Elizabeth A.K.A Lizard was washing in the lake when she saw a bottle stuck on some rocks in the river. She walked over to it picked it up a opened the lid.
A cloud of red smoke piled out of the bottle and a few second later Will stood there with a very confused look on his face.
Lizards eyes widened when she saw who was standing in front of her, "Will." She said tackling him into a hug
"Lizard, Woah." Will said turning his head away when Lizards towel fell down slightly, "I thought you were dead."
"I thought you were stone." Lizard replied tightly holding her towel, "Or at least a statue." She glanced down at the bottle, "What were you doing in there?"
"Long story, involves magic even if I understood it, which I don't I definitely don't have time to explain it." Will said and after he was finished he turned away and began to walk away
"You're leaving?" Lizard asked running after him
"Listen, Alice, Cyrus and Ella are in real trouble I have to make sure they're safe."
"But you just got here-"
Will cut Lizard off calling, "Yeah I know we'll catch up later."
"Will wait!" Lizard yelled and Will got pulled back by an invisible force landing by Lizards feet he quickly got to his feet and turned around to face Lizard, "What just happened?" She asked
Will put his hands in his pocket, "Bloody hell." He pulled out his hand and three small red diamonds were in his hand he held his hand out to Lizard, "I think these are for you."
"What are they?" Lizard asked
"Wishes." Will said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world and handed them to her,
"Mistress mine my will is think tell me your wishes three." He said robotically, "Bloody hell! Is it the same rhyme for everything."
"What are you talking about? And what was that?" Lizard asked with a really confused look on her face.
"I'm pretty sure I'm a Genie Lizard." Will said, looking scared
"And I'm your master." Lizard said with a smirk on her face.
. . . .
"You two are even more insufferable together do you know that?" Anastasia asked once interrupting a very romantic moment from Alice and Cyrus
"What are you doing here?" Alice said getting off the bed and pulling her sword out form underneath it.
"Alice Wait!" Cyrus said
Anastasia stood up from where she was sitting, "Don't threaten me darling." She said raising her hand but was stopped by Ella who had grabbed her arm
"Enough, I don't have time for this." Ella said as Anastasia pulled her arm away
"She's right." Cyrus agreed, "We can either work together or perish together."
Alice turned to face Cyrus, "Why on earth would we work with her?"
Ella's eyes widened as Cyrus said, "She doesn't remember."
"Or maybe she just doesn't care." Anastasia said bluntly
"What are you talking about?" Alice asked
Ella moved round to face Alice saying, "Will... getting electrocuted then in turn us getting electrocuted, he made a wish to save us now he's gone... remember any of that?"
"The wish you gave to the Knave." Cyrus said expanding on what Ella had said, "He wished to end yours and Ella's suffering which not only saved your life it granted me my freedom."
"And unfortunately as you all know magic always comes with a price." Anastasia said
"Dearie." Ella muttered under her breath
Alice's eyes widened as she realised, "And the bottle must always have a Genie so Will he's..."
"I'm afraid so which is why we can't leave Wonderland not yet."
"We have to save him." Anastasia stated sitting back down where she was before
"We! Don't have to do anything." Alice protested
"Alice! if there's one thing I know from being a Genie is what people wish for the most and I am telling you the Queen wants the same thing you do to be with the person you love." He looked over to Anastasia, "To be with Will."
"As much as I hate to say it, if we are going to find him before Jafar does we are going to need all the help we can get." Ella said with her leg on a chair, and putting daggers in her boots and up her thigh. "And we could use all the magic we can too, I'm powerful but so is she."
Alice thought about it for a moment the she sighed giving in, "Fine, we find the bottle, save Will and then..." She glanced over to Ella, "Get the hell out of Wonderland."
Ella smiled at hearing that knowing that her and Will were the ones to say it to her in the first place.
. . . . .
"So if the bottle rolled down this hill." Alice said looking up and down the muddy path, "It most likely ended up here."
"In the river." Cyrus said
"Must we walk directly in the mud?" Anastasia asked as Ella tried to hold back a laugh seeing the amount of times that the Queen had almost fallen over.
"What's the matter 'Queen' or is it only your hands you like to get dirty." Alice said mocking Anastasia
Anastasia glared at Alice and said, "Cyrus you ought to teach your girlfriend some manners... before someone else does."
"Chances are the bottle carried down stream, we keep to the path of the river we find Will." Ella said
"Can't you track him?" Cyrus asked, "With your..."
"If he's in a bottle obviously not... don't you think I've tried." Ella said walking along the rivers edge.
