Hiei In Wonderland

Chapter 1: Strange New Creatures

"Where am I?" Hiei muttered to himself. He looked around the area for any signs of life in the garden.

Then he saw, the most peculiar thing. A white rabbit, looking at a small chain watch every three seconds.

"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I'm going to be late! The queen will have my head for this," the rabbit screamed to himself, not seeming to notice Hiei. He bounced around for a little while. Then he bounced off toward an extremely small doorway. Hiei thought on this odd occurrence for a bit, only to come up with the solution that the rabbit was a demon in disguise.

"Wait!" Hiei called as the rabbit entered the door. The rabbit was now much smaller than he was a few minutes ago. Hiei figured that this was just a trick done by manipulating his spirit energy. "He must be a great fighter," Hiei kept in mind. The rabbit paused for a moment and looked at Hiei. Then he hopped through the small doorway.

"Stop you incessant idiot!" Hiei called out one more time, in an attempt to stop the rabbit from entering the door. But it was too late.

"-Yawn-," the door went.

"What the-, " Hiei responded, sheathing his sword completely, igniting it into a great blue flame of spirit energy.

"Calm down…Calm down…," the door went, about to fall asleep again. "Now, why did you wake me?"

"I want to get through, open up."

The door fell silent. Hiei bent down to see what the door was doing. Sleeping…

"You leave me no choice then," Hiei slashed down on the wall as hard as he could, making his own "door." The door, somehow still asleep, didn't notice a thing. Hiei shrugged and entered into a room with a garden, table, chairs, and teapots.

"Oh we have a guest," a man with a crazy hat told the rabbit and the mole.

"Ok you all have five seconds to start explaining, who you are, where I am and why I am here before I blast you all into oblivion with my hand of the mortal fire technique," said calm and collected Hiei.

Not frightened, the man with the oddly large hat spoke. "How rude of us. Call me the Mad Hatter. And you are the man standing before us, because you entered the room," he said, puzzled by why Hiei would ask such an obvious question.

"What? You're making no sense. I mean how did I get here?"

"Through the door in the wall, of course," the mole replied. "But do sit down. We have more than enough to go around," he pointed to the food and tea."

"That's enough riddles," Hiei exclaimed. He held his sword to the tip of the Mad Hatter's throat. "Tell me how to get out of here or you won't live to drink another sip of tea."

Still not pressured, the Mad Hatter replied, "The queen will know. She rules this place, you know? Ah, I once sung for the queen. How did it go again?"

The mole and the Mad Hatter both sung in chorus, "Twinkle, Twinkle little bat, how we wonder what you're at, up above the world so high, like a-"

It was insanity. There was nothing but singing. Nothing but pain. He couldn't take it anymore. Hiei screamed, calling upon the dragon of the darkness flame. The room was filled with horror.