The night was soon fading over Wondertropolis, waking the gwormies and tuttle birds all over the city. I was hidden in the shadows of the allys as people slowly started to scuttle across the streets to get to their jobs. Their heads were hanging in shame of what their once gleaming city came to. In the time of Queen Gennevieve, there was order in the city and everything was peaceful. Now it was all to shambles now that her evil big sister Redd has taken over the queendom. She had killed the rest of the Heart family, but rumors of Princess Alyss Heart returning awoke some of us in the city and motivated us even more for fighting of the Alyssians. I was only 18, but I had been trained by my father: an old guardsman of the castle when the real Queen was alive. He was now in the Crystal Mines for fighting against Redd and her card army. My name is Gennevieve Spade, named after the queen. I used to be apart of the Spades Family because my aunt, the Lady of Spades, was going to adopt me into their riches and power. They found power in me, and was a great cannidate for ruling the Spades family. I had refused it when the day came when she tried to. It was Redd's command. I ran away and was living in the darkness of the city I once called home.
I snuck across the streets into another dark ally where I usally met up with an Alyssian and get the updates on the tactics of their moves against Redd. I stood in a doorway with the door boarded up. I knocked twice and the door opened. There was a rook and a knight along with a soldier of the old Millinery. I saluted shortly and we got right down to buisness.
"The rumors are true. After 13 years, the Princess had returned," the rook said jumping around with joy. He was shushed by the Milliner and he shook my hand.
"We will need all of the people we can get back at the camp. We need to get training done with those who do not have a clue on what theyre doing and if needed, being instructed by Hatter Madigan," he said handing me a sword and a cloak to conceal me from whomever was watching me. All of the time they had been talking and having a small explosion of their happy emotions about the princess coming back, I had a smile across my face. I knew how to fight. I would be able to meet the best Milliner in Wonderland. And the best thing, I would be able to meet the Princess once again. It was a long time since I had seem her. I was only a coulple of years younger than her, and I was just a lillte tot at her birthday party 13 years ago. I watched as the rook, Milliner, and knight snuck out the door in front of me. I followed behind them with quickly and we snuck through the allies and empty buildings til we reached the Whispering Woods. On the way there, I could see dead bodies of chessmen and Milliners scattered all over the place with rips in their chests from something that looked like a cat. The rook looked the other way in disgust while the other two just looked forward not paying attention to the blood scenes around them. We seemed to be lost in the woods, and it added to the creppyness when I realized that the flowers werent speaking, or even a little hum. Out of the corner of my eye, i saw a quick flash of light. What was it? The Milliner and the rook stood in front of what looked like a small clearing. They whispered something and all of a sudden Milliners appeared patrolling what looked like a small camp filled with chessmen and milliners and random Alyssians that ranged of ages. The knight offered a hand to take me around the camp but someone caught my eye: Princess Alyss walking into a camp. She looked so much like her mom, but she didnt have a glow just like the rest of Wanderlanders.
The knight brought me around the camp like a maze. First was the food supply and sleeping areas. They all seemed so very low on both. From the glances on what I saw on he outside, there werent as many Alyssians as I thought there were. Then he brought me to the booth where they took account of the new Alyssians or the dead ones. They took in my name and some of my background, but they seemed quiet at the mention of the name of Gennevieve. I looked around at the papers to see more casualties then the number of Alyssians they had left. It had amazed me. There had to be something we could do to stop Redd making her new weapons, spys and warriors.
All of a sudden there was something that had tore down half of the tent where I was at. All I could see was a giant cat that had the structure of a overgrown man. All around me I could hear people scream "The Cat!" and I auomatically pulled my new sword out. This was the first official time that I had fought in a fight that wasnt a body bag filled with toy gwormies. I had no idea what I was getting into.
