I'M BACK!! Woo!! This feels great!! I am so sorry to have left you alone with such a tiny chapter for so long, but, something terrible happened; when I moved, someone stole my computer!! Rat bastards… Now, I didn't get a new one, but I did finally get a USB adapter. The reason it took so long was because I was broke and had to rely on mom to get it. Got to get a job… Anyway, here's the new chapter, and feel nice because you're the first of my readers who know I'm back.

Disclaimer- The following piece may be largely based upon a dream I had, but it incorporates the works of Bleach, Alice in Wonderland, and Trinity Blood, none of which I own in any way, shape, or form.

The Adventure Begins!

As Ester fell into oblivion, her life flashed before her eyes. Not surprisingly, it was very often filled with gunfire and dead people.

'At least …this way… I'll be reunited with Sister Elizabeth…' As she accepted her fate, she closed her eyes and got ready for the final blow.

Splutch!!

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In the deep darkness of wherever she was, Esters eyes finally fluttered open.

I'm…alive…?" she muttered. She tried to stand up but promptly slipped and fell back down into the warm, stifling muck. "Eeeewwww… What is this??" She looked down to try to see what she was covered in, but then she suddenly realized; she couldn't see. Completely enveloped in darkness, she literally could not see her hand in front of her face. She was all alone, standing ankle deep in muck, in pitch darkness, no weapons to defend her. She was in trouble.

'M-maybe in the sewers or something? Yeah, that's it!' Not even fooling herself, she new that not even the most desperate vampire would take to the sewers for any reason; they'd sooner stand on the Vatican's doorstep with a target on their chest. Either way there wasn't anything to gain from just standing there, so, with her hands out in front of her, she set off looking for… well, she didn't know what.

After what seemed like ages, she finally saw, on the far horizon, a pin prick of light.

'Light! I'm almost there. Just a little farther…' As she egged herself on, her cheers were interrupted by a faint noise.

"Honk!"

"What's that? Sounded like a train or something…" Already jumpy, she almost believed it, but immediately laughed it off. "A train… what was I thinking? I mean this is like a sewer or something, not like an underground railroad! Who ever heard of such a--"

"Honk!!"

There was absolutely no denying it; that was a train. And it sounded closer; much closer than last time. She slowly turned around to find the most disturbing sight yet; a large train was barreling towards, its single headlight glaring straight ahead like a monster with a one track mind. After that, all cheers stopped; she didn't need them. Being given the ultimatum of run or be run over, her strength quickly came back and she flew.

"What in the hell did I get myself into?!" she cried. She closed her eyes and urged her legs to go faster, praying to anyone who would listen for help. Not looking where she was going, her foot caught and dislodged what felt like a rod in her path. She tripped and went sailing through the air for a second time that day, landing hard on her stomach. With the train less than a 10 yards away, it would've spelled the end for her had the goo acted as a lubricant, and she slip n' slided down the hall to the light.

'C'mon, c'mon!!' she urged herself. The exit was less than 20 feet away… 15 feet… 10 feet… 5… Praying with all her being that the even closer train would spare her life, she slid down the last few feet, and…

(AN: Your face should look like this now— 00 )

Wind and light hit Ester like jumping into a cold bath; shocking and refreshing all at once. She cracked open one puffy eye to see something she couldn't imagine if she built it.

Like a scene out of a Feudal painting, clusters of large villages were inhabited by people in worn yukata, milling around doing whatever it was that ancient Japanese people did. Shops, houses, and shacks surrounded everything, including fields and streets. And in the middle, like a huge, gleaming pearl, was a completely different place. It had sky scraper upon sky scraper, and was itself inhabited by people, but they were all wearing the same uniform of a black hakama. It was all nicely fringed by miles and miles of dense forest.

"What… what is this place?!" she breathed. Then she wondered how she could see all this. That's when reality hit her like Father Abel's slap; just as shocking, not as refreshing. She looked directly down, and confirmed her worst fears; she was looking at the panorama from several stories up. "Eep…"

She immediately shut her eyes as she fell for the third time that day. Plummeting to the ground she prayed for a back-up miracle so she could survive this new deadly encounter. Alas, no amount of the ooze she was covered in could save her this time, unless it was like Flubber or something. Putting all her faith in God, and wondering why this was never mentioned in the Bible, she clasped her hands together.

