Authors Note: So I decided to be THAT person who did the Alice in Wonderland Fanfiction. Please don't judge me though. This is going to be multi chaptered and I'm hoping to get maybe 1 chapter up a week but I guess we'll see. ANYWAY... I'm planning on adding in as many Karneval characters as possible. Sorry there's not very much dialogue in this chapter as well but yknow... And with that I guess I should say hope you enjoy and stuff...
It was another boring day of doing nothing in particular and Gareki was beginning to grow rather bored of sitting alone in his room, having absolutely nothing to do. Once or twice he had tried forcing himself to read a book, but it had contained nothing of interest, "what is the point of a book," he thought, "if it contains nothing worth reading?"
So he was considering, in his own mind (as well as he could, for the boredom he felt was making him feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of going for a walk would be worth getting up from his rather comfortable position in his chair, when suddenly a familiar child with white hair and red eyes ran past his door.
There was nothing very remarkable in that, as he assumed the niji was merely playing hide and seek with Tsukumo or the sheep, nor did Gareki think it so very much out of the way to hear the niji call "Karoku? Kaaarokuu!" in a sing song voice. But, when the niji took a watch from his pocket and looked it, and then hurried on, Gareki started to his feet, for it flashed across his mind for not only did the niji not own a watch, but he was once again searching for the man that Gareki was still not entirely sure existed.
Gareki threw on his coat and shoes in a hurry and chased after the child. He had turned around a sharp corner just in time to see the niji jump down a large and rather out of place hole in the middle of the floor.
"NAI?!" Gareki called down into the hole "Are you alright?" When he received no response he jumped down into the dark hole without second thought and without once considering how he was ever going to get out again.
Gareki had found himself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well which made absolutely no sense as he had previously been on an airborne ship. Either the well was very deep or he had been falling incredibly slowly for he had plenty of time to look at his surroundings and reflect on the potentially fatal decision he had made in a split second. First he had tried to look below him so he could give himself a small amount of warning for when he would hit the bottom, but it was too dark to see anything. He then looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were covered with cupboards and bookshelves: here and there he saw maps and pictures hung from strings that weaved between the shelves. "if I hit one of those lines I'll be sliced in half" Gareki thought.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never end? "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by now?" he said aloud. "I wonder if I could hit the centre of the Earth, or if I'll fall right through and come out the other side". As Gareki just realised what he had just said, he scolded himself. "I am NOT turning into an idiot like Yogi!"
Down, down, down. There was nothing to do in this bottomless hole and Gareki soon found himself dozing off when suddenly he found himself lying in a pile of sticks and dry leaves and the fall was over.
Gareki was not the slightest bit hurt and as he sat in the pile for a moment longer, the suspicion that he had died in the fall crept into his mind. Gareki dragged himself to his feet and brushing himself off, he looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before him was a long passage, and the niji was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Gareki like the wind, and was in time to hear the niji mutter to himself, as he turned a corner, "I'm sorry Karoku, I'm going to be late" He was close behind when he turned the corner but the niji was nowhere to be found.
Gareki searched the hall for the niji and he eventually came across a small door, roughly the size of a large book, and wondered if the niji had escaped the hall through there. He kneeled down in front of the door and twisted the miniature knob, it was locked. Gareki stood up and pondered what he should do. Not a moment later, Gareki had driven his foot into the small doorway and sent the miniature door flying. The doorway opened up to a incredibly small passage, similar to the one he had chased the niji in before he disappeared, which then led to a very bright garden. Gareki longed to get out of this dingy hall and into the fresh air. He looked at the doorway; "even if my head fit, there would be not fitting my shoulders in, more or less my waist" he thought to himself.
There was no use waiting by the hole he had caused in the wall, so he decided he would wander around the hall, hoping there would be another, larger, unlocked door for him to escape from this room from. He soon came upon a rather short table with a small cake and a note bearing the words "eat me" upon it. Gareki picked up the cake to inspect it closer. It didn't appear poisonous even though it was a sickly pink colour, he brought it to his nose to smell and he realised it smelled distinctly of the inside of Yogi's room (a strange mixture of honey and strawberries).
Gareki brought the cake to his lips, still a little hesitant to eat it, and took a small bite. It was good. It tasted like the deserts that Tsubaki would occasionally make. Gareki found himself light headed and slightly dizzy, which he assumed to be from the nostalgia of tasting something that reminded him of home, but was soon informed that his light-headedness was caused by him rapidly growing as his head hit the ceiling.
A wave of panic crashed over Gareki as he realised what had just happened. The suspicion that he had died and had been transported to the afterlife grew on him again. "Dammit" he thought "now my foot wouldn't even fit through the doorway" Gareki searched around him once again looking for a way to escape the god awful hallway. Garekilooked into the rafters above him, desperately searching for some kind of window or skylight. His search for an escape proved unsuccessful but instead he came upon a small shelf, almost too conveniently placed in front of his face. On the shelf sat a small bottle (which seemed tiny to Gareki as of his recent growth spurt). The label of the bottle read 'drink me' in dainty little letters. Gareki removed the cork with a pop and smelt the liquid inside, the bottle of strange, clear, liquid was even more suspicious than the cake but Gareki soon came to the conclusion that if the cake had not killed him (although he was most likely already dead) , the strange drink would not either.
Gareki drank the meagre amount of liquid waited. He found the drink to be very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry- tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast).
Gareki had expected to feel light headed and dizzy again but instead, as he shrunk, his head ached like his brain was being crushed by his shrinking skull. After a several minutes of feeling like his head would implode, Gareki found himself to be much smaller than he had been mere moments before. He guessed himself to be roughly eight or nine inches high, definitely small enough to fit through the little doorway.
His journey to the doorway had taken much longer than expected as he had wandered away from the door after he had kicked it off the hinges. Now that he had shrunk to such a small size, the distance between himself and the doorway felt like miles. When Gareki finally reached the doorway, he peeked inside only to be blinded by the bright light shining in from the outside world. As his eyes adjusted to the light, he noticed the door, which had previously been hinged to the walls, lying in large shards on the floor with a rather large, broken, footprint stamped on several of the pieces. Gareki stepped over the pieces of door and continued down the hall, longing for the fresh air. In his life he had grown accustomed to dark and dingy places, always waiting for nightfall to go outside, but since he had been picked up by circus along with Nai, he had found himself spending more time in the light with happy people. Gareki couldn't believe that he had found being outside in the sunlight more preferable than being in the dark, gloomy hallway which his usual self would have found preferable.
As Gareki stepped out into the sunlight, he found himself once again blinded. When his eyes adjusted to the light, he saw that he was at the edge of a rather large and dense forest which contained several species of plants that Gareki had never seen the likes of in his
"NAI!" Gareki called, "Where are you?" Gareki sighed and kicked at the dirt. He knew what he was going to have to do next. "stupid animal" Gareki thought to himself as he set off into the forest in search of the niji.
AN: Sorry it was kinda short but I promise there will be more. CONSTRUCTIVE criticism isappreciated.