Playing in the Queen of Hearts' Castle

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Nessa and Eric walk into the gardens. Nessa holds Eric's arm because it's way too dark and Eric doesn't seem to be afraid at all.

Eric: Why are you holding my arm so tight?
Me: You never know what might follow us
Eric: You are scared!
Me: How do you know if I'm scared?
Eric *grins*: Because you hold my arm
Me: Well...I will let your arm go then
Eric: I actually kinda like it
Me: You are sooo mean
Eric* grins harder*: No missy, I'm very nice
Me: You bet! Ha!

In the meantime Pippin wakes up because he heard a noise. When he watches he sees the head of a dragon.

Pippin: AAAAAGGHH!!!!!
Merry *jumps up*: PIPPIN! WHAT IS IT?!
Pippin: Merry, look! It's a dragon!
Merry: Very funny Pip! Smaug is death
Pippin: But look!!!
Merry *looks up*: AAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Pippin: I told you! I told you!

The White Rabbit and the Hatter are rushing to them.

Hatter: What's going on?
Rabbit: A DRAGON! Run for your lifes!!
Eragon: Don't be scared! We don't do any harm to you!

Everybody looks up to the rider on top of the Dragon. While they are talking to Eragon and Sapphira the Hatter grabs the hand of the Rabbit.

Hatter: Rabbit...watch!
Rabbit: What is it?
Hatter: It looks like we are missing two people
Rabbit: Let me guess.....he and she?
Hatter *nodds*: Indeed
Rabbit: SIGH...........what are they doing?
 
* Hannah pulls Edmund around the dragon*

Me: Oh, wow it's so cool Sapphira can I ride you?

* Sapphira nods*

Sapphira : Yes, if you like young one.

Me: Edmund you coming with me on this ride now don't be afrid she won't hurt you she a nice Dragon.

* Hannah help him on Sapphira *
 
They walk on, following the cat in silence. The Cat wisely says nothing as he senses a lot of tension between the two people following him.
Me: It's dark out now.
Peter: Really? I hadn't noticed.
Me: *sigh* Would you please stop? I'm to tired to argue right now.
Peter: Then don't.
Me: I'm not!
Peter: Are you?
Me: *sigh* I give up.....
Peter: *to himself* It's about time.
 
Having found Glinda's wand from The Wizard of Oz hidden in the queen's library, where she obviously never spends time given the layer of dust, Lady Inkling waves it and floats above the castle in a giant bubble. Not everyone can travel by bubble, you know, but when you can you should. High in the air, she notes the shape of the blue dragon carrying Hannah and Ed and waves at the three.

"Sapphira, isn't it? I wonder...perhaps you could all undertake a quest. If you succeed, it would render the queen helpless to ever again utter the phrase 'Off With Their Head'. I must warn you, though: there is danger involved."
 
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Me: *looks hurt* I heard that you know.
Peter: Sorry.
Alice doesn't answer him. She just keeps on walking.
Cat: Not much farther now, we're almost there.
Me: Good!

Suddenly, they hear a noise.
Me: What was that?
Cat: It was only the dragon taking Edmund and and Hannah for a ride.
Me: *looks relieved* So we're nearly there now!
Cat: Yes.

They reach the place where the others are (all except nessa and eric, who seem to have wandered off).
 
* Hannah looks up with a smile*

Me: Oh, Ink you alive we where do worried about you.

Sapphira: Don't worry I won't get far.

* Flies back to the others*

Me: Ah that was so much fun wasn't it Ed?

* Edmund's face was white*

Sapphira: I'm glad you had fun young one please stay close to the others.

Me: I well don't worry about me Sapphira but I think Edmund didn't enjoy the ride how sad * Sigh*
 
Pippin screams from joy.

Pip: Merry! They are there! They are there!
Merry: Yes but where are Nessa and Eric?
Rabbit: I'm not going to search for those two. They seem to go on an adventure everytime.

But the Rabbit didn't know Nessa heard a scream which woke her up.

Hatter: Yes...young people...when do they finally listen?
Pippin: can I ride the dragon too?
Merry: First Edmund and Hannah

Nessa and Eric still walk through the gardens.

Eric: But what scream did you hear?
Me: A female
Eric: Wasn't it the Queen?
Me: Perhaps she was, perhaps not. Why do you laugh?
Eric *laughs*: I just don't know. It's all so funny
Me: Walking around in the middle of the night with a torch searching for someone who might need help?
Eric: This is wonderland Nessa. What else would you expect?
Me: A dragon is the only thing that's missing
Eric: I'm here so don't worry
Me: You are certainly a big help. The next time I'm back I will switch sports
Eric: You'll ban hockey?
Me: Maybe I do or I will ban you
Eric: You are so funny when you get angry
Me: Ha! You haven't seen me real angry

Nessa and Eric continue their search to the mysterious scream
 
Alice is very glad to be back with the others, but she is still pretty mad at Peter and refuses to speak to him.

Rabbit: It appears that you don't want to talk to him.
Me: I don't.
Rabbit: Why not?
Me: Because everytime I do, we end getting into a fight. It's beginning to get on my nerves!
Rabbit: *chuckles*
Me: What is so funny?
Rabbit: I'm sorry, my dear, it's you!
Me: Agh! *runs away and hides somewhere and cries*
 
* Hannah walks up to Pippin*

Me: Pippin do you want a ride on her?

