Chapter 2: I meet the Rabbits of Eastern Wonderland

We are now at Eientei, a large old-fashioned mansion hidden deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Numerous rabbits can be seen around the area, either cleaning the rooms, mowing the lawn, fixing several damaged sections of the mansion, tending to the plantation, etc….

BOOM!

Oh? There's an explosion from one of the mansion's rooms. The window of that particular room is opening and… a girl with short black hair, white bunny ears and wearing a pink, frilly nightgown is climbing out of the smoke-filled room.

"TEWI!"

And now there are arrows and bullets flying out of the window as well, which Tewi Inaba, the Lucky Earth Rabbit barely avoid by ducking her head before scurrying off. Another bunny girl with long, light purple hair comes out of the room, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, red tie and a beige skirt. She makes gun shape with her right hand, points at the running Tewi and fires several bullets from her finger. All of these bullets however either miss or hit the surrounding bamboo shoots, leaving Tewi completely unharmed.

The smaller rabbit peeked out from behind a bamboo shoot, "Fu-hu-hu. When will you learn, Reisen? You can't touch me with those dinky bullets-" She paused to hide behind the shoot again, which is later impaled by several arrows. Back at the window, we see a young woman with dark grey eyes, long silver hair, has a large braid on her back, and carries a strange pair of bow and arrow. Her clothing is a red and blue dress, and is covered with constellation patterns and trigrams. She also wears something similar to a nurse's cap. Tewi peeked out again and smirked, "Your aim is getting lousy, master. Are your eyes starting fail you? Is your age finally catching up to you, old hag?"

Eirin Yagokoro, the Brain of the Moon merely smiled, though anybody could see the aura of malice hidden behind it, "Reisen, should you manage to catch that accursed earth rabbit, I promise to cut down your time in "assisting" me in my experiments."

Reisen Udongein Inaba, the Lunatic Moon Rabbit and Eirin's apprentice turned to her shishou in surprise and nearly shouted with joy, "Really Shishou?!" Eirin nodded her head, "Of course, if you can "convince" Tewi to take your place instead…" The moon rabbit caught on and saluted, "Right away, Shishou! Tewi, get back here!" The earth rabbit, having realized how much danger she is in, quickly bolted with Reisen on her tail.

Tewi had seen what the Mad Doctor of the Moon had done to the Reisen and she had absolutely NO intention being the moon rabbit's substitute.

…

After chasing Tewi non-stop for a couple of hours to no avail, Reisen stopped to rest. Breathing hard, she wondered if she could use her madness-inducing eyes to distract Tewi but decided against it. The earth rabbit knew what Reisen's eyes are capable of and had taken care to avoid eye-contact every time she pulls her pranks.

Reisen frowned while deep thought, trying to devise a plan to catch Tewi, not noticing that the earth rabbit is just nearby. Grinning to herself, Tewi slowly crept up towards the moon rabbit with a fun prank in mind when a gap opened just above Reisen's head. A moment later, a young man falls through and lands Reisen.

Tewi fell down in surprise at the sight, before picking herself up and grinned. The earth rabbit has rarely seen young men come to this part of forest, yet another target for both her pranks… and her scams.

…

BLAM

I groaned, "Not again! Where am I now?"

I raised my eyes as I saw nothing but bamboo around me. Am I in some sort of bamboo plantation? I pushed myself up… and felt something soft. Oh no… I reluctantly looked down and confirmed my suspicions.

I'm on top of another girl! AGAIN! Whose idea of practical joke is this? After getting myself off, I immediately noticed that the girl I landed on has… bunny ears? Is there a cosplay event around or something? Or maybe she's also a yokai… maybe I should just leave-

Oh man, I can't! I'm partially responsible for this, so I'll have to make sure she's alright as least.

"Um… Miss? Hey Miss, are you alright?" I sighed in relief, when the girl opened her eyes… They are red. She shows any sign of wanting to eat me and I'm out of her.

Sitting upright, the girl rubbed her head while looking at me with those... pretty… red … eyes… They are red~. He he~ they look like cherries~, juicy, juicy cherries~. I wonder if they taste good~?

