WARNING: Before reading this story you must first read Crashing Wonderland for this is it's sequal!! and if you don't, you will be rather confused as to what is going on... so please read my other story first... you can find it under Alice in Wonderland... or my profile page...
Tempest sat up rubbing her head, it hurt pretty bad considering Mitsu had fallen on it. "Where are we?" She asked seeing the lake in front of her.
"Why, your in Neverland!" A bright voice from above her called down. Tempest looked up to see a twelve year old boy staring her straight in the face. She leapt away in surprise, cursing.
"Jesus Christ! Don't get so close to people!" She shouted at him.
"I'm sorry," He said, landing on the ground next to Ayame who had just stood up. "But me and my friends were wondering where you came from." He gestured to the lake and the girls looked over curiously. There, on a large deformed rock in front of a water fall, they saw five mermaids either basking in the sun on top of the rock, or flipping their fins half way still in the water. They were staring at the party crashers with their eyebrows raised. Tempest looked over at the other girls for reassurance.
She blinked rapidly, not beleiving what she was seeing. Nox was helping Ayame up from the ground and Mitsu and Inari stood behind them, staring at the mermaids. Each one of them was about ten years younger. They were also wearing different clothing from before. Previously, they all had worn ninja clothes, tight in the right spots to make it easier for movement but not too revealing at the same time. Now they wore capri cargos with regular T-shirts. Looking down slightly, Tempest also saw that they were all bare-foot. She watched as Inari turned to Peter.
"Mermaids?" She asked, sounding sort of disapointed. The boy looked over at her, a scowl forming on his face.
"What's wrong with mermaids?" The mermaids obviously could not make out what they were saying, or they would have swam over and angrily splashed the girls until they were drenched. The boy knew this, so he glanced quickly at the mermaids to make sure they hadn't heard. "Well?" He asked when he turned back to the girls.
"Nothing's wrong with them," Inari shrugged. "I was just rather it be the evil ones that try to drown you if you get too close, those ones are so cool!" Her eyes gleemed with the thougth and the boy inched slightly away from her.
"Your and odd one, he turned to the other girls, who were smirking and giggling to themselves. The boy cleared his throut to get their attention, which worked, and introduced himself. "I'm Peter Pan!" He took off the small feathered cap on his head, which matched his green tunic and pants, and bowed dramatically. "And who would you be?" The girls introduced themselves, individually this time, and soluted sarcastically come their turn. "Well welcome to Neverland, we are pleased to meet you." Peter said. A sound of sharp tinkling bells reached the girls ears and they glanced around trying to find the source. A small light bounced its way through the air toward them. "Tink!" Peter said excitedly. "This is Tinkerbell you guys," He jutted his thumb at the light. "She's a faerie." Inari snorted.
"You mean a pixie." She muttered under her breath but Peter, not to mension Tinkerbell, heard it anyways. The bell sounds grew sharper and and more staccato like (short). The light, previously yellow, faded into a deep red.
"Uh oh," said Peter, grinning. He whispered to them from behind the back of his right hand and leaned over. "I think you made her angry." Despite his efforts, Tinkerbell heard his comment and attempted to beat those very thoughts out of his head. He swiped at her, playingfully at first, but when she persisted, he became angry as well. "Stop it Tink!" She did stop, but crossed her arms and turned her back on them, sticking her tiny nose into the air. "Leave us alone until you can get a better sense of humor!" He shouted at her and she zoomed away in a furry. On the rock out in the lake, the mermaids had heard Peter's shouting and they giggled to themselves while pointing at Tinkerbell. She spotted them and redirected her destination. Spinning down on them, they laughed harder and dove into the water. The last mermaid gave an extra splash with her fin, soaking Tinkerbell to the bone.
For a moment, she struggled to fly back up but, her wings were too weighed down by the water and she sunk down onto the rock, where she waited, still fuming, for her wings to dry. Mitsu looked after her, devastated by the turn of events for the poor faerie.
"Ohhh!" She cupped her mouth with her hands as she watched the faerie sitting on the rock alone. Below the surface of the water, the mermaids were laughing even harder now, sending air bubbles to burst at the surface. Mitsu rushed toward the water. She intended to swim out to the poor faerie and bring her back to land where the mermaids could no longer harass her.
"No, don't!" Peter shouted to her, but he was too late. She jumped into the water, resurfacing a few moments later. Making circlular motions with her arms, she swam only two feet before she felt the tug on her ankles. Something was pulling her under! It tugged her three feet below the surface before it let go. Mitsu looked down, holding her breath, to see what it was. A scaily dark blue mermaid sneered up at her. Its raiser sharp teeth gleemed from the sun's bent and faint rays. Its eyes were pure black and pupil-less and its fin had a jagged dorsil fin traling from its tailbone to its matching fin. Her hair was a dull black and floated lazily about her head. She hissed suddenly and darted away befoer Mitsu felt someone pulling her back to the surface.
Mitsu felt the tips of her toes leave the water last, but she didn't stop rising. She was a good several feet from the surface, before she was pulled to the left abit and lowered gently to the ground, where the other party crashers were waiting anxiously. She didn't see Peter, so she guessed that he had been the one who pulled her out. "Are you okay?" Ayame asked, placing her hands firmly on Mitsu's shoulders.
"I'm okay," Mitsu said, after coughing up some water. "I think I found those mermaids you were talking about, Inari."
"Those weren't mermaids," Peter said. She turned around to see him scowling at her. "Those are water nymphs. They're very dangerous, so we don't swim at this lake. Only the mermaids can because they have a special pact or something. But even then, the mermaids and nymphs attack eachother sometimes. What were you doing anyway?"
