I seriously don't know why I didn't upload this.
Arthur in Wonderland
September 14th 2014
Plot by Elise the Writing Desk, Characters by QuinRose; Himaruya Hidekaz
And so today, we're here in the World's Meeting. As usual, Arthur Kirkland, being Europe's Black Sheep, is being cornered by those whom are supposed to be his 'Allies'. Ah, but you know, you can't trust a hamburger-lover-ex-brother, a smiley (yandere) Russian, a guy whom you had conflict in an opium war, and just your annoying flamboyant neighbor.
"So it's decided!" Alfred shouted, noisy as usual, "England is going to pay for our summer vacation!"
Arthur slammed his hands onto the table. "Wait a second! Why me!?"
"Hahaha! Because?" Alfred bluntly and cheerfully replied. "Because you can't cook shit, so China will. Because I'm the hero, so I don't need to pay. Because no one dares to make Russia pay. And because France is currently on strike, so, yeah, dude!" he pats his ex-brother with such power, the older man might break. "We're all dependent on you!"
Arthur wildly looked around, and only in this situation, he noticed Matthew.
"Wh-What about Canada?"
Canada blushed. "Wh-Why do you only remember me at this kind of time..." he teared up.
"Because...because..." Alfred laughed nervously. "Because he internally destroyed me by giving Justin Bieber to me...so...I think...uh, I shouldn't make him mad..."
Just like Busby's Chair is England's secret weapon, apparently, Justin Bieber is Canada's way of scaring America.
"Wait, that's beside the point!" England shook his head again. "I don't see why the bloody hell must I pay for our vacation,"
The Allies, except Arthur, exchanged stares.
"Aiya...If you can't just do such a small thing like that," Yao began with a glint of evil in his eyes, "You can just refuse, aru. I can just do everything—I have villas and I'm good at cooking, so just leave it to me, aru," he grinned, patting his chest. "Owe me just like everyone in this world do, aru!"
"Oui!" Francis smirked. "Unlike you, England, since China is willing to take care of your responsibility, I'd like to cook a feast for us. After all, I'm also a great cook, honhonhonhon~" he smugly laughed with his annoying voice.
Arthur's boiling, but it's not enough, so Alfred decided to fan the fire.
"Hahaha! I see, so you're broke, huh, Liney-face? Why don't you say so? I wouldn't be so forceful about this, dude!"
The British man shivered. "I-I'm not broke!"
"Ufu, well, then, why the refusal, da?" Ivan smiled eerily to Arthur, who flinched and shut his mouth, looking down in fear.
"W-Well then!" everyone smirked, expecting Arthur's prideful attitude to come up at this point. "I'll show you that I'm capable of this! I'm a powerful industry country, paying for our vacation is such a pinch—"
"Alright, aru! I need to buy a new swim trunk~" Yao was the first to eagerly leave.
"Honhonhon~ I'll start packing, au revoir~!" Francis twirled out.
"Thanks, you're the best, dude!" Alfred patted Arthur's back and something cracked as he exited the vicinity.
"I can't wait for our vacation, da~!" Ivan waved to Arthur with a cheerful, satisfied smile while Arthur sulked, feeling really limp. He then turned to Matthew, who laughed nervously.
"B-Best of luck, Mr. England..."
"Aaargh, bloody darn it all,"
~.X.~
Despite being splendidly isolated by his 'nearest' colleagues, Arthur considered himself to have a true friend, which was the Japanese Kiku Honda. Honestly, everyone could just whine and tell him everything and he'd just listen, nodding and sip his tea, saying small thing such; 'Sou, desu ne,' with his gentle, calming voice.
"I can't believe it...I fell into their trap, Kiku," Arthur wept. "Over and over again, I feel so stupid! Just a little game on my pride, and that's all it takes to attack me," he hid his face behind the seating pillow.
Kiku hummed, sipped his tea and listened to his friend's sobs, before smiling gently. "You know, Mr. Kirkland, your tsundere is also the reason you got into the Splendid Isolation,"
Arthur perked and turned to the asian with a confused look, but Kiku continued. "There aren't many people like me, I understand tsundere, and I'm quite fond of these types of people. But if you keep being like this, you'll keep having troublesome events in the future,"
"I see," Arthur hummed, frowning. "So...how do you suppose I change my way, then?"
"Well, personally, I think your personality is cute, so I'm not sure if I want you to change,"
"Wh-What!?"
"Hehe," Kiku chuckled, enjoying to see the British man flustered beyond anything. "Well, I think you can tone it down. The reason one is so prideful is because one doesn't want to appear weak,"
Arthur is amazed by Kiku's attentiveness.
"Is that so?"
"Then, you should be more confident. You should see your good points more than usual, and accept that there are things you're good at, and let go the pride you have over the things you're not good at,"
Arthur furrowed all of his eyebrows, crossing his arms. "Hmm...Things I'm not good at..." he began to think slowly, and he was about to quickly laugh about it, Kiku quickly cut him off.
"You're the worst cook, a sore loser, meanie pirate, have no friends, awkward, and have no social skills,"
Stab, stab, stab, stab...
"You have so many eyebrows, you're quite nuts when you talk to no one, and you're the worst cook,"
"You've mentioned that!"
