Kya sat on the operating table, watching each person dressed in scrubs preparing to cut her open. The operating room was bone chilling cold as the light above shined in Kya's eyes. She looked over to the red headed to her left and clutched his gloved hand tightly. Grell had made a promise to stay by her side during the whole procedure. He placed a kiss on her hand and smiled down at her as different types of fluids and medicines flowed through her veins.
As her vision began to blur, Kya thought she saw something rather questionably appear on Grell's head. It almost looked like...no wait, it was, red bunny ears! Grell had sprouted red bunny ears out of no where! A confused, and slightly horrified, Kya looked around to see if anybody else had noticed, only to find that everyone in scrubs had disappeared.
The red rabbit gave Kya a quick wink then hopped out of the door. Kya crawled off of the operating table and ran out the door after pulling the IVs and wires out of her arm. The hallway seemed to stretch longer and longer as she chased after the hopping reaper.
"Grell, wait up!"
Her voice carried on without reaching his ears. Grell hopped his way outside and jumped down into what looked like a giant rabbit hole int the ground. The last thing Kya saw were his red rabbit ears being engulfed by the ground. She wasted no time jumped in after him.
The farther Kya fell, the more she realized that this probably wasn't an ordinary rabbit hole that she jumped into. As she continued to fall deeper and deeper, many types of unique clocks surrounded her. The sounds of off key ticking echoed and bounced off of the walls. Kya reached out to touch one as it soared beside her, almost as if it was standing in place. Suddenly, the bottom of the hole appeared below her and painlessly broke her fall.
Kya looked at her surrounds to see that she was now in a room that consisted of nothing but a tiny, little door and a kitchen table set with different types of cakes sitting atop. Before she could get up, she thought she might of saw a little red dot moving across the floor. With a closer look, she could see that the tiny dot was actually a tiny Grell!
The tiny Grell ran right past Kya without saying a word and went right through the tiny door. Kya tried to go after him, but realized the door was obviously too small for her to go through. She sat back with a huff.
"How am I supposed to follow you now?" She asked herself.
"Why the cake of course!" an answer blared from behind. The voice it belonged to almost sounded like Simm's.
Kya turned around to see that it was indeed Simm! Though she was dressed rather questionably. Not only was she wearing a fancy, purple dress, something she never would wear, but she had what looked like mouse ear on top of her head and a tail to match twitching behind her. She was sitting legged on the table with the cakes surrounding her.
Puzzled, Kya walked up to the tabled and looked at Simm the mouse.
"Oh do try some, and with a cup of tea!"
Simm stuffed a bite of cake into her her mouth, getting frosting all over her face. Kya looked around at just how many of the sweets there were.
"You don't like eating all of this sugar, Simm, why are there so many?" She asked.
The mouse merely giggled, with crumbs of the cake flying out of her mouth.
"Why there for you, Alice!" was her answer, "We've been waiting for you!"
Kya raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Alice? Who's Alice? "
Before she could get her answer, she eyed a beautifully decorated cake that was labeled with a tag with the words 'eat me' printed upon it. Simm then layed across the table and handed a piece of it to her.
"I saved this one just for you Alice! Go on, eat it!"
Kya couldn't help but smile at her friend as took the plate from her friend. She then took a small bit and stuck it into her mouth. However, she felt a thick heaviness in her chest before she could even taste the cake and began to cough. This made Simm frown.
"What's the matter, don't you like it?"
Kya pounded at her chest to get the coughing to stop. When it finally subsided, she noticed two things that were quite off. Not only was her hospital gown gone, but she was now in a frilly blue dress with black and whie stripped stocking sliding up her legs. But that wasn't even the strangest thing, no. Kya looked up and realized she had completely shrunk down, almost to the size of a marble.
Simm, who was now the size of a skyscraper compared to Kya, had begun to cry giant, heavy ears.
"And after all the trouble I went to make it for you!"
Her tears quickly flooded the floor as Kya struggled to stay afloat. "No Simm! The cake was good I promise!"
This only made the mouse cry even harder, her tears swallowing the room in a violent flood.
"And now I'm too big to be your friend!"
Kya did her best to avoid being splashed upon by her friend's enormous tears, but to no avail. Before the watery prison could pull her under, she noticed a glass object floating beside her that she had never seen before. She plucked it from the water to see it was a jug of sparkling liquid with another tag with the words 'drink me' printed upon it. Hoping for the same results as before, Kya threw it it at the whipping giant mouse.
