Ch.1:

I sighed and shifted my Black Cat bag (the anime, not the animal) on my shoulder, it's D-Gray Man pins rattling. The dry and dying grass crunched beneath my feet. Why am I here? I haven't been to this park in years.

Because, I told myself for the twentieth time, you LIKE the park, you needed to get out of that suffocating house, and you know that C.J likes to hang out here. THAT'S precisely why I'm here. …With my long black pig-tails, in a black Loli dress and knee high boots. Mayhap I should've dressed in white. It's broiling out here.

I shifted again, trying to adjust to the weight of the scrying mirror in my bag. I looked down at it, shifting the flap of my bag to do so. Aside from the red glint of the mirror itself, if I focused enough, I could also see the orange haze it gave off.

I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Dren 'Nerd' Reet. Only child, living with mother and stepfather. And, because I suppose we're all friends here, I'll tell you my biggest secret; I can see auras.

A lot of people claim they can, I know that. But a lot of them are these rich, yoga maniacs who eat nothing but celery. I'm poor, I couldn't do a pull up to save my life, and I friggen' love salt.

See, from what I've come to understand, auras are just…clouds, of the emotions put out by a person. A person with a lot of emotions have thick auras, and the icecubes have thin ones. Happy people have bright and cheery auras and the depressed, mentally cracked, and or psychologically damaged ones have dark and sometimes twisted looking auras.

I can tell a lot about a person from their aura. I can see and tell if a person is trustworthy or not at a glance. I can even see a rapist coming a mile away, from the particular cloud patterns of twisted lust, violence, and satisfaction around them. I can see a killer from just as far. The really crazy ones have huge gaps, sometimes even razor sharp cracks in their auras.

So, in case you're all wondering, yes. That is why I listened to C.J and her story of Wonderland. You see, when a person lies, their auras kinda…perculate. They quiver, like Jell-O. I can always catch a person in a lie, and C.J Thourn was neither lying, nor crazy.

But I admit, that guy talking from the mirror was INSANE! Oh bizsnap, the mirror! I looked around the park some more, unable to see where C.J might have gone. I have to give it to her! It seems that I can't use it, and it's rightfully hers anyways!

I spotted some teenage girls on the mat and ran up to them, asking if they'd seen C.J around. They, thank Odin, had seen her walk into the woods not long ago.

I followed their directions, knowing that she must be somewhere in on the other side. Good thing I wore my 'walking' boots!

After a series of ducking, hot-footing, and detangling my long hair from some very grabby trees, I found the edge of the clearing. And there, I saw C.J holding what seemed to be a large animal. But what scared the living daylights out of me was that there was a tall, strange man in black behind her. He grabbed her, pulling her back onto the ground. I heard C.J yell and then…it seemed to get more distant.

Suddenly finding myself jerked from my state of paralysis, I charged forward to the spot I assumed C.J and her assailant were grappling. Except, when I got there, they weren't there. Just a large hole, surrounded by the tall grass.

I stared at the thing, having no idea what the hell to do. God, why didn't Mom let me have a cell phone?! If I'd had one, I coulda called 911!

And then, as I was about to run for help, the hole started to close up. Everything seemed to slow into slow motion. Stared in horror, my choices crystal clear. Either run for help and be too late, or….

I jumped into the hole as it closed behind me.

And then I was falling.

And falling.

And falling.

….

I opened my eyes to see I had somehow landed safe and sound. WTF?! How is it possible to fall down, and come up on the surface?! Unless….

I stood up, "Unless I'm in China! Fudge, I don't know Mandarin!" Or….

I took a step and then, I fell down this…giant hole in the ground. I didn't even see it there. I held my head. "Oh no way in this world." BUT MAYBE IN THIS WORLD.

OH MY JASHIN…I'm in Wonderland.