"What? Which one...? Ah, yes, have I mentioned that you're the worst cook, Mr. Kirkland?"
Arthur was too broken-hearted to say yes, but Kiku didn't take long to care for that, and continued on with Arthur's flaws. Each words stab the blonde guy right in the heart. A torrent of ice shuriken. Mostly, Arthur began to question if Kiku was rubbing the fact that he's the worst cook on purpose. He's afraid to ask, since Kiku might just answer with a blunt 'absolutely yes'. He couldn't take more damage.
As Kiku finished pointing out all of Arthur's flaws, the blonde was already breaking into tears, crying into the pillow.
"Ugh...uhh..." he sobbed. "Then...what on the bleeding earth do I have!? I don't have any good points, for Merlin's pants!"
Kiku laughed nervously as Arthur continued to wept, he felt a bit guilty about what he's said, but once Kiku didn't refrain from speaking, there was unleashed the Myriad Truth. He hummed silently, trying to find a way to cheer his friend, and remembered something.
"Well," Kiku began, "I think I'm quite fond of your fairy tales, Mr. Kirkland,"
Arthur sniffed, but he perked up a little. Kiku continued.
"You have a lot of great writers that inspired the whole world. I for one am a big fan of your King of Nonsense,"
"You mean Lewis Carroll," Arthur said, blinking his tears. "I suppose...that's kind of true. We're countries influenced with Mystical Forces..."
"My country has made a lot of adaptation from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you see," Kiku said, and went to take a list on his kotatsu. "We have Deadman Wonderland, Pandora Hearts, Are you Alice?, Boy Alice in Wonderland, and Alice in the Country Series, and many more..."
"Wow," Arthur's eyes widened as he scanned the list. "I wonder if I can go to Wonderland, though. I mean, maybe if I live in a story adaptation, I can learn something..."
"Ah, that's a great idea," Kiku quickly agreed. "If you can go to meet the characters that were adapted from the King of Nonsense, you might give up on your pride, because it's useless to play logic with nonsense,"
"Hmph, but it's impossible," Arthur dropped his back to the tatami.
"Actually, I can do it for you,"
BANG! Arthur sat up so fast that his head hit the kotatsu.
"Eh?"
"I just invented this Virtualizer, based on Sword Art Online," Kiku showed off something similar with Oculus Rift, looking quite unsure. "This equipment will allow you to venture into any manga, games or serials limited to the manga in my country, though,"
"Oh what on bleeding earth!" Arthur gasped and snatched the object, staring at it in amaze. "Whoa! Let's do this, Kiku!" he said to Kiku, eyes gleaming.
"Uh, sure, so which story would you like to go?"
"Can you give the description of each story?"
"Well," Kiku cleared his throat. "Pandora Heart isn't solely based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the characters are, and it plays so much logic, so I doubt you'd tone down your tsundere,"
"Well then, next,"
"I think the closest stories to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will be Are You Alice? And Alice in the Country Series...but the latter is a dating sims game,"
"Then, I'm going for Are You Alice?," he grinned and put on the Virtualizer eagerly. Kiku frowned in worry, but began to set up the destination. Right before he sent the blonde's mind to the story, Arthur turned to Kiku and asked;
"By the way, what is tsundere?"
~.X.~
There are a lot of crazy things in Wonderland. Everyone brings weapon. Everyone can kill each other at any time. There was no police. It should've been really scary to live there.
But Alice preferred to hold down a gun by hand during a gun war between Ace the Knight and Peter White the Prime Minister Rabbit...rather than...
"...Spinning Cup Roller Coaster!" Gowland announced his newest creation proudly, and the cover was pulled off revealing what looked like a mile-long roller-coaster track, with a spinning tea ride waiting at the bottom of the ride.
Alice laughed. "Haha, you know what, I'm on my period, so—"
"Don't be shy, Alice~!" Boris Airay the Cheshire Cat cheerfully dragged the dark blonde towards the ride. "It's gonna be a hella fun! I mean, we're going in the speed of light while spinning in a tea cup!"
Alice grabbed the nearest lampost. "MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY,"
"Come on!" Gowland also began to tug the younger female. "It's going to be a test ride, but I'm sure it'll be safe!"
"NO!" Alice screamed, holding onto the lampost for dear life. "TEST RIDE IS NOT SAFE. TEST RIDE IS BAD. BAD TEST RIDE."
However, what could a thin female do against the force of two males whose daily lives involved guns and battles? Soon, Alice found herself strapped in the ride—in the damn tea cup, crying for dear life while Boris was laughing and telling her that 'Ish all gonna be a-okay!'.
"Alright, have fun, birds!" Gowland waved as he pulled the lever, and Alice gasped, flinching in fright as the ride began.
...Neither of them in the spinning cup would expect the horrifying surprise that was about to happen.
And Arthur, still forming into the appropriate wavelength, how could he know what would hit him?
In the real world, Kiku narrowed his eyes as he tried to process the mistake he had made. Pochi barked at where Arthur just disappeared, and the Asian man hummed in confuse.
"Pochi-kun, I don't think this is the 'Are You Alice?' manga."
"Woof?"
"...Let alone that, this isn't even a manga. I think I just sent Mr. Kirkland into a game."
To be continued...