"HERE, DRINK THIS!" she called out. "IT'S TINY AND PRETTY!"
These words alone perked Simm up and she ceased her crying. She caught the tiny jug with one hand, being careful not to break it.
"Oooh, so sparkly!"
She drank the liquid in one small drop. As she did, she completely vanished from sight.
A panicked Kya kicked her legs to swim to the top as a wave of water swallowed her up and forced her under. She then felt a pair of hands grab her from above and hoist her from out of the water to a wooden surface. She sputtered and coughed out the water trapped within her lugs and opened her stinging eyes to see that she and Simm were sitting in a small roe boat.
"YOU DID IT ALICE!" the mouse exclaimed.
Kya sat up and noticed that the room had completely disappeared. Instead, everything had been replaced by nothing but water and an open sky. "
Where are we now?"
Simm had started rowing the boat through the endless lake of salty water.
"Why, where in Wonderland of course! Where else would we be?" It was as if the thought had never come across her.
Kya looked at her surrounding with the feeling of awe and confusion, and a little bit of fear.
"Wonderland?"
As she wondered out loud, she heard the sound of splashing coming from behind her. Turning towards the sound, she gasped as she saw none other than Grell running across the water, going right past them without so much as a glance.
"GRELL!" Kya called out as she stood up from the boat. Again, the sound didn't reach his fuzzy red ears. Simm the mouse looked backed at Grell with a frown.
"How do you know the red rabbit, Alice?" she asked.
The question made Kya blush. She stuttered without taking her eyes off of Grell.
"H-H-He's my boyfriend."
Simm shot up as a great gasp of air sucked into her lugs and echoed throughout the room in utter shock
"The red rabbit is a HE and not a SHE?! It's so obvious how could I not see!"
Kya ignored her friend's sudden realization and went to chase after Grell, who was now playfully skating across the water as if it were a frozen ice rink. However, as soon as she stepped out of the boat, she sank right back into the water and was once again pulled under. Simm gasped once again.
"Oh no, I've lost Alice!" she panicked. "What on earth would I tell the palace?!"
The sky above disappeared as Kya sank further into the watery abyss. She desperately reached out her hand hoping to catch on to something, anything that could pull her back to shore. Though she didn't really expect to catch hold anything, something slipped into her hand and pulled her close. Kya opened her eyes to see it was none other than Grell, holding both of her hands. He guided her back to the top with the blue sky opening back up to her vision. Before she could wonder where he was taking her, the red rabbit gave Kya another wink and vanished, out of sight.
As the rabbit disappeared, Kya floated to the top and took in a large gasps of air to fill her lungs. She looked around to see that she was no longer in an endless ocean, but a standard sized swimming pool. She swam to the edge and pulled herself out.
"What is this place?" she wondered out loud.
An unexpected voice answered, "It's none other than a lake of sorrow."
Kya looked over to see the last person she would expect. Sebastian, sitting on a rather large mushroom. Something else that didn't escape Kya's notice was that his lower half was that of large caterpillar. Not that these oddities bothered anymore anyway. He put the stem of a hooka into his lips and inhaled the vapor.
Kya walked over to the caterpillar as she wiped the water from her face. "L-Lake of sorrow?"
Sebastian the caterpillar exhaled the red vapor without so much as passing her a glance. "It is made of tears is it not? Yours perhaps?"
Kya looked back at the pool. "M-My tears?"
"It is clear to see that you've been through more than your fair share of hardships."
Sebastian put the stem of the hooka back to his smirking mouth as a door appeared beside the mushroom he was laying on. The door flew open with nothing but darkness leading to the other side. Curiosity took over Kya once again as she approached the door and looked at the other side before glancing back at the caterpillar. "
..Do you know where this door leads to?" she asked.
Sebastian let the smoke in his lungs flow into her face as he spoke. "Who can say, I've never left this spot."
Kya, growing annoyed, coughed out the second hand smoke and waved her hand to prevent herself from breathing in any more. As the smoke dissipated from her eyes, she saw two little creatures approaching the door. She then realized they were two little babies, crawling into the door. Both babies had what looked like red tuffs of hair planted on their little leads and piercing green/ yellow like eyes. They babbled their baby talk as they crawled their way through the door.
