AUTHORS NOTE: Hey!! Guess what!! This is Mel AND Lauren here! See, Lauren's at my house so yeah. Um, this is a story from us that we've actually be working on. This story is dedicated to TouchMyMafia seeing as it was their photoshoot called 'Death Note in Wonderland' that gave us the idea for this story.
This is our first 'serious' story, but don't worry, it's still awesome and funny. Just be nice? D8
DISCLAIMER: We do not own Death Note, WE PWN IT!
Joking guys. But really :l Oh and no albino's were meant to be offended in this. We're just being silly. Don't kill us! Just think...you have white hair like Near!!!
:D
Characters in this chapter:
Alice - Mello (He doesn't particularly wear the dress, but if you want him to...) *wiggles eyebrows*
White Rabbit - Near
Doorknob/Computer voice thing - L (He also plays another character as the story goes along...you know how he has aliases? Yeah that wasn't intended until nows)
Warning!!!! Erm, there's a bit of profane language in this...Mello being Mello and all...
BEYOND WONDERLAND
Chapter One - Questionable Sanity
The heat wave slammed through Wammy's, every air conditioner was working in overdrive until the stupid thing decided to go on strike.
At the worst possible moment too because the heat wave had just reached its peak at 49 degrees C and still rising, making it hard for some leather-clad students to work, hell it was hard to even concentrate!
Mello's iron will for study was being sapped of strength with each moment they spent in class; his essay paper was lying forgotten on the desk while he stared out the window.
He was currently holding a mental debate on whether or not a cold drink would be worth the effort to acquire one to get up from his seat when he spotted something very out of the ordinary.
Moving through the shimmering bands of heat was a solid looking smudge of white, on closer inspection it revealed itself to be a very unbothered (from the heat you see) Near, sporting a pair of very long, very white (very cute!!!) pair of rabbit ears and being piggy-backed by Agent Rester.
Peering even closer at the unusual spectacle a flash of silver caught his hawk like attention.
It was a pocket watch.
That was all Mello's curiosity could take, barely excusing himself from the class he quickly exited the school building and ran into the expansive, perfectly manicured gardens surrounding Wammy's House.
"Please hurry up Commander Rester, I don't want to be late" He heard Near say in his dry monotone.
Late? Mello thought, late for what? Since when does Near go places?
Managing a run in the intense heat, Mello tore after them through the abandoned gardens as fast as his body would let him; after all, it wasn't hard to spot a white-clad albino child with rabbit ears amongst the greenery.
He arrived at an over-grown hedge just in time to spot a pale, pyjama clad leg disappear into a hole at the base of the shrub.
It was an odd sized hole; too big for an animal, too small for garden maintenance, but just right for a child to slip through.
Questioning his sanity and gritting his teeth Mello crawled into the constricting space, mentally killing Near for wreaking his beloved leather with dirt. As he wriggled and squirmed deeper and deeper underground Mello began to wonder just how far down this tunnel went, it was getting hot (hotter that is) and very claustrophobic, deciding to give up on following Near, Mello started backwards.
And fell down an enormous pit.
Strangely calm about falling to his doom, or so he thought, Mello chewed his way through a bar of chocolate watching in fascination as objects of every sort fell with him, or below him.
Peering into the depths he began to make out a sort of end to the tunnel, the 'bottom' tapering off to a thin tube and funnelling the assortment of items to goodness knows where.
Cakes, clocks, cigarettes, roses and even people were sucked off to that unknown destination; Matt however did give him a scare on the way down, but what the hell was Matt doing here in the first place?!
Before he knew what hit him, Mello was being sucked down with everything else and he found himself slowly and peacefully drifting through the tunnel, it was almost enjoyable until he was spat out into a mysterious room and landed on his head. The white clad rabbit Near was on the other side of the room muttering,
"I'm so late" before slipping through a door, Mello could feel the blood rushing to his head so he stood right-side up and strode across the room, placed his hands on the door handle, turned it and-
?!
Locked from the outside? How can that be? Near had just gone through that door!
He must have seen me follow him, thought Mello, and locked the door as he went out, that's the only logical explanation, unless it's just one of those difficult doors... Trying the handle again, Mello met the same unsatisfying 'clunk, clunk' of the door lock. Near you bastard! He was about to lose his temper when a screen appeared on the wall beside the door, an old English L emblazoned and a synthetic voice began to speak. "This is L and a recording, please leave a message after the tone...*ahem* after the tone!...BOOP" "?" Mello narrowed his eyes at the offending machine and reached for the gun that usually hung at his hip, finding it absent Mello contented himself with throwing a punch at the screen. While he did no damage it did elicit a new response. Grinding his teeth for the second time Mello began his search for the elusive key. Mello turned back to the screen. "So where's this key?" He yelled in frustration, cringing at the fact that he was talking to an inanimate object. "I bet Near didn't have to use a key! I bet he just walked right through!" "'The fuck does that have to do with anything?!" There was a long pause. "Where is the damn key?" He repeated. "There's no table behind me!" Mello yelled in frustration. He knew this because he had just been checking for the key in the empty room. There was no table behind him. "But Near just went through it!" "Hunh" He mumbled. Mello was standing at the table and observing both items closely. Which one? Which one? He really couldn't be bothered with this kind of bullcrap and in traditional Mello style, he proceeded to try and kick the door down. *Sheepish smile* Lauren and I had alots of fun with the enter button, didn't we Lauren? . . . . . . . . . . *kicks Lauren* "Hunh?...Oh yeah." - Lauren PLEASE REVIEW!!! It'll make us so happy!
"HEY! There wasn't any call for that sort of thing!" the screen named 'L' responded sulkily "Anyway, if you want to get through the door all you need is the key, really Mello did it not occur to you?"
It hadn't taken him that long to stop searching for the key, for it was an empty room.
"That is because he is an albino." The screen responded bluntly.
"They have powers." The screen replied in almost a whisper. Mello stared at the screen in disbelief.
"On the table behind you." The synthetic voice replied simply.
"Oh but there is." The voice insisted. Sighing in exasperation, Mello turned around and to his surprise the voice was correct.
In front of him, appeared a small glass table, with a simple golden key rested directly in the middle of it. Next to it was a box of sweets and a bottle with some rosy pink liquid in it. Mello walked up to the table eying the box of sweets.
"In the bottle, is a substance that will make you either bigger or smaller. In the box of sweets, the sweets will do the opposite. You need to find the one that will make you smaller. You must find out for yourself which one to use. You are to unlock the door, and go back to the table. Eat the sweets or drink out of the bottle which will minimize your size, then you must go through the smaller door within the door that you currently see."
"Why can't I go through the normal door?"
"Because that isn't a door."
"Near is an albino." The voice replied, as if that were to answer Mello's statement. "If you look at the door, you will notice that there is actually a smaller door; far too small for you to fit through now, which is why you need to become smaller."
"Riiiight," drawled Mello " and why does this have to be so complicated?"
"It's not really; you could have been through the door already if you had taken my advice and not insisted on being so stubborn..."
"HEY! STOP THAT! you're not going to break through you know, the door Near went in is totally..." the voice trailed off, Mello had just knocked down the door and was currently legging it into a long corridor beyond with both the bottle and sweets.
"Just rude, honestly...i wonder where B is-" Sounds of scuffling came through the mike, but Mello was already too far away to hear it.
Yooh liiike?!?!?!!?
So yes, that was the first chapter...But our second attempt to upload this because my laptop is a BUM!!!