"What happened? Who are you? Are you alright?" He he~ you funny, bunny lady! Of course I'm okay~.

"Hai~, my name is Katsuyori Takamune~. Who are you, bunny lady~?"

The bunny girl looked confused and I saw giant sweat drop appear on her head, "B-Bunny lady? Erm.. I'm Reisen." Just like a anime! I'm in an anime! Yay! Is the crow going to be here too~?

"So… how did you get here?" Reisen asked as she stood up and brushed the dirt from her clothes. "I don't know~. I just fell down some weird hole like Alice in Wonderland~. That means I'm Alice and you're the white rabbit I followed~… Wait, I'm a boy so my name can't be Alice… Oh yeah, it's Alvin~."

Reisen sweatdropped again, "What the heck? What is wrong with you? Why are you acting so- Oh! Oh no, Katsuyori-san! You were looking at my eyes, weren't you?"

I nodded my head, swaying from side to side, "Yup~! Your eyes are so pretty~."

"Stop! You can't look anymore!" Reisen turned away from me. I pouted, "Hey! I want look more! Let me look!" I got up and prepared to glomp her.

Reisen shook her head, "No, you can't-AH!"

GLOMP!

I hugged her and try get her to show me her eyes, "C'mon, I wanna see~."

Reisen was shocked, but quickly recovered, "Wha- I said NO! Let me go!"

I shook my head while hanging on her like a monkey on a tree, "I'm not gonna let go, bunny lady~. Not until, you let me see those pretty, pretty eyes~".

It was then I heard some rather loud laughing nearby. Turning to the source, I saw another bunny, this time a little girl with pink fur. That's weird~… I never saw bunny with pink fur before~. But why are her ears white~? Letting go of Reisen, I made my way to the other bunny who is too busy laughing to notice my presence.

GLOMP!

"Ah!" The bunny girl realized too late as I held her securely within my arms and began rubbing my cheek against hers.

"Wha- Tewi!"

So your name is Tewi? Too late little bunny Tewi~! Oh, you're so cute and your face feels so soft~. What about your ears~? O nom nom.

"H-Hey, cut it out! Stop-ah nibbling my ears! R-Reisen, help me! I can't get loose!" Hm? Why are you laughing, bunny lady? By the way… your ears are tasty~. Ah~…

CRUNCH!

"OUCH! I-It hurts! Stop, it hurts! Reisen, help me!" But your ears taste so good~. Hm? What's that red thing-

BANG!

…..

3rd POV

After getting shot in the head by Reisen's danmaku, Alvin fell to the ground unconscious. Reisen blew her finger and merely said, "You owe me one. And you better have Shishou look at that" Tewi nodded her head, wiping her tear-filled eyes while rubbing her bitten ear. "I didn't think this human would be so crazy after looking at your eyes. You should wear sunglasses."

"If I have any." Reisen said while looking at the outsider, Alvin or Katsuyori as he called himself in his madness trance.

"Hey, I think he's hurt." Tewi pointed at the wound on his arm.

Reisen then noticed the wound resembled bite marks and realized that human had been attacked prior to his arrival here. She then decided to bring him back with them to Eientei and let Shishou look at him.

"Wait, you're taking him back with us? After what he did to me- I mean us?" Tewi objected.

"He's hurt and it's technically my fault that he became like that in the first place. Besides, I'd say that's punishment enough for what you did to Shishou and me back in Eientei." Reisen added with smirk.

Tewi pouted but didn't object any further as she followed the moon rabbit back to their home.

…..

Alvin POV

Ow… my head. What a dream. I went to some shrine in the middle of nowhere, fell through a weird hole, landed on a yokai girl, nearly got eaten, fell through another hole, landed on a girl with rabbit ears and… That's weird; I can't remember anything after that. And why do I have hair in my mouth? Oh well, I guess it doesn't- Why can't I move my arms and legs?

It was then I realized that I was strapped on to some sort of operating table… and there is a person with a mask wearing a surgeon's uniform standing beside me.

…

"AAAAAAHHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"

"Ah, you're awake. And if you can scream that loud, then I assume you have recovered completely." The surgeon pushed a button somewhere and the straps automatically came off, allowing me get up.

