Alice in Wonderland rough draft

Still working on the alternate versions but here is a rough draft for the DA version.

Alice in Wonderland World Part 3

The Rabbit’s House.

I hurried along the path, trying to catch up with Carien.  “I need to find her and find a way out of this park.  I am having a hard time telling what is real and what isn’t anymore.”

I shook my head.

The path continued into a small forest.  Small signs continued to point towards the rabbit house attraction just down the road, but they came few and far between as I made my way along the dirt path.  “This is an awfully realistic forest to have in a theme park.  I wonder just how big this place?  From the parking lot, I could see to the other side, but now there is a massive forest I can’t tell when it will ever end?”

I noticed a quaint-looking house in between the trees up ahead.  I hurried my pace and came into a small glade.  It was a two-story house with blue and white paint, cute oval-shaped windows, and a pink picket gate fence.  I slowly walked up as I examined the garden to the right side of the house with carrots and cabbages.

As I neared the picketed gate, I saw Carien pacing back and forth.  I waved to her. “Hey.  I finally caught up with you.”

She turned around.  “Marry Ann, where have you been?”

“Marry Ann?  Hey, you know me.  Did that white rabbit outfit go to your brain?”

She hopped around behind me and pushed against my back.  “Of course I know you Marry Ann.  The question is, what are you doing dodailing around out here.  Get inside and fetch my gloves and fan.”

“Gloves?  Carien, come on.”

She pushed me through the gate and into the front lawn.  “Hurry, hurry.  I won’t be late for the duchess.”

“Ok, I am going.”  I shook my head.  “Taking orders from my friend who thinks she is the white rabbit.  What next?”

I opened the door and stepped inside the house.

There were pictures of carrots lining the walls and a padded armchair next to a fireplace to the right.  To my left was a stairwell with blue steps and a white guarded rail that led upstairs.

I went over to the desk with curved legs by the chair and checked the drawers.  “I wonder where she would keep the gloves?”  I sighed.  “What am I saying?  Carien hasn’t been here a day in her life; why would she keep gloves here?”

I shut the drawer and crossed my arms.  “Well, they are not down here.  I better check upstairs.”

I walked up the stairs to the second floor.  I entered the first door and came into a quaint bedroom with more pictures of carrots hanging from the wall.

“Wait, that isn’t right.”  I walked over to the picture hanging by a nearby window.  “It is a picture of the white rabbit, but it looks just like Carien.  But how is that even possible.  Goodness me what is happening.  I better get her those gloves and fan and hurry out of here.”

I examined the rest of the room.  There was a straw bed with pink sheets at the far end of the room with a trunk in front of it. On the right wall was a dresser with a mirror and another bottle sitting on it.

“Hmm.  I wonder what that is doing here.”  I picked up the bottle and examined it.  “It isn’t marked Drink Me like the other bottle.  I am sure it will make something interesting happen.  I hope it makes me grow large again. Otherwise, I may never leave this park.”  I drank half of the bottle before setting it back down.  “Now to find those gloves and fan for the white rabbit.”

I dug through the dresser, having to bend over more and more as I searched through each drawer.  It became more challenging to fit my hands inside the drawers to shift through the clothing, so I pulled the last drawer out.  “Where are those pesky gloves?  Ohh.”

I bent down as my head hit the ceiling.  “Oh no, not again.”  I looked at the door.  “I am far too big to fit through that door now.  Oh my, what am I going to do?”

I sat down as I tried to find more room for myself.

My dress began to press furniture up against the wall, and I felt my back push the bed up against the back wall.  I slid my arms out the windows to give myself some more breathing room as I continued to grow, and my heels hit the far wall that I had walked in from.

“Marry Ann.  What is taking you so long?”

Carien?

She can’t see me like this.

When she tried to walk in, I pressed my heel against the door.  But I didn’t know my own strength, and I knocked down the door, my leg extending outward onto the lawn outside.  I could hear Carien cry out as she was carried away on my giant foot.

“Mmmm, monster.  Someone help.”

My other leg shot through the house and into the fireplace on the first floor as my growth came to a stop.  I put my hands down onto the ground, trying to push myself off the ground, but the house held firm.  “I am stuck.  Whatever am I going to do?”

“Dodo, thank goodness you are here.  A monster just appeared in my house.  I can’t imagine what it did to Marry Ann.”

Dodo?

I felt around until I found the window that was in front of my face and opened it.  I could then see Carien hopping around my legs with a large and round man standing next to him with an exotic bird costume.  He had a pipe that he constantly puffed smoke from as he looked up and down my leg.

