this is for 666AnimeFreak666, I've been a little busy with schoolwork, but I made this chapter! Enjoy!
I felt myself shaking as I fell, I opened my eyes to Alice's yellow form, gently shaking me.
"Come on Kiki, we have to get going if we're going to go to the Amusement Park!", I slapped her hands away with annoyance. Her aura was a little too bright for me at this moment.
"Okay, okay, I'm up, see my eyes", I pointed to my face. She giggled.
"You're not exactly a morning person are you?", she smiled. I growled, tossing my covers from me and slowly standing up, stretching as I went.
"You have very nice eyes by the way, I've never seen someone with indigo eyes", she complimented me.
"Thank you", I went to the closet and picked out a random dress, they didn't have pants for girls in whatever century or decade we were in. I looked over my shoulder and Alice was still sitting on my bed, her head down, she was playing with her hands
"Do you mind?", I asked, her head suddenly snapped up.
"Oops, I'm sorry let me leave so you can get dressed", she hustled out.
"Wait, just tell me what's this color?", I held the dress up. She cocked her head, and I remembered that she didn't know I was blind.
"It's forest-green, why?", she asked, concern in her voice. I shook my head.
"I was just wondering what shade it was called", I mumbled. I saw the small sliver that was her mouth turn up in a smile.
"Well it's forest green, that one", she pointed to the one next to me, "would be called a marigold yellow". I nodded.
"Thanks, I'll be down in a few", she nodded and walked out. I put on the dress I had in my hand and went over to the vanity. I saw blankness in front of me, which was the mirror. I hated not seeing what I looked like, but over the years I ignored it. If people truly liked me then they should have no problem with the way I look.
I felt around and found a brush and a ribbon. I put my hair up, with a few bangs hanging down over my eyes. Putting slippers on, I had found them in the same closet as the dresses, I walked down the stairs to the kitchen.
I opened it to see Julius's navy-blue aura sitting at the table, and Alice's golden one bustling around the kitchen with pans banging. What I didn't expect was a dark amber person and a familiar gray person sitting down at the table.
"Geez, I thought I was rid of you for a little while", I joked, sitting down at the table next to Nightmare.
He huffed, "That was mean, you're beginning to sound like Gray", he jerked his thumb to the amber person. He was still and silent, almost like he was made of stone.
"I'm only mean to you because you never do any work around here", Gray muttered. Nightmare crossed his arms.
"That's because work is boring and I would rather spend my time with Alice", he said, a little childish.
"Hey Kiki, would you please get me the cinnamon from the top shelf on the right?", Alice requested. I got up and walked over to the shelf and was suddenly confused by the blankly labeled objects.
"You didn't tell them did you?", Nightmare said quietly. I growled in my mind.
"No I didn't, and neither will you!", I thought in my head.
"You have to, besides, how are you going to pull this one off, you can't even make out the paper on the containers, let alone read them", he criticized me. I growled even louder, this time it was out loud. Nightmare chuckled.
"I can't, I'm sorry Alice", she was still running around making breakfast, oblivious to our conversation.
"Why not? It's right I front of you", she said pleadingly, mixing a bowl of eggs. I sighed.
"Because I'm blind", I said quietly. Alice and Gray looked at me.
"What do you mean you're blind, you haven't ran into anything?", Gray asked, getting up and taking down the cinnamon for me. I went back over and sat down.
"I can see shapes from sound vibrations, but I can't see details", I explained.
"It's actually pretty interesting to see", Nightmare commented. I gave him a look.
"Yes, well most people can't read other people's minds", I told him. He shrugged.
Alice brought breakfast over and we began eating while we conversed.
"How did you become blind", Gray asked. I told him my story as the others listened.
"Well you definitely can't tell that you are", Alice said. We got done with breakfast and Alice started pushing me to the door.
"See you later", I waved behind me.
"Okay the first thing you need to know is to never call the owner by his first name", Alice instructed me as we walked.
"Why not?", I asked. She giggled slightly.
"Because his name is Mary Gowland", she answered. I raised my eyebrows.
"Like the ride?"
"Yep, only he hates being called Mary so we call him Gowland", she took a turn on the path. The woods here was more lively than in my world. Even the trees seemed to be calling.
"There's two other people, one is Boris Airay, just so you know he's a cat, and there's Pierce Villiers, he's a rat. Boris always wants to eat Pierce, so you might have to handle Pierce hanging on you. . .", the rest of the trip went on with her explaining the different people in the Park, along with her stories with them. Finally I could hear crowds of people and rides going.
"Um, Alice?", I interrupted her in the middle of her telling me the rivalry between the Hatter and Gowland.
"Yes, what is it?", I stopped as we got closer.
"Are there a lot of people in there?", I asked in a calm voice. If there were a lot of people, my 'vision' was going to get really cloudy from all the little and small noise vibrations.
"Yes, it's an Amusement Park. Why, is something wrong", her head was turned to me and looking me over.