"God? You know I love you, right? So, uh, little help here…?" Her prayers were answered when she smacked hard against the surface of a hot, hot lake. Stunned like a fish, she wondered if she was in hell, but was relieved when she floated to the top and did not find a valley of fire and brimstone. She did find, however, sunlight glinting off of a valley of smooth black rocks guarding an absolutely enormous house.

'Maybe I should try to leave; trains, falls, and now, boiling lakes! I'll be dead by sundown if this keeps up…' she thought morosely as she dragged herself up and out of the water, and onto an equally hot rock. 'At least' she optimized, 'the water washed my habit clean.'

She flipped over and allowed the sun to dry her off, trying to regain her strength while she was at it. She almost dozed off, had the vibrations not woken her up.

"What now?! An earthquake??" No Ester, not an earthquake; something probably worse. "Worse?!" Yes, worse. She looked up at the house, and saw a giantess making her way towards the lake. She was tall (of course), very thin, and very buxom. Her long black hair was held up in a bun, and she was wearing nothing but a towel.

'Great; I'm not going to be run over or fall to my death; I'm going to be squashed underneath a giant chick…' She tried to get away, but the smoothed down rock provided no traction and she accomplished nothing but sliding back down to the ground. Instead, she ended up running for her life underneath all the rocks. Where she was running to she had no idea.

"Don't spend too long in the bath, Asami!" a voice called from the house.

"I won't Mao-san!" she called back. As she kept plodding towards Ester, she dropped her towel on the ground covering her. When she finally kicked her way out, she only did so to witness a nude Asami canonballing into the pool.

"Father in Heaven, NO!!" she cried just as a tsunami swept her into the open air for the fourth time. Lukily, she landed on her clothse, but might as well have landed on sand, coarse as they were. As our heroine made a break for it, the giant reached over to find a rag, but, instead, got a fistful of Ester.

Now most of us would recognize a minature nun, but, in a world without Catholocism, all her brain registered was a--

"RAT!!"

She threw Ester as she found herself airbourne for the fifth time that day. This time, however, our nun wasn't so lucky, and she crashed through the flimsy paper screen, somersaulted across the faded tatami, and hit the table with the back of her head. When her vison straightend out, she saw her doom in the form of a wooden meat hammer.

"Asami, what were you thinking, kicking it in here?!" an older woman cred. She was tall and lean, with very light brown hair tied up in a bun. The one holding the hammer, she looked very high strung.

"Pipe down, before you have half the neighborhood in here." an even older woman said. She was short and had very gray hair. It said something for experience that she was the calmest one out of the three. Here she grabbed Ester and pinned her to the wooden table. Not being able to do anything else, she turned her head away, and waited for the proverbial axe to fall...

"What is going on here?!" an voice called from the front door. In walked an old man with a long beard, long white hair, and unusually bright eyes.

"We're killing vermin, that's what!! Now leave us alone!"

"Mao, you know I don't like violence anywhere in my village! Now listen to your father for once and put the hammer down!!" Reluctantly complying, she threw it to the ground, and the old guy walked over and picked her up. She didn't know who he was or where he came from, but was she ever grateful to him. "Now then, let's set the poor thing free."

"Are you insane?! Not killing it is one thing, but setting it loose is another. It's probably built a nest under here already! Drown it!!"

"Um, excuse me...?" Up until now, Ester had been silent, but now that they were discussing her future, she thought it only fair that she get a say in the matter. Wouldn't you?

"Um, I'd hate to interrupt, but, I'm not a rat."

"..."

"WHATWHATWHAT?! It talks!?" In the midst of Mao's full-fledged freakout, Old Guy picked up his glasses, and peered at her.

"What's this? It's a young girl!"

"What? A girl?! But, but...!"

"Why is she so tiny?" Asami finished for her.

"Well, why don't we ask her? I've been looking for some excitement lately."

Well, that's all for today, folks! But don't worry, I promise to have something new up before long. I have a USB adapter, now. From now on, unless the library burns down, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR STORY!! Bye!! (Review!!)