“It is a monster, all right.  Healthy bugger ain’t it.”

“What are you going to do to help me get back my poor house?”

The dodo took another puff from his pipe.  “There is only one way to get rid of a monster.”

“Tell me.”

“We burn it out.”

Carien fell to her knees and grabbed at the dodo’s jacket.  “Oh no, anything but that.”

I tapped my hands on the ground.  “I have to agree.  Anything but that.  I won’t let you burn me out of here.”

The dodo shrugged.  “Well, there is one other thing we can try.”  He brought up a feathered hand to his face and whistled.  “Bill, where are you, lad.”

A lizard carrying a ladder came from around the corner.

I squinted my eyes.  He is in a costume, right?

Bill waved as he neared the dodo.  “Hello, governor.  What can I do for you?”

The dodo reached out his arm and pulled Bill in close.

“I have a job for you.”  He pointed up at the house.  “You see, we need someone to go inside and flush the monster out of the house.”

“Oh, no, no, no.”  He started to back away.

The dodo pulled Bill back in.  “Come now.  Think of your bloodline, good sir, of your ancestors.”

“My, my ancestors?”

They started walking towards the house.  “Of course.  You are the descendant of kings.  You have lion's blood in your veins.”

“I do?”

The dodo put the ladder up against the house.

“Sure.  Now channel that courage, slide down the chimney and see about flushing out that pesky monster.  You can do it, lad.”

“You are right.  I can do this.”  He hurried up the ladder.  “I can do this.  I can do this.”  Bill came to the window and looked me in the face.

“I can’t do this.”  He wrapped himself around the ladder.

“Come on, lad.  Don’t let the ugly maw of fear paralyze you.”

I clenched my fist.  “Hey, will you cut out that monster stuff?”  I slammed my fist down, causing the ladder to vibrate.  “I am getting a little bit tired of it all.”

“Oh no.”  Bill scurried up the ladder.

“That is it.  Good job, lad.”

I could now hear the roof creaking as Bill walked towards the chimney.  I can’t let him inside.  No telling what they will try and do.  I can just move my left foot; if he tries to slide down the chimney, I will give him a surprise.

I felt soot fall against my left foot.  “Here I go.”

Planting my hands down, I kicked out, hitting Bill and sending him flying out of the chimney and clear into the cabbage patch.

Carien and the dodo came running to his aid.

“Bill, are you alright, my lad?”  Asked the dodo.

“Never . . . better.”  Bill coughed up a cloud of soot.

The dodo stood up.  “Now, we have no choice.  We must burn the monster out.”

Carien shook her head.  “But my house.”

“It is the only one hundred percent foolproof way to get rid of monsters, my good sir.  Now, where is that pesky match?”

I pressed my hands on the ground and tried to free myself once more.  “I have to get out of here now.”  I watched as the dodo walked up to my heel and used it to light his match.  “I need a new plan.  I need to eat something.  Maybe it will make me shrink.”  I looked out of the right window between the cracks that my arm wasn’t taking up.  “Carrots.

That is it.”  I reached out and picked one out, only to have Carien grab onto it.

“Oh no, you don’t.  I won’t let dodo burn my house down nor let some monster eat my carrots.”

I brought the carrot up near my face.

“Carien, I have to eat something.

I won’t let him burn this house down with me inside it.”

She held her arms around the carrot.  “No, I will protect my harvest with my life.”

I shook her loose, letting her fall to the ground.

I then bit into the carrot.  I then immediately began shrinking.  My arms retreated into the house, and my legs bounded back up the stairs.  Down and down, I went passing my original size and shrinking even more.  The room became massive, and I fell over, landing on my rear end as I finally came to a stable size.

I looked up; I was just smaller than the bottle had been.  I scratched at the back of my head.  “Goodness, at least I am not stuck anymore.”

I made my way out of the house, where I found that Carien was still fighting with dodo on trying not to burn the house down.

The dodo now had a match lit, and they were chasing each other around on the lawn.  “Calm down.  If you just let me do my job, we will have this monster business taken care of.”

“I told you before I won’t let you hurt my precious home.”

I crossed my arms.  “This is insane.  What happened to this being just a Wonderland-themed park?”  I sighed.  “How is it that I can be stuck being a few inches tall like this?  I want someone to jump out and tell me this is some elaborate joke, but they don’t.  What am I going to do?”

I walked for the forest's edge.  I wasn’t sure where I was going, but I knew I couldn’t stick around here.