. . . .
After a few minutes of Alice, Anastasia, Cyrus and Ella walking along the path in silence, Ella span around to say something to Anastasia when she quickly walked up the path to where Cyrus and Alice were saying, "Uh, guys problem Anna's gone."
"She was right behind you." Cyrus said walking towards her
"I know-"
Alice cut off Ella saying, "I can't believe I fell for it again."
"Alice we don't know-"
"Yes we do!" Alice snapped at Cyrus, "The tiger hasn't changes it's stripes."
"Alright so what's her plan off to find the Knave on her own?" Cyrus asked
"I really need to get used to that name again." Ella thought to herself.
"Yes, but the more important question is why." Alice said
"All that matters is finding him, I don't care how we do it or who we do it with. We find him, we find my brother then we get the hell out of Wonderland." Ella replied
. . . .
"We shouldn't be looking for the Red Queen we should be looking for the Knave he's the one in danger." Alice protested after a few minutes of them trying to find Anastasia
"I agree, I know Anna and she can handle herself, we need to find my brother." Ella said
"The sooner we find him the sooner we can leave and start our life together." Alice said standing in front of Cyrus.
"And the sooner I can go home to somewhere that isn't the woods." Ella pointed out
"But what if somethings happened to her?" Cyrus asked
"The only thing that's happened is she's gone to get the bottle on her own." Alice said as Cyrus turned his head ready to agree
"Over there!" He said pointing to a bush, "Broken branches."
"And a piece of her dress." Ella said looking at the piece of red fabric on the ground with a sigh, realising that they now had to go and find Anastasia and put back finding Will.
"No sign of a struggle." Alice said looking around
"We can do a locator spell." Cyrus said, "Fetch me some-"
Ella cut Cyrus off saying, "Give it here," Cyrus gave her the piece of fabric and she held it to her nose and very quickly her eyes changed from brown to blue, "Bloody hell there's a lot of perfume on this thing, follow me I can find her."
Ella then walked off and every so often she would hold up the fabric to her nose and quickly pulling it away with the amount of perfume that she could smell. Alice and Cyrus shared a look and quickly followed her.
. . . .
"I'm not the monster you think I am." Anastasia pleaded as she was being dragged out into a field by a mop of angry villagers, "Once upon a time I was one of you... I know what it's like to be angry at the law and your life." Two villagers tied her to a post in the field
"So why didn't you listen to our pleas for help?" One Villager asked, "Every winter we begged for protection from the creatures who invaded or village searching for food." He turned to face the rest of the mob, "Well tonight we finally have something decent to feed them."
All the villagers cheered and held up their torches and weapons
"We can't just leave her there." Cyrus said as the were crouched down behind the villagers watching what was happening.
"Why not?" Ella asked, "One less bad person in this world."
"We don't even know what they're planning... granted it doesn't look good." Alice stated
"Alice..." Cyrus trailed off
"No, Cyrus if we were the ones being tied to stakes what would she do, she would leave us." Ella said pushing her last dagger back into the holder on her thigh.
"She wouldn't leave you." Cyrus countered, "But we are better than her."
"I'm not." Ella said with a smirk but she turned to face Cyrus who was giving her a look, "Uh, fine come on."
. . . . .
"No one, no one would pay." Anastasia realised when the villager would ask her who would pay her ransom
"We'll pay." Cyrus said and all the villagers turned around to face them.
"How much you gonna pay for her?" A villager asked
Cyrus turned to Alice and Ella saying, "Do you have anything."
Ella gave him a look and said, "Does it look like I have any money, honestly Cyrus next time we leave."
Cyrus turned back to the villager and said, "Well it was really more of a gesture."
The villager sighed and said, "Move along strangers."
Ella rolled her eyes and pulled out her sword, "We're not leaving... without the Queen."
"Well then you'll suffer the same fate as her."
All the villagers circled the group and started walking towards them, "I am not killing these people." Ella said to herself.
. . . .
"Well nice try darlings." Anastasia said as Ella, Cyrus and Alice were now tied up on separate poles, "Suppose I should take this time to say thank you, you are about the only people in Wonderland who care if I die."
"To be honest Anna, I think they want me to die more than you." Ella said struggling against the ropes, "And that's bloody brilliant my claws don't reach the rope and where the hell did these people get magic resistant ropes from?"
Ella started to look around when she heard a very familiar howling noise
"We need to get rid of the torches." Anastasia said gesturing to the lights that were circled around them, "The creatures they're drawn to the fire."
