Chapter 2: Alice in Horrorland

Alice looked around for the thing watching her but she couldn't find anything. The room seemed to be getting smaller and smaller as time went by. She sat down on the floor because there was nowhere else to sit.

The rabbit man from the garden entered the room. He was carrying a fan and a pair of gloves. He was still looking at his watch and frantically running. Alice studied the rabbit man more carefully. He had rather long whiskers and his outfit was rather sane. The arm his watch was on, his left arm, was cut multiple times. It was as if the rabbit had become mad and cut his own arm.

The rabbit man set down the gloves and the fan, to look at his watch more clearly.

"Oh my, I am very late indeed, the queen will have my head, I must go" The rabbit man said as he ran to the door, unlocked, and left. 

The door clicked behind him, the fan and the gloves still on the floor. 

"How did I get myself into this," Alice said to herself, "And how am I suppose to get out."

A single tear fell down Alice's face and into her lap.

"Don't worry child," A voice called from nowhere.

"Who is it," Alice called back.

"A friend, or an enemy," The voice said back, "Have fun."

"Wait, what's happening," Alice called.

"You have three minutes to find your escape, or else you might just stay in this room forever," The voice laughed, drifting into silence.

A coldness spread over Alice. She looked down at her feet and dark black water had begun to spread through the room. She stood up, her giant form hitting the ceiling cutting her head. The water began rising, the coldness spreading across her legs. While the warm blood fell down here face from her new wound.

Time speed up; seconds became milliseconds, minutes to seconds. The water continued to rise up to her shins and then to her thighs. The darkness seemed to be swallowing her. At the other end of the room she saw an item bobbing up and down on the water.

She splashed through the dark waters, her head throbbing, to get to the item. Her dress getting more and more wet with every step she took. The waters were now up to her knees. Halfway through the room she slipped and fell into the water. The shivering cold spread over her entire body. She tried to breathe but all she found was the cold dark water. She felt as if she were losing herself to the cold She picked herself up and coughed up water. She picked her hair away from her face and she saw the item right in front of her. It was the fan, that the rabbit man had left behind.

"If drinks can make you small," Alice said through coughs as she picked up the fan, "Then maybe a fan can blow away this water."

She began to fan the air around her but all it way doing was making the room bigger and bringing the water closer to her. The water kept getting closer and closer until Alice was swimming it it. The room was completely rather dark, she could barely see a thing.

Alice turned her head at the sound of something splashing in the water, over in the distance. Alice swam to the sound and was very shocked to discover that he had the features of a mouse. He had a pink nose, and long whiskers. His face was small and his eyes were very beady. Strangely though he had the arms of a man.

"Excuse me sir," Alice asked, "Would you mind telling me where I am."

"We are in the dark waters of the cat," The mouse man shivered, "We must get out of these waters before it gets us."

"Before what gets us?" Alice asked.

"The cat," The mouse man yelled.

"And what is wrong with the cat," Alice asked?

"The cat is the one that made these waters, he will make sure that no animal leaves them alive," He said.

Something brushed up against Alice's leg.

"I think there may be something in the water" Alice said

"It's him, the cat has come for us" The mouse man said as he swam as fast as possible in the other direction.

The thing brushed against Alice's leg once more. She began swimming slower than the mouse man, but still in a sense of urgency. She could feel the thing moving behind her, gaining on her. She increased her speed and so did the thing. She kept swimming and the thing grabbed her leg and pulled her under. She could feel the cold water all around her again. 

She wouldn't breathe, dare she drown. The thing began circling around her, getting closer, and closer, and closer, until she could feel the bubbly breath of the beast around her. She tried to swim up but the thing brought her back down, cutting her leg spilling blood into the dark waters. Her lungs began to strain against the lack of air. She felt the thing brushing up against her, it was slimy, not cat like at all. She grabbed it, pushed it away, and swam as hard as she could and broke surface. 

She took a deep breath in and out to get her lungs working properly. In the distance she saw an small shelf with various people on it dancing around a fire. Finally a salvation to the loneliness that she had been through. A light in the dark.