First of all… please don't hate me. (or do hate me. If I don't know you, I tend not to care.) the mini-preview for Kid wuz cruel… I know… ;A; but here's a nice long full chapter. :D
Anonymous Reviews:
8fangirl8: congratulations. You're the first anonymous reviewer. XDD I agree totally. He is my FAVORITE character – in everything. Not just Soul Eater. Not just anime. Everything. O.o
So anyways… think Maka's ready for the challenge? ;) also, if you go to deviantART and search me as (duh) DeaththeKidKat, I posted a fullbody picture of Soul as the White Rabbit, per request of my friend Riley. A pic of the Mad Hatter (Stein! Squee!) should also be up soon. ^.^
"How are you the Cheshire Cat? I totally thought you'd be… I don't know, the Knave of Hearts or something," Maka babbled.
Kid raised an eyebrow incredulously. "The Knave of Hearts? He's a silly, incompetent, annoying, weak…" Seeing her expression he cut off. "Anyways," he sighed, "being the Cheshire Cat is much more fun. I can disappear…" To demonstrate his point, he faded away then reappeared behind Maka, making her jump and spin around. "And I get to go wherever I want." He grinned. "Plus I get an awesome outfit."
Noticing it for the first time, Maka's jaw dropped. Before she'd been to shocked to process it, but it looked awfully like that spiky cloak he wore when imitating his father. Minus the mask. Two fluffy cat ears flicked back and forth on his head (the left one striped thrice in white), and a long black tail curled lazily back and forth. But the cloak… she realized with growing horror… was completely irrevocably absolutely asymmetrical. Still gaping, she asked faintly, "Uh… isn't your cloak bothering you?"
He glanced down at it, puzzled. "No."
"And your stripes? Are they annoying you to the point where you want to pass out?" she gasped, fearing the worst.
"No…" This time Kid raised an eyebrow, clearly confused by her random (or so he evidently thought) questions. One freaking eyebrow. Maka felt like fainting.
"You're not OCD!" she exclaimed finally.
Sighing, he rolled his eyes and drawled, "No. Why would I be?"
Trying extremely hard not to fall over in complete shock, Maka just swallowed and inquired tremulously, "What is your challenge? This place is creeping me out. Soul's uptight and a complete perfectionist, Tsubaki's out of wack, BlackStar was being meek – I didn't know that was even in his vocabulary – Stein's not that different actually, Papa's a caterpillar, and Liz and Patty are evil. To top it all off, you're not OCD!" She almost started bawling. "I want to go home."
With another long, suffering sigh, Kid just flicked his tail, pointing off into the forest. "You have to travel through this forest to the other side. I'd reassure you that it's easy, but… it's not." Grinning widely with a touch of evil, he faded until just his glowing golden eyes were left. (And the creepy grin.) "Good luck…" And both eyes and grin winked out. Screeching, Maka leapt forward and tried to grab him, but there was no one there.
"Through that freaky forest?" she moaned. "It'll be the death of me…"
"I hope not." Kid's voice echoed through the trees. The meister thought she saw a glimpse of a black tail, twitching from behind a trunk, but it was gone before she could blink.
"Fine," she grumbled. "Have it your way. I'll trek through your stupid forest. But if I die, will I wake up back home? Where everything is normal again?"
A quick flash of eyes and a chuckle sounded.
"Nope."
Basically meaning… if she dies in Wonderland, in the real world, she'll kinda just disappear. :D more on that later.
Anybody think they know the Knave of Hearts? ;)
Until next chapter…
~DeaththeKidKat
