Fractured+Fairytales-+Sparkle+Ponies

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍**‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Malice in Wonderland**  ** ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍By: Gabrielle Carter, Chyanne Oestreich** I'm stuck in this stupid insane asylum, all alone. Everyone here thinks I'm crazy, when they're the crazy ones. I don't even know why I'm here; it's not like I'm crazy. Well yeah, I see things that other people don't see, so what? Children see imaginary friends, people don't throw them into a sanatorium. I don't even care anymore. The people here don't like me, and I don't like them, so at least the feeling is mutual. Ding ding! There goes the bell, it's time for lunch. Eating time is the only time I come out of my room, and even then I don't want to. I head down the hallway to the cafeteria, where everyone else is already there. I push open the doors and I'm met with disgusted looks and numerous glares, even by the doctors. I grab a plate and sit down at a table in the far back corner, alone. This is how it's like everyday though, me in the back, all by myself, but today was different than every other day. I was sitting there in the back like normal, but someone was walking towards me. A boy, about my age. He keeps looking back at his friends, who just smile at him. He sits down, smiles at me, and then starts eating. "Why are you sitting here?" I ask. "Because I'm just trying to be friendly. Uhh..so I'm not really that hungry. Do you wanna go on a walk?" He said. Robert, I believe is his name. "Uhhh..I guess?" Robert and I get up from our table and begin walking out of the cafeteria when we stop by a mirror that was quite large. I look into the mirror and I start to see images come into view. I see the white rabbit, the chesire cat, the red queen, and many other things from my visits to Wonderland. I had first been to Wonderland four or five years ago, right after my house burned down and my parents were killed. I've been here ever since. I had told my friends about Wonderland...and all they did was throw me in an insane asylum. I suddenly felt a push on my back and I was falling face first into the mirror. I heard laughter behind me, including Robert's. As I fell, I was bracing myself for the crash that was going to happen, but I was very surprised and abash when it doesn't happen; I fall right through the mirror! I start looking downward as I fall, it is just a hole full of bright, arbitrary colors, and abounding pieces of furniture. As I look up and see Robert and his friends looking at me, I notice their mouths are wide open and have an amazed look on their face. //Yeah, serves you right to be shocked. Trying to push me into a flippin' mirror! I told you guys I'm not crazy, but no one ever believed me. Maybe when I get back from wherever I'm going, Wonderland I hope, they will believe me//, I think. I shut my eyes and let myself fall, I feel the air blow past me as I fall down and down. When I sense ground beneath me, I open my eyes and I am in Wonderland. I think I am in Wonderland...something is wrong, though. Something is very wrong. I just don't know what ...  **~** Malice has a deranged look in her eyes as soon as she realizes where she is. As she looks around the vicinity, trying to recognize just something from her previous visit, she sees a figure way off in the distance. As she walks closer to the figure, she realizes it's the Chesire Cat. "I'll offer you advice along your journey, Malice." He whispers to her. And with that, he disappears. //That was odd,// Malice thinks to herself. She continues on her way. She finds herself right next to a bubbling fountain of purple. She is very thirsty, so she takes a sip. Everything around her seemed to be growing...or is she shrinking? This is how she is going to have to walk around Wonderland for awhile. She slips into a crack in a rock, and on the other side is hundreds of glowing mushrooms. She also notices destruction all around her. It looks like thousands of machines have blown up and were scattered everywhere. She wonders what could have caused such demolition. She jumps up on the mushrooms, and they spring her up in the air. She follows the trail of springing mushrooms until she comes to a large mechanical building. As she wanders inside, she comes across The Mad Hatter. Something is terribly off about him. It seems one of his legs had been torn off, and all of his other limbs were replaced with mechanical parts. "Malice...please help me. The March Hare went insane and did this to me." The Mad Hatter relays to Malice. Malice tells The Mad Hatter that she will do everything in her ability to help him. What she doesn't know is The Mad Hatter is really the crazy one. She travels all around the mechanical building finding The Mad Hatter's real appendages. She fights her way past the evil tea pots that spewed lava, and finally she finds The March Hare! With the Hatter's limbs in his back pocket, she realizes she must defeat him to help an old friend. Malice pulls out her Vorpal blade, and begins slicing her way to the limbs. With a pool of blood around her, she knows she has won. She gets the legs and arms and brings them back to The Mad Hatter. He puts them back on himself and does a meniacal laugh. He tries to kill Malice and she narrowly escapes. What had she done? She had created a monster! **~**  //What is wrong with him? The Mad Hatter is my friend...I can't believe he tried to kill me. I helped