Sapphira: I haven't seen someone that small before

Me: He a hobbit he every nice.

* takes his hand*

Me: Now Edmund don't get mad because I'm not holding your hand.
 
Alice hides and cries out all of her angry tears. After that, she sits in her hiding place for a while and listens to the all of the sounds around her. She notices that the stars have come out. Laying back on the grass, she decides to count as many as she can. All is quiet around her.
 
Aslan suddenly appears to Alice, and says, "You have been far too thin-skinned, CHOOSING to take offense at things which most people would simply shrug off. This comes from too much of turning the mind inward upon itself. I do not ask you to think of yourself as bad, but to think LESS about yourself. Did you even thank the kung-fu master Ah-To for getting you and Peter out of the motion-distorting zone? He's gone his way now; but it is not too late for you to start being more courteous to Peter. Now hurry, dear heart, and you can still get in on the adventure Lady Inkling is proposing."

And the Lion vanishes.
 
Me: *sits up* I - I must be dreaming.... But I can't have been; that was Aslan! Oh dear, I have been terrible to him. I should go and say I'm sorry. I just hope he doesn't have some smart remark to say back. Oh no, Alice, don't start thinking like that again! That'll only make things worse -
Peter: Alice, are you talking to yourself?
Me: *jumps* Um, well, I - I guess it's just that - Oh dear! Listen, Peter, I - I'm terribly sorry for saying the things that I did and acting that way towards you; It wasn't right. I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?
Peter: *smiles* Yes, I will. And I didn't make things any better by egging you on. Will you forgive me?
Me: Sure.
Peter: The other's sent me to find you. Lady Inkling is sending us on a quest. Come on!
They run off back to where the others are gathered.
 
Lady Inkling, having gently alighted on the ground in her bubble, appraises the group with arched brow, waiting to see if they're willing.

"I cannot guarantee your safety, but I do know One who will watch over you. Are you prepared to accept the quest? It will require all of you to fulfill, and the queen mustn't suspect your mission, or she /will/ attempt to stop you."
 
Of course, they all say that they want to go on a quest, being rather bored of just sitting around. Pippin and Merry are very enthusiasic.
 
Lady Inkling nods, her countenance solemn. Her eyes fix on each one of them briefly before she explains,

"Very well, then. The first item we need is the slippers as pure as gold. They have been lost for some time, and even I cannot tell you where they are anymore. There may be a clue, however, if you search under the oldest oak tree in the garden."

She tucks her wand away for safekeeping.

"In the meantime, I will devise a distraction for the queen to keep her off our trail."
 
Suddenly Jake, the younger of the gunslinger brothers from "Silverado," saunters up to Lady Inkling, tipping his hat. "Howdy again, ma'am. The steakhouse is closed up at present, so I thought I'd mosey over. I can't join your posse on this here quest 'cause Emmett will need me back on our thread, but I can create a diversion so's the Queen of Hearts won't notice what y'all are doin'. I'll go someplace where guards can hear me--I'll let you point to where I should be--and start singin' some old cowboy songs good an' loud an' off-key."
 
Me: *to Peter* That oughta work.
Peter: It had better work. I don't like to think about what that Queen'll do to us if she finds out.
Me: That's why I try not to think about it, Peter. You'd do well to do the same thing.
Peter: If you say so.
Me: I'm just going to ignore that comment.
Peter: *sigh* I'll stop.
Me: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Merry: Can you two cut it out for a while?
Peter: Sure; no problem, I hope.
Me: What?
Peter: Never mind.
 
Twirling his twin Colt .45's, Jake tells Alice, "Ain't no bodaciously grouchy Queen gonna get MY head whopped off; and you folks'll get a good head start. Inkling, ma'am, where should I go sing? Even if y'all got a distraction of your own planned, it never hurts to have MORE than one distraction to brush the trail."
 
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Suddenly Jake, the younger of the gunslinger brothers from "Silverado," saunters up to Lady Inkling, tipping his hat. "Howdy again, ma'am. The steakhouse is closed up at present, so I thought I'd mosey over. I can't join your posse on this here quest 'cause Emmett will need me back on our thread, but I can create a diversion so's the Queen of Hearts won't notice what y'all are doin'. I'll go someplace where guards can hear me--I'll let you point to where I should be--and start singin' some old cowboy songs good an' loud an' off-key."
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Lady Inkling gives the gunslinger a grateful smile, dropping into a respectful curtsy.

"Good sir, you are indeed valiant. Pray do as you have suggested," she says, indicating the most opportune location to enact the plan. With this, she grimaces slightly, since the off key tunes will be painful to her sensitive singer's ears.
 
When Jake is at his station close to the castle, he awaits a visual signal from Inkling. (Thus, what follows can be assumed, if necessary, to happen AFTER some other posts about the characters getting ready.) At the right time, he cuts loose with:


"I'm an old cow-HAAAAAAAAAAAND
From the Rio GRAAAAAAAAAND,
But my legs ain't bowed,
And my cheeks ain't tanned!

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow,
Never roped a steer, 'cause I don't know how,
And I sure don't reckon to start in now!
Yippee-aye-oh-ki-ay-ay,
Yippee-aye-oh-ki-ay!"


OOC: No, I didn't make that up. It originated in my parents' generation.
 
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