"Hey, you shouldn't go in there!"
Kya ran through the door and after the babies with the darkness of the other side now surrounding her. Sebastian looked back at her with a chuckle.
"Best of luck to you then, Alice.."
Kya continued to follow after the two babies but slowed down as a dimly lit room appeared in front of them. She watched as the babies crawled over to a woman who was sitting down by a burning fireplace. The woman stirred into a kettle that burned above the fire place with a large wooden spoon. She looked over with a small smile as she saw the babies crawling towards her. As Kya walked into the room, she heard a small explosion of a childlike giggle coming from behind her.
"There you two are!" The voice exclaimed.
Kya turned around to see a little girl, dressed in rather fancy robes, sitting upon a wooden thrown that was far too big for her small size. Her hair was jet black and sat against her pale yet beautiful features, almost like Sebastian...
"Who are you?" Kya asked.
The little girl giggled once again excitedly kicked her little feet.
"I am the duchess!" She then pointed over to the woman stirring in the kettle and the two red headed babies beside her. "And she's my cook, and those two are my cousins!"
The cook gave a quick wave to Kya before giving cookies to each of the babies. Kya gave a frown as she turned towards the cook.
"Are they your children?" She asked. The cook shook her head.
"I'm afraid their mother has abandoned them."
Kya watched as the babies happily munched on their cookies given to them. "I'm just glad they found a place to stay.."
The cook smiled. "As am I.."
Her smile along with the duchess' vanished as a the sound of a cathedral bell echoed throughout the city, making the little duchess squeak out an 'uh oh.'
Kya frantically looked around to see what invoked their panic. "What is it?!"
The cook spoke without turning her attention away from the sound. "You are new here aren't you Alice? The king and queen of hearts are about to but someone on trial."
"A trial?! For what crime?!" Kya gasped.
The duchess added, "The king and queen kill mommies who abandoned their babies since they lost hers.."
A mixture of rage and panic washed over Kya. "That's not right! I have to stop them!" With that, Kya headed out the door and into a rather dark forest with the castle in sight, off in the distance. The little duchess excitedly waved her arm at Kya as she once again disappeared.
"BYE BYE ALICE!"
The forest grew darker and quieter the farther Kya walked. No patch of sunlight, no gust of wind, no sound of any forest creature scurrying along in the woods, just a dark empty trail waiting ahead of her.
By this point, Kya's rage had begun to die down, as well as her running as she wined down to catch her breath. It was then that a dark chuckle broke through the thick trees and echoed throughout the forest. Kya's limbs clenched up and froze as the maniacal sounding laugh reached her ears. She looked around desperately to find the owner of the voice when it suddenly spoke up.
"My my Alice, you look lost."
Then there he was, appearing out of thin air, sitting cross-legged in the nearest tree. "You could use some help."
Though he had the ears and the twitching tail of a cat, he had the face and figure of a well-built man. His red hair was spiked upward, giving the allusion of burning fire, his golden eyes sharp enough to pierce right through Kya's soul. Judging by his attire it was apparent that he enjoyed a good card trick as well as next magician, for diamonds, clubs, hearts and aces were patched along his rather feminine outfit. This was confirmed as he shuffled a deck of cards in his clawed hands. What struck a cord with Kya the most was the wicked grin that split across his face.
Kya brought herself out of her trance and took a couple steps back. "Lost, but I didn't even know where I was going from the start." She took her gaze off of the mysterious feline as her thoughts came to a certain rabbit. "I'm just looking for Grell."
The thick sound of shuffling cards shattered the silence of her left ear as the cat suddenly appeared at her side. "So, it is the red rabbit you seek?" He asked, bringing his hands together and making the deck disappear. "Why would you want to follow him?" Kya blushed at his question.
"He's my boyfriend, plus he said he would always stay with me." Before Kya could take two steps towards the castle, the sly cat appeared in front of her, blocking her way. "And you're sure you know where you're going?"
Kya sighed. "No. But then again life can be like that, you never know where you're going until you get there."
The cat's normal grin grew even wide, as if he were aroused by her answer. "And that's the most important rule of wonderland!"
And just like that, the cat vanished with a puff of red smoke. The only thing left in his place was a joker card from his desk, with none other than a leaping jester drawn on the front.