The "surgeon" undid her mask, revealing a young woman, "My name is Eirin. Please relax, your operation was a success."

Oh… WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT OPERATION?! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!

"The truth is… you are now… a cyborg. The perfect combination of man and machine to combat all of the world's evil!" Eirin said with a serious expression on her face. What the hell. WHAT THE HELL. "Now… shout "Transform" and fulfill your destiny as the protector of this world!"

I nodded my head, "Alright! Hen… Shin-LIKE HELL! There's no way something so manga-ish can ever be true! Stop messing with me, goddamit!"

"Tsk, he's pretty sharp." I turn towards the new voice and saw a strangely familiar rabbit girl in a pink fur- I mean nightgown. Have we met? Why is there a bandage on one of her ears? And why did I think that nightgown was fur?

"I told you it wouldn't work! I don't know how you manage to convince Shishou to go along with it." Oh, and there's the rabbit girl I landed on!

"Oh hey, you're Reisen right?" I asked.

Nodding her head, the red-eyed rabbit girl then asked me, "How do you feel, Katsuyori-san?"

I raised an eyebrow, "Katsuyori? My name is Alvin, Alvin Li. Why did you think that was my name?"

Reisen scratched her head, seemingly reluctant to tell me. However, the other rabbit girl, Tewi said, "You said that was your name when you went crazy." … Wait, what? And why do I know YOUR name?

"Say… what happened to me before I got here? The last thing I can remember is that I landed on Reisen and making sure she was alright?"

Eirin frowned when she heard that, "Landed on? So you are capable of flight?"

"Nope. Actually I fell down a hole that came out of nowhere, and the next thing I knew, I landed on top of Reisen here…" Hearing it out loud makes it sounds like I'm in some Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired anime/manga or something. Definitely not Pandora Hearts though. "By the way… where am I exactly?"

Eirin pinched the bridge of her nose, "So you are an outsider. I'll be blunt, you are currently in Eientei, our home. But to be more specific, you are in Gensokyo, the Land of Fantasy & Illusion, the home of yokai and a paradise for the outcasts of society.

… Don't tell me I really did fall into an Eastern Wonderland, I'd prefer becoming a cyborg to that. Then again, I did get bitten by a yokai earlier. Huh? My arm's been bandaged.

"Reisen saw that you were injured and brought you here. Were you attacked by a yokai prior to your meeting with her?" Eirin asked.

I nodded, "Yeah, I got bit by a yokai girl named Rumia. Thanks for fixing my arm by the way."

Tewi then walked up to me and held up her hand, "Yeah, yeah. Now cough it up."

"Cough what up? Did I eat something of yours?"

"No, you moron! I mean money! You should pay up for your treatment!"

BANG!

And Eirin hits Tewi on the head with a paper fan… Where did she get that anyway?

"Don't mind her, she tends to run her mouth like that all the time." Reisen said to me.

"Okay… By the way, the last thing I remembered before waking up was talking to you… What happened?"

Reisen hesitated for a moment, "Well… you see, my eyes have the power of insanity and since you looked straight at them, you took the full brunt of their effects."

… Yeah right, like I'll go crazy just by looking at those… pretty… red… cherry… eyes~. "Your eyes look so pretty, bunny lady~."

"Huh? Alvin, what's wrong? Why are you- Oh no…" What? There is nothing wrong with me~. "Oh, there's the pretty pink bunny with tasty ears~. I wanna eat them again~."

"Oh no… Not again!" For some reason, cute little Tewi-wewi ran out of the room. Hey wait~. Let me eat your ears~.

…..

3rd POV

As Alvin went chasing Tewi, Eirin sighed as she turned to her student, "He looked straight into your eyes again, didn't he?" Reisen nodded her head, hiding her flushed face.

"Well, you better go and make sure he doesn't cause too much trouble. And you better inform the other rabbits about it too. I'd prefer we settle this without the loss of any ears."

…

And done.

Not much to say, except that Alvin was supposed to be at Hakurei Shrine originally. But I decided to go with Eientei.

The scenes need work and some improvement, but for now this is the best I can do.

Read and review, please and thank you.