"It's nothing, just tell me if there's something big going on 'kay", she stared at me a little longer, then finally nodded.
"Alright, let's get going", and we got to a couple of gates where Alice showed the attendants a piece of paper. Getting to the final set of gates, the sounds were starting to make my sight waver, all of the colors were starting to blur together, making objects seem distorted. I was even having trouble seeing Alice, who was right next to me.
We went through and I lost it all together. I grabbed onto Alice's arm, her aura was barely there, even with me touching her.
"Are you okay Kiki?", her voice was loud and clear, but I couldn't see it's waves.
"Yes, just the noises of this place are making me as blind as a bat", I punned, "Could you just lead me around her?", she nodded and grabbed my hand and began pulling me into a random direction.
"You know, we can just leave here, you don't have to be here if it's bothering you", she offered. I shook my head.
"I can stand it", I said as something unexpected happened.
I fell to the ground as something plowed into me from my right. It was someone who was now hugging my stomach.
"Pierce! You can't just knock someone to the ground", Alice scolded him. He was still hugging me and wouldn't budge.
"But Nee-san is so cute, plus Boris-kun is being mean again", from his close proximity I could see that his aura was lime-green, almost neon, and he smelled of spearmint. I began pushing him away, feeling animal ears on his head like Peter White's, only this person's was mouse-like, more rounded. I realized that he was probably the Dormouse. He was starting to hurt my stomach, squeezing me so hard.
"I'm not cute and I don't like being pushed to the ground by a stranger", I said, finally freeing myself from him and standing up. Pierce started sniffling. I sighed and held out my hand to pull him up.
"Nee-san doesn't like me?", he sniffed. I felt my shoulders fall at this, feeling guilty. I felt for him, and gave him a good hug.
"I don't hate you, like I said I don't like being pushed to the ground", I told him.
"Plus, I don't think she appreciates having someone clamped to her", Alice added, from my left. I turned to her.
"I'm gonna get you rat!", it was a guys voice and it sounded like he was getting closer. Alice grabbed my hand and pulled me away from Pierce, just as someone whooshed by me.
"Seriously Boris, you nearly knocked Kiki down", Alice told him, a frown in her voice. He had something tinkling on him, I heard it as he came closer.
"Who's Kiki?", he asked, he stopped in front of us, his aura was somewhat purple with pink crisscrossing it, definitely weird. His voice was a little high-pitched, and full of curiosity. The smell of cotton candy surrounded him.
I raised my hand, "The person right next to her".
"Nice to meet you, I see you already had trouble with the rat". Apparently he had been holding out his hand because he suddenly grabbed my hand and shook it.
"What are you shy like Alice", he teased. I blushed. Alice came to my rescue.
"No, she's just blind Boris", Alice said sarcastically. I couldn't see it, but I knew Boris did a double-take.
"Oops, I'm sorry Kiki, I hope I didn't hurt your feelings", Boris said quickly and apologetic. I laughed.
"No it's alright", I waved him off. He laughed too.
"Well did you two come here to ride or have that rat attached to you? Let's get going", he grabbed my hand and started pulling me in my left direction. All of a sudden he stopped and I almost ran into him.
"Boris I'm not sure Kiki wants to go on your highest rollercoaster yet", Alice said at my right, Boris had been pulling her too, and Pierce must have been behind us because the smell of spearmint was still present.
"No, I don't mind at all, I love heights and the wind rushing in my hair", I said now starting to pull them in the direction we had been going.
We went on the ride, Pierce and me in one cart with Alice and Boris in the cart in front. The whole time I held my arms up, with Pierce hiding in my hair because the ride scared him. Alice wasn't too happy either because she screamed at every drop.
We got off and Boris started pulling me somewhere when I heard a voice calling for him.
"Hey Boris, why didn't you tell me that the lass was here?", a scratchy man's voice called, it was a yellowish brown. We stopped and the man came closer, his heels clicking on the cobblestones of the park.
"I see that you've got someone new here, what's your name miss?", he stopped in front of me.
I smiled politely, "My name's Kiki, you must be Mr. Gowland", I guessed since he was the only other person Alice had told me about.
"Why yes I am, just call me Gowland, would you like me to play you a piece as a greeting here?", I heard a rustling as he pulled something out of his pocket.
I heard the people behind me whispering to stop him, but I just looked behind me and frowned disapprovingly. I turned back to him.
"I would love to", I nodded for him to start. That's when my torture began, the mindless droning of the Park was nothing compared to the screeching coming from that instrument in his hand. It made streaks of color flash across my vision, so fast it was blinding and giving me a headaches.
My hands flew to my ears in a attempt to drown out the whining, I could feel myself fall on my knees as I became dizzier. He continued until I finally snapped and grabbed the dreadful thing out of his hands.
"For the love of god, stop Mary!", I shouted as I pulled. He automatically let go at the mention of his name. That's when it struck me what I had done. The three people behind me gasped.
In front of me Gowland started to growl.