"No they're not... Anna have you ever been scratched by a Bandersnatch but it didn't turn you?" Ella asked with a look of fear on her face
"Yes why... what has that got to do with anything?" Anastasia asked trying to kick over the lamps, just as Alice and Cyrus were doing,
"Because they're not after the fire, they're after me and you the ones that have been scratched by one of them." Ella said just as ten creatures with bright blue eyes came walking out of the bushes, "Bandersnatch's,"
"Wait... didn't one turn you?" Alice asked successfully kicking a light over, "Can't you scare them away."
"T-They wouldn't be scared of me." Ella said trying to undo her ropes,
"TRY!" They all yelled
Ella sighed saying, "Fine, fine chill."
She then shut her eyes, and opened them quickly making them turn blue. Took a deep breath and roared. Successfully scaring the Bandersnatch's off right before they were about to pounce.
Ella broke her ropes as she did so and quickly moved over to Alice to untie her, "God I hate Bandersnatch's."
"Let's go." Anastasia yelled, "Before they come back." And she already started running away after Cyrus had untied her.
. . . .
"Well this all seems very festive." Cyrus said as they made it to a clearing overlooking a village that had fireworks going off above it.
"He's there." Ella said
"How do you know?" Alice asked
"I used to go there a lot when I lived here it's one of the poorest villages in Wonderland and if I know my brother which I do, the first thing he would do is throw a party." Ella said, "We need to split up it's the best way to find him."
"Are you sure?" Alice asked as Anastasia and Ella were already on their way to the village
"Just do it Alice!" Ella called after her.
. . . .
"Well done back there." Anastasia said
"What are you talking about?" Ella asked
"The Bandersnatch's, I know you hate them especially after what they did to you, what they turned you into." Anastasia said as they walked into a house which the door was open
"Yeah well-" Ella stopped talking when she saw a body of a girl on the floor, "Lizard?"
Ella ran down and crouched next to Lizard checking her pulse, "She's gone." Ella said looking up at Anastasia who was holding up the bottle.
"We got him." Anastasia said with a smirk
"We got him." Ella said back
. . . .
"How can you even be sure that she hasn't run off with the bottle?" Alice said
"Because I was with her." Ella said walking up to Alice as Anastasia held up the bottle.
"Where did you find it?" Alice asked
Ella looked to the floor as Anastasia said, "Your friend the Lizard had it."
"What did you do to her?"
"Nothing! " Anastasia snapped, "She was already dead when I got there."
"She was." Ella said quietly, "Now." She looked up to Anastasia, "Give me my brother."
"As you wish." Anastasia said with a smirk and just as she was about to hand the bottle to Ella she quickly opened the lid and red smoke came flowing out, "Oops."
"Thank God, it's you." Will said as soon as he saw that it was Ella that was in front of him
Ella shook her head and swivelled her finger telling him to turn around and he did, "You've got to be kidding me." He said when he saw the Anastasia was his master,
"mistress mine my Will is thine tell me your wishes three." He said robotically
"Is all of them the same?" Ella asked when she heard the rhyme, "you did that on purpose didn't you?" Ella said looking at Anastasia
"Girls got to have an insurance policy." Anastasia said with a smirk, "Now we need to get the rabbit and get the hell out of this place ."
"I think I'd rather take my chances with the homicidal maniac with the snake stick thanks though." Ella said sarcastically
"No you won't not anymore, if Jafar gets Will then he will have all three genies
"Wait... two genies the bottles what did they look like?" Cyrus asked
"Uh... one looked like an oil lamp... why-why is this important." Anastasia said
"They're... my brothers." Cyrus said quietly
No-no don't say it, don't you say it." Ella said knowing what Alice was going to say
"Then we'll get them back our happy ever after can't just be for us it has to be for all of Wonderland" Alice said
"Well then I guess this is where we part ways." Will said
"Why?" Cyrus asked
"Because I highly doubt this one." Ella said nodding towards Anastasia, "is going to stick around for a fight and I'm not leaving Will again."
"Since when have you known me to give up a fight." Anastasia asked
"Ever since I've known you." Will said turning to face Anastasia, " you love shortcuts no matter who it hearts and now that you have a genie you have the mother of all shortcuts."
"We're staying." Anastasia said walking towards the group
"We are?" Will questioned
"Yeah we are, I have been a terrible queen these people deserve way better than what I gave them. So we are staying and we are fighting. Besides there's five of us Jafar's on his own, he doesn't stand a chance."
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