at the side of the wheelchair. “Alice please tell me that you are not the destroyer of wonderland that they are all speaking of. Please.”

Alice became silent. She should have guessed that people would be looking for her. The queen of spades probably wouldn’t want to be removed from power. Still it was taking her by surprise to hear the words said aloud. Alice put a hand onto the side of Mina’s face.
“Mina, you have to believe me, I don’t want to hurt anyone. But this is a task I have been given for the benefit of Wonderlands people and it’s future.”

The look on her face told Alice that Mina didn’t believe her. Mina looked to the floor for a couple of seconds before speaking again.
“Who told you to do this?”
“The story keeper himself said that I had to do this.”

This sentence was met with a blank face. Alice realised that Mina didn’t know who the story keeper was. He was known by other names, but what were they?”
“Lucian the magician?” Alice suggested as she struggled to remember the names the story keeper had told to her. Mina shook her head.
“I don’t know who you’re speaking of.”
“Jacque? The man in the blue suit?”

Again she was met with a shake of the head. There was another name and Alice tapped the side of there head angrily, what was that last name.
“Marcus.” She yelled triumphantly. This time she got a different reaction, Mina tilted her head to one side.
“Marcus the hermit of the western woods? He’s the one that said you had to do this?”
“Marcus is more important to wonderland that you know.”

Mina stood up and turned slowly away from Alice. Her body language suggested defeat; someone who knew they had lost an argument. Whether she actually believed Alice’s story or not was irrelevant, all Mina knew was that Alice wanted to leave.
“I don’t want you to go.” She muttered miserably.
“I don’t want to go. But what we want to do and what we have to do are sometimes too different things.” Alice said, sounding just as miserable. Mina looked at her with slight hope returning to her sad eyes.
“I want to come with you.”

That sentence caught Alice completely by surprise and stared wide eyed and open mouth for several seconds.
“I…I…I…” She began but Mina interrupted by putting a finger on her lips.
“My Alice. My sweet precious. Please, don’t answer right away. Please just promise me that you will take time to think of this.”

Alice fell silent and Mina knew she had got her wish. Mina walked to the back of the chair and began to push Alice toward the house.
“It’s getting late, you need to rest.”

The sun wasn’t even beginning to set, Alice wanted to say something but Mina’s tone suggested that this was not something to argue about.

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Later, much later. Alice was lying awake in her bed awake and still thinking about what Mina had asked. Kappu had asked the same thing before she left his village but Alice had refused to let him come. She didn’t know what lay ahead and how he would be affected by it. She didn’t want to risk him getting hurt. But it was a decision that she had regretted, she had gone through several lonely nights and had been attacked by Aradia, that might not have happened if she had extra protection.

There was a noise outside that distracted her train of thought, it couldn’t be Mina. Mina was far too graceful and light on her feet, it was someone, or something else.

Alice sat up and swung her feet out onto the floor. She had moved her legs around while Mina had been nursing her, but she hadn’t actually done any walking since she’d been brought here. With a quiet groan of effort Alice got to her feet and stood unsteadily, but she stayed standing and that was the point. Taking slow and unsteady steps she made her way out into the hall.

The place was dark, candles that hung from brackets on the walls had been extinguished by Mina as she had gone off to bed. It took a few seconds for Alice’s eyes to adjust to the darkness. The tall dark shadows were creepy and made her heart flutter like a bird.

Alice could hear something moving around outside of the building, whatever it was it was something big. She moved silently through the hallway, if she made it to the kitchen she could glance out of the window and see what was out there.

The kitchen was dark but Alice’s eyes had adjusted enough for her to see. there were no chairs and a small table that came up to knee height. Mina would lie on the floor as she ate. What grabbed Alice’s attention was a large bundle that was sitting on the table. It was Alice’s bag! Alice dived in and although she couldn’t see in detail what was sitting in there she could feel that almost everything was there. One dagger was missing, presumably I was still buried into a tree back out in the woods somewhere. Alice took the remaining dagger and held onto it tightly, as her mother always said “Always hope for the best, but plan for the worst.”

Before she got a chance to move toward the window the whole wall collapsed as s large and very strong creature knocked it down. Alice screamed and fell back, tripping over the table and falling onto the floor. The giant shadow moved with an unnatural speed and grabbed Alice around the throat, lifting her off the ground and growled loudly.
“You really think you could escape me?” Said a female voice full of venom. With a whip of the powerful arm Alice was thrown out of the hole in the wall and into the cold night air of the garden. She screamed as she tumbled around and landed hard on the soft dirt.

The creature stepped outside and in the moonlight Alice got a good look at her attacker. The eight legs, the hard exoskeleton that blended so softly into human flesh, the long hair and the large black eyes that looked soulless in the dark of the night.
“Aradia?” Alice whispered. She looked down and saw that one the spider-woman’s hands were missing and in its place was a scarred stump at the end of the wrist. Aradia growled and showed off her sharp fangs.
“The wrath of Aradia is not escaped so easily. You made your choice now you shall pay.”

Alice staggered to her feet and held up her dagger, the way she stood uneasily on her feet made Aradia laugh harshly.
“Aradia I never meant to hurt you.”
“But still you did.” Aradia growled and took several steps forward with her good arm raised and its claws ready. She tensed up for a second and then leapt at Alice.

Out of the shadows there was a mighty roar like a lioness. A blur flew over Alice and tackled Aradia knocking her back several feet. Alice stared intensely and looked at the couple. Mina had flown down from the second floor and was fighting against Aradia.
“Alice go. Run. Go” Mina screamed, her voice was deep and primal like someone trying to speak through a lions roar. Mina was a sphinx, a lions body, eagles wings and human from the waist up with sharp claws on the end of her hands, a truly dangerous creature to battle.
Alice didn’t hesitate she ran past the two fighting creatures and into the ruined kitchen of the house. She stopped just long enough to grab her bag and continued on toward the front door.

Cold, barefoot, stiff from immobility and in pain from her recent injuries and clothed in a nightdress and bandages Alice ran out into the dark forest beyond, not slowing down until the echoes of the ferocious battle between the two monsters died from her ears.

To be continued.
- 7
- 8
- 9
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