Wet & Wild {open, espec to mice&small characters}

[Gadget]

It was a blazing hot day, just right for a day in the pool. But swimming in a pool with humans was a good for a mouse to be drowned. So, Gadget headed instead for the fountain.

This hotel had a huge fountain with jets and cascades and multiple levels. To one of her size, it was like a whole water park.

She spread out a rodent-sized towel and tested the water with one toe.

<<To get a look at Gadget's beach outfit, check out the Gadget Goes Hawaiian episode of Rescue Rangers>>

[Alice Liddell]

Alice Liddell dully sighed as she paced the grounds of the Grand Floridian.. She had probably lapped the hotel resort about five times out of sheer boredom. Nothing sparked any interest for her. Just guests checking in, checking out, or running around the recreational floors.. Alice had probably taken the elevator (what an odd sort of lift it was!) about ten times. Yes, she had paced every floor, even the hallways for the rooms. But they were vacantly absent.

Slosh, slosh.. She arrived at pond. They were nothing like the ponds by the local church in Oxford.. Plants did not embroid the lining, bees and insects did not have lily pads to rest on. And the people were playing in them..

Splash! A big wave hurtled over Alice as she was sent off her feet onto the hard concrete, wet floor... "Goodness gracious! Everybody here is drenched! I certainly ought to be careful if I don't want to wash this old bag again!" She gestured to her now drenched blue dress and white apron.

A water fountain laid somewhere not as conjested with running crowds of families.. No one was sitting.. She could dry herself out here for the time being, perhaps. With a sour face she made her way over to the fountain, idly sitting. She sighed again, but not in that content manner. Another dull day she had to endure..

Oh! Am I sitting on something?!

[Gadget]

<<Bwa-ha-ha-haa! Did you just sit on me?>>

Gadget was looking at the water when the sun was suddenly blotted out by a cloud. No, it wasn't a cloud, it was a little girl. Only, to a mouse, she was pretty big.

Before Gadget knew what was happening, she was buried under a mountain of blue. "Yikes!" she squeaked. "Hey, watch out up there!"

But could her tiny voice even be heard above the rushing waters of the fountain?

[Alice Liddell]

[Mmm-hmm. xD]

Squeak Squeak! Alice quickly plopped herself on her tiny feet, then proceeded to smoothing her blue dress. It was growing rather tattered and wrinkly. Her black bow was falling down over her curious wide eyes. She was much too disoriented to walk among the grounds of a grand resort..

"Goodness! What was that noise?" she asked herself, staring at her sitting spot. Small scraps of debris, some now abundant in pieces, just laid there by the fountain. I ought to watch where I'm sitting next time! She reminded herself, rolling her eyes in annoyance. It would be a curious mystery if she finally followed her own advice.. It'd never occur, especially in her many states of curiosity..

"OH! A mouse!" she screeched, pointing a finger of accusation toward the small-tailed creature. She was just as tiny as the small, dopey little Doormouse that lived in a teapot. I just sat on a mouse!! She told herself with eyes taken aback. What have I done?!

[Gadget]

Gadget felt flat as a pancake as the air whooshed out of her lungs. At least the human girl finally spotted her and moved.

The mouse staggered to her feet, feeling for broken bones.

"I'm sorry," she squeaked without a hint of sarcasm, "was I in your way?"

She was just babbling to fill the awkward silence. What do you say to someone who sits on you?

[Alice Liddell]

Due to her sheer fright, Alice had probably jumped away from the mouse at about seven feet. But with that untamed curiosity of hers, her blue eyes were wide enough to look at the tiny rat-tailed creature. It donned on purple clothes. It had long flowy, rather attractive lockes of hair, just like Alice. And.. were those glasses above her forehead?

And it talked, too! "Don't tell me you came out of a tea pot, too..." she stated with a cold tone. Why was she talking with this mouse when she was already frightening herself? Maybe if she brought up the subject of Dinah, the clothed creature might scurry away.. Alice was never afraid of such creatures. Infact, she adored little rodents, whether they were filthy or not. But a talking one was a queer sort any child could find in her head, not out of it.

"No, infact, I was just being ignorant of my surroundings.." she apologized with a sincere tone. "But creatures your size ought to be cautious of where you sit..."

[Kenai]

[Mind if I join?]

Kenai held his gaze for a long moment with a fiery look, but when the young girl and the mouse made their apologies known, relief washed over him instantly.

“Are you all right?” Kenai asked the mouse, and after a puzzled blink he laughed embarrassedly, not intending to mock; rather, to express his sympathy. “That must have hurt." He rubbed the back of his neck, frowning.

He remembered the blond child and turned to face her. "Um, how is it you can talk to animals?" he asked. Did the Great Spirits bestow such an ability upon her? As he awaited their replies, he could only stop to think...

He wrinkled his nose.

What on Earth was a teapot?

[Alice Liddell]

A young, dark-toned man approached them.. just as uninvited as Alice intruded in. Taking this into note she realized how rude she was for interrupting the poor talking mouse from a time of respite. She couldn't recall to ever conversing with the man before, but he really needed a trim for his hair.. It was a poor habit to judge in such a way, but most of her judgments were always critical. He probably ought to alter his wardrobe just as well.

He too was speaking to the mouse just as well! He even dared to laugh! Alice could not help but take a slight offense in this. Was he mocking the child for her slip? "Mind you, I always talk to animals, whether they can talk or not," she affirmed with a stately tone. Everyday by the lake near the Oxford church, she would chatter and babble to Dinah. She only understood her, yet it was such a shame the cat couldn't respond..

"You might want to ask why that is talking to me," she corrected, pointing a finger, not an acute one, at the tailed talking creature.

[Gadget]

"Don't tell me you came out of a tea pot, too..."

"Huh?" What was the girl talking about? Gadget hated tea. "Um, no, I came from New York." She brushed herself off and checked for broken bones.

"But creatures your size ought to be cautious of where you sit..."

Golly, that wasn't very nice. "My size? I'm not the one who sat on an innocent bystander. Or sitter, in this case."

Before the mouse could continue the odd conversation, a young Eskimo came over to see if she was all right. Well, at least he cared if she got squashed.

"Um, how is it you can talk to animals?"
"I always talk to animals, whether they can talk or not"
"You might want to ask why that is talking to me"

They were talking about her as if she was a...a thing of some sort.

"Hey, you two. I happen to be somebody, you know. Don't talk about me like I'm not here."

Hands on hips, Gadget was getting a little ticked off.