Mitsu seemed lost for words for a moment, Peter's lecture had startled her. "Um... I felt sorry for Tink... I just wanted to help." She whimpered the last frase and Tempest gave her a reassuring hug. Peter smiled, understanding Mitsu's mind set, and placed his hands heroically on his hips.
"Don't worry about Tink, she'll be fine soon. Plus this will count as her punishment for getting violent. You know," He paused thoughtfully. "It might be better for you guys if you could fly, like me!" Peter spun into the air with ease.
"Pfff!" Nox flicked her wrist lazily. "I can do that." Black wings sprouted from her back (she's a dragon remeber!) and wirled into the air, sending the other girls souring backwards from the force.
"I think you should learn Peter's way!" Ayame called up to her. The others agreed and she landed in the middle of them, folding her wings back. They dissapeared without anytrace of being there and Peter landed next to her, a smile widening across his mouth.
"So?" He said to Nox.
"All right fine!" She gave in regretfully. "How do you fly... Peter?" Peter's grin grew even wider.
"First," he said, holding up his index finger. "I want you to meet the lost boys." The girls looked at eachother.
"Lead the way." Ayame nodded when they looked back.
Peter led the girls deep into the forest which had been hidden behind the waterfall. "Gah! More trees!" Ayame muttered to herself. She shoved her hands into her pockets bitterly. Something rattled and her hand hit something hard. She groped it and tugged it out. In her hand sat a small box. It was pink and yellow, reminding her much of Wonderland. Lifting the lid, she peered inside to find eleven cookies, half big, half smaller.
"What's that?" Mitsu asked, peeking over her shoulder.
"Looks like someone sent us a souvenir." Ayame said, holding the box out so she could see the contents better.
"Cookies? They look like the ones Alice ate." Mitsu said, the others heard her and stopped to look. Peter stopped aswell and peeked over Inari's shoulder.
"Where did you get those?" Nox asked.
"I just found them in my pocket." Ayame shrugged.
"There just cookies," Peter said. "What's the big deal?" He leaned around Inari and plucked one from the pile.
"No!" Mitsu shouted. She made to grab the cookie from Peter but knocked the box from Ayame's hands. Peter held the cookie out of her reach and stepped back away from the group. He popped teh small cookie into his mouth, chewed dramatically, and swollowed. The girls stared at him, the box lay forgotten on the ground, waiting for something to happen.
Nothing did. They stood there for no less than five minutes before Nox broke the silence. "Maybe there not the kind Alice ate." Peter looked back at them confused and waiting for an explanation.
"No, I think they just don't work on him cause he's never been to that world." Mitsu said thoughtfully.
"Ya know, I think she's right." Inari said, sounding astonished.
"Why is that such a surprise?!" Mitsu asked, quite aghast.
"Well, you usually aren't." Inari said softly. Mitsu gaped at her angrily.
"That's horrible!" She shouted. "You don't say those kinds of things to people!"
"I'm sorry!" Inari said. Quickly, she dashed behind Nox.
"Hey what?" Nox tried to move out of the way but Inari stopped her. "Don't pull me into this!"
Behind them, Peter was getting Ancy and wanted to know exactly what was going on. Normally he wouldn't have cared, but this sounded interesting.
"What the bloody hell is going on!" He shouted. The girls then spent the next few minutes trying to explain to him what had happened but he didn't seem to get the idea of other worlds.
Not long after that, Peter continued down the path they had been following. He had given up on trying to comprehend the crazy story of a world with talking cats and evil queens and undead girls in white aprons. Personally, if he ever saw a girl get shot and then stand back up again without so much as a stumble, he would a' booked it out of there at top speed.
Soon he stopped in a circle of particularly thick trees with person shaped holes cut into them. "Home sweet Home." Peter said, placing his hands on his hips and letting out a relaxed sigh. He took a deep breath and cupped his hands to his mouth. "BOYS!" He shouted to no one in particular. "COME OUT, WE HAVE GUESTS!" There was a russle in the trees and six boys, around the same age as Peter, dropped to the ground.
"REMOVE YOUR HATS MEN!!" Peter shouted. The boys followed orders and brought their homemade hats to their hearts. "KNEEL!" The boys did as they were told, and Peter introduced each one individually. "Tootles." "Curly." "Nibs." "Slightly." "And the twins." Peter slammed his hands on the back of the two identical boys. "RISE!" He called and the boys did so. "Right," Peter now spoke in a normal voice and the boys relaxed, smiling as if it were all a game.
"The first thing about flying is..." Peter began turning back to the girls. "...to think of a happy thought. Go ahead, think of one," The girls grinned at eachother, showing off their pearly whites. "I have a feeling you all have one," The girls nodded. The sound of soft tinkling bells reached the girl's ears for the second time that day. "Oh Tink!" Peter exclaimed. "Just in time!" He spead up off the ground towards a glinting light above them. In a spontaneous flash of light and angry bells, Peter flipped in the air several times before slamming into a tree and floating airily to the ground. "That hurt Tink," He pouted after picking himself up, now carrying Tinkerbell in both hands. Her light created small rays poking between his fingers. More angry bells sounded as he walked toward the girls still holding Tink captive.
"What was that about?" Inari asked, her right brow raised.
"You'll see," Peter lifted effortlessly from the ground and rose slowly until he was directly above the five demon girls. With slight difficulty, Peter raised Tinkerbell, still clutched in his fists, above his own head and then brought her down, releasing her at the last second in a full tomahawk chop. Sparkly dust flew everywhere, engulfing the girls in a cloud. Tinkerbell wizzed away into a giant tree the girls hadn't noticed before. "Now think of your happy thought!" Peter shouted excitedly. The girls thought and they thought hard. Mitsu was even squinching her face together in extreme concentration. After a few moments, their feet left the ground.