him! What have I done? The Chesire Cat, I need advice from him//, I think as I escape The Mad Hatter. There is something wrong here in Wonderland. Someone...or something has taken over, destroying everything and creating monsters. It needs to be stopped, and I am going to stop it. In order to help, I needed the Chesire Cat's help first. Where is he? "Looking for me?" a smile undertones from the tree. I jump back startled, as The Chesire Cat's body came into view. "What's happening here? Why is it like this?" I bark at him. "To find what's wrong without, you must first find what's wrong within." "What's that suppose to mean? I have to find whats wrong with in what?" I yell at him. "Good luck on your journey, Malice." smiles the Chesire Cat as he begins to disappear. "No! Wait, don't leave! I don't understand what I'm suppose to do! Please, help..." I sob into my hands. What great advice that is. It was nothing but a witless riddle that has nothing to do with anything. Gosh, he is absolutely no help at all. It looks like I'm going to have to figure out this stuff out all on my own then, I think. I figure I have to find the Catepillar. I am on a long journey, filled with me having to kill lots of people and creatures. I climb a very large mountain, and find the Catepillar, in his caccoon. He offers no advice, except the same as the Chesire Cat's. This was all for nothing! This stupid journey was useless! I think as I begin to cry; I don't know what to do anymore. How am I going to help save Wonderland if I don't know how to solve the stupid riddle? ** ~﻿ ** **﻿** As Malice climbs down the mountain, she cries. Her sobs echo throughout the forest that she is in. She hears leaves crunching and twigs breaking behind her, and she braced herself for the monster that she thinks is coming. As she turns around, hearing a ticking, her friend the White Rabbit comes into view. "You're late!" the White Rabbit hollers at Malice, while checking his clock. "White Rabbit! It's so good to see someone who isn't trying to hurt me or give me stupid riddles that make no sense!" Malice cried while embracing him. "YOU'RE LATE!" "Late for what?" "The Red Queen needs to see you, immediately! Follow me!" the White Rabbit demands while running ahead of Malice. "Hey! Wait up!" Malice shouts while running to catch up with him. The White Rabbit and Malice travel through the Green Forest all the way to the Red Forest, where the Queen's castle is. There are many cardmen staying guard outside of the castle. They turn their heads as Malice and the White Rabbit enter the Red Forest. "KILL HER!" a cardman says to the others. They all take our their swords and charge at Malice. She screams and runs the only way she can, forward, toward the castle. She is nearing the door, and she is surounded by the cardmen, her only escape is to go through the castle. Malice pushes open the door, and looks behind her as she continues to run. The cardmen are stopping, they won't come in the castle. Malice is safe, or so she thinks. As she turns around she sees the Red Queen towering over her. The castle doors close with a loud bang...Malice is stuck. There is nowhere for Malice to go. She is trapped by the Red Queen, and her many cardmen. "OFF WITH HER HEAD!" comes a scream from the Red Queen. The cardmen start moving closer, slowly closing the circle. Swords raised, Malice doesn't know what to do. Doing the first thing that comes to mind, Malice crawls underneath the cardmen's legs and bolts up the stairs. She can hear the hollers and footsteps behind her, but she refuses to turn around not wanting to know how close they are to her. Nearing the top of the castle, Malice sees no escape but the window. Turning around, Malice sees that they are only a few steps behind her, she knows she must make her decision now or it will be too late. Jump, or run forever. Malice leaped at the open window and falls. Looking up, she sees the Red Queen's face leaning out the window with a smile spreading across her face. Malice closes her eyes and lets herself fall down. When Malice opens up her eyes again, she realizes she is lying in bed,back in the insane asylum. //It couldn't have just been a dream,// Malice thought. //It was too real, I had been in Wonderland before. It wasn't a dream, it was real! I know it was!// The door creaks open slowly, and in walks the advisor, but something was strange about the advisor that she has never noticed before. Is that the same scar she had given the Red Queen? It was the Red Queen! Malice runs out of her room screaming, but she bumps into Richard. There is something strange about him too. She has never noticed his prosthetic leg before...it was almost the same as...the Mad Hatter's! She looks around the entire asylum, sees all of the faces and realizes that everyone here is from Wonderland. Malice thinks back to when she first went to Wonderland and why she went. She remembers that is was to get away from the real world and the death of her family. Malice remembers the riddle the Chesire Cat gave her. **//To find what's wrong without, you must first find what's wrong within.//**

Malice, at that moment, begins to realize that the world around her is Wonderland. Malice had created Wonderland to escape from the real world. //It's not Wonderland that needs fixing, it's myself. Once I fix what's wrong with me, there will be no need to fix Wonderland anymore, it will already be fixed. I am Wonderland//, she thinks, //and everything around me is Wonderland.//