Hey guys XD I started writing Empire of Sin somewhat, so I apologize if this takes a bit longer to update ^^; Plus me and Luna finally came up with a plot for our collab Wonderful Wonder World fic~
Disclaimer: I own this. That's why I'm writing a fanfic for it. :|
I snuck out of the Hatter Mansion pretty ninja-like if I do say so myself. No one saw me as I ducked into the bushes outside of the gates, and I was relatively sure that I remembered my way to Clover Tower. Nothing could have possibly gone wrong.
Until I ran into Ace. "Oh!"
I realized after I had chosen my hiding place that it had already been taken. "You! What are you doing here?" I hissed, glaring at him for no particular reason.
"Oh, I must've gotten lost. Who are you, anyway? My name's Ace; I'm a knight at Heart Castle!"
I learned quickly that Ace was a total moron. "I'm Toki, and I'm trying to be a ninja so if you'd just excuse me I have business to attend to at Clover Tower."
"You're going to Clover Tower too? We should go together then!"
"If you were going there then why are you at the Hatter Mansion?"
"This is the Mad Hatter's territory?" he asked. He then proceeded to laugh in the most annoying manner possible- the most horrid laugh you can imagine. A laugh so horrible that it makes you want to stab yourself with a fork, tear a hole in your stomach, and eat your own innards like spaghetti (as my friend would say). "I could've sworn this was the way to Clover Tower!"
"No. It's not, actually."
"There must be a shortcut through here then!"
"No. There isn't."
I grabbed his hand because he started to continue towards the Hatter Mansion. "This way, genuis."
"Hahaha, sorry."
Dear god, why did I get stuck with this moron?
I had to practically drag him behind me, which wasn't fun because he was considerably heavier than I was capable of pulling. And to make matters worse, he had somehow managed to screw up my oh-so-great sense of direction and we ended up not in the wintery place but in what I assumed was spring. And then it was night time, as if the gods hadn't tortured me enough.
Ace stopped and pulled out a random tent out of nowhere. I didn't ask where because I'd learned that questioning such things was stupid in Wonderland.
"Why did you set up your tent?" I asked, completely disrgarding the fact that questioning things of that nature was also stupid in Wonderland.
"Night time's dangerous, so we should rest for the time being."
"Meh. I'm going to keep going."
I stuck to that decision until I heard a wolf howling and decided that perhaps sleeping in a relatively small tent with some random hot guy with an annoying laugh would be better than having my face eaten. I sat in the top left corner (or the top right corner if you were facing the opposite direction of me), as far from he-who-had-no-sense-of-direction-whatsoever-and-should've-gone-and-jumped-off-a-cliff as possible. "Do you want some tea?" he asked, pulling out a random canister of the vile-smelling leaf juice.
"No way. Tea's gross."
I was horribly curious as to where he was keeping all this stuff, especially when he pulled out some blankets too. "You're an outsider, aren't you?" he asked, starting to take off his coat.
"A what?"
"You aren't from Wonderland."
"Nope, I'm from Ohio. Well, Pennsylvania technically, but technicalities are stupid." Naturally I looked at him when I answered, which was kind of awkward because he was undressing in the corner.
"Watching me undress?" he asked with a laugh and weird vampric smile best compared to Blood's own vampire-smiles.
"Shut up and stop stripping. I can and will steal this tent from you and sacrifice you to the wolves."
"Hahahaha~, I'm just taking off my coat, anyway."
"Good. I've had enough awkward moments already."
After I said that I guess he really wanted to provide me with another awkward moment, because he tackled me and pinned me to the ground. I was about to scream "perv!" at the top of my lungs, but he pressed his face to my chest and I was too busy spazzing.
"This sound in your chest, it makes me envy you."
"What're you talking about, you psychopath?"
"Your heartbeat."
Holy beep on a sandwich with a side of beep. What the heck was this guy rattling off about?
He removed his face from where it shouldn't have been in the first place and looked at me. "Listen to the sound in my own chest. You'll understand then."
"No way. I'm leaving."
The wolves decided that they wanted to remind me of them and howled again. "Never mind. I value my face. But I swear, if you do anything to me while I'm sleeping I will stab you in the face and gouge out your brain with a spoon.'
He laughed again. "Goodnight, Toki."
I woke up to find that I had been sleepwalking again. And that I decided to use Ace as my pillow. "DEAR GACKT!" I screeched, so loudly that I think Blood could've heard me.
"Wha...? Toki, what're you doing?" Ace sat up, rubbing his eyes. "I thought you weren't interested in me," he said with a smile.
"I'm not; I tend to sleepwalk."
"Hahahaha~, what an odd excuse."
"Hahahaha~, what an annoying laugh."
As you can imagine, the rest of my epic journey to Clover Tower wasn't very fun. The knight wouldn't stop teasing me about our little incident, and I punched him a few times. I never thought that I'd be so happy to see snow.
"God, it's cold here," I said, trembling from the lack of heat that my über-epic emo punkness provided me with.
"Take my coat."
I was surprised that Ace would offer his coat to me, especially since I spent most of the day punching him. I assumed that as a knight he did have some morals, even if the others were a bit questionable. "Um... Thanks," I said, putting on the bright red coat. It was about sixteen sizes too big, but it was much warmer than what I was already wearing.
It didn't take long to reach the tower once we'd come to the edge of the territory. "So, what're you coming here for?" I asked, trying to create small talk to distract myself from the overall awkwardness that silence ensued.
"I came to see my friend Julius. What about you?"
"I wanted to talk to the lizard-guy; Gray, I think."
Ace seemed puzzled by this for some reason. Or rather, infuriated by this."Why would you want to talk to him?"
"I've got something I wanted to ask him about."
He didn't say anything more, and for once in my life I kept my mouth shut. I only spoke again once we'd reached the tower. "Thanks, Ace," I said, taking off his coat again. "I'll see you around."
He nodded and walked off in what was more than likely the wrong direction to go find his friend. "Ah, Miss Toki. Welcome."
I recognized the über-epic voice of Nightmare's servant immediately. "Hi. Gray, right?" He nodded.
"Are you here to see Nightmare-sama?"
"Nope. I'm here to see you, actually."
He seemed horribly confused, his lizard-like yellow eyes brimming with curiosity. "I have a... favor to ask of you."
I told him my plan and he nodded. "We'll see what we can do."
AN/ Hahahaha~, this chapter was fun. I made several references in this chapter, so I'll just cite my sources:
Sleeping in a tent with Ace and him listening to Toki's heart- Heart No Kuni No Alice manga Vol. 2 (chapter 3, I think?)
Holy beep on a sandwhich with a side of beep- Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series (Tristen~ XD "My voice gives me super strength!")
Dear Gackt- I tend to scream that a lot. Gackt is the most amazingly cute Japanese singer ever and you should all totally go listen to him because he's amazing XD I watch his filmography (Red) almost every night XD He and Hyde are what made Moon Child such an amazing movie. When I heard his song Redemption in the credits for Dirge of Cerberus I immediately fell in love with Gackt's music, and I love L'Arc~En~Ciel, who I'd heard in AlliKatNya's "The Black Rose" AMV and in Fullmetal Alchemist XD So just throw in vampires and a few drugged pizzas and you've got an awesome moive XD
Eating your innards like spaghetti- That one goes to Luna. I forget who she was talking about though XD
lolz Enough ranting XD Thanks for reading~3
