Title: The Wonderland of Judai Yuki

Genre: humor, romance

Rating: T for language

Pairings: JohanXJudai (hinted others)

Summary: While watching the stars one evening, young Judai Yuki sees a young man with bunny ears rushing away. Upon following him, Judai stumbles down a rabbit hole into a mythical place called Wonderland. With a young man named Johan Andersen as his guide, and the strange people that he meets along the way, Judai must find his way back home. But will he be willing to leave Johan and his friends after getting attached to them?

Me: The next chapter is up and running, guys!

Lucy: Johan has discovered that Judai is dying by the Jabberwock's poison, which has infected the wound he received from the Jabberwock when they ran into it!

Me: Will Judai survive, or will he die in Johan's arms? Though that is romantic, I am certain that Johan would be heartbroken if his little brunette, whom he has a secret crush on, dies right there!

Lucy: Please enjoy this chapter!

Chapter Eleven: Cheshire, Cheshire

Johan held Judai in his arms for what seemed like hours. He was aware that Judai's temperature was rising constantly, and he was aware that he should try something to save the brunette.

But what could he do?

He didn't know how to cure a Jabberwock's poison.

He was going to lose Judai, and there was nothing that he could do about it. Johan choked back a sob and cradled Judai as close as he could get him, resting the brunette's chin on his shoulder, Judai's lips inches from his ear. He just cradled the brunette with everything he had, hoping that somehow, someway, someone would come and save Judai.

"My, my," a familiar voice chimed in.

Johan perked up and cast a glare into the direction of a low branch. "Cheshire Cat!" he shouted.

Ruby appeared on one of the low branches in a mist of purple fog, her ruby-colored eyes wild with excitement. She purred and craned her neck so that she could see the brunette laying in Johan's arms.

"It would seem that he crossed an encounter with something with vicious claws," she said.

Johan narrowed his eyes. "What of it?" he asked.

Ruby craned her neck so that she could get a better look at the wound on Judai's arm. "What exactly did that to his arm?" she said, pointing the red ball on her tail towards Judai's arm.

"The Jabberwock," Johan answered swiftly.

Ruby's eyes widened slightly. "The Jabberwock?" she asked. Her body vanished into a purple vapor, and arrived next to the bluenette and the brunette, the Cheshire grin still on her face. "You better let me have a look."

Johan turned to her. "What are you doing?" he asked, clenching Judai closer.

Ruby rolled onto her back in mid air. "A wound by the Jabberwock needs to be purified as soon as possible, or the poison will devour its host from the inside out," she said, motioning to Judai's wounded arm.

Johan's heart pulsated, and he looked down to the brunette.

"Oh, Judai," he whispered.

Ruby motioned her head at Johan's knife, in the sheath. "Do you have some Jabberwock blood on that blade?" she asked. Johan looked down and felt his blade.

"I-I dunno," he whispered.

"If you take blood from the Jabberwock and purify it, it will become an antidote," Ruby said with an even wider Cheshire Cat smile. Johan's eyes widened, and he tore the knife out of his sheath.

To his great surprise and pleasure, the blade was still covered in blood.

Johan handed the blade to Ruby, who took the blade in her purple paws and sifted the silver slab so that the blood was now smeared all over her front paw.

Closing her wide, ruby-colored eyes, Ruby focused her energy and allowed the Jabberwock's poisonous blood to become purified. It turned from a deep purple to a thick green color, and while it looked like poison, Johan knew that it had been purified.

Ruby smiled and put her paw on Judai's wounded arm. "You may want to hurry," she said, turning to Johan. "By the sound of his weak moaning and the intensity of his fever, I'd say he only has a few minutes left."

Johan cast her a horrified look. "W-what?"

"I say, Andersen," Ruby shook her head slowly. "You were suppose to protect him, and you let something like this happen."

Johan looked down at Judai's injury, then to the boy's pale face. He frowned and leaned down, pressing his lips against the injury. He heard Judai give a weak, ragged moan at the connection, but Johan just gripped Judai's hand tightly.

Bare with me, Judai. This won't hurt long, he thought.

The bluenette sunk his teeth down and bit slightly on the injury. He heard Judai's sharp moan of pain, but Johan just gripped his hand tighter and sent him a silent, reassuring mental message.

When he bit down, the purified Jabberwock blood flowed into the wound and mixed with the poisoned blood that filled Judai's veins, and canceled out the venom.

Judai drew in a fierce breath, and his back arched, but Johan noticed right off that his fever started to go down drastically. The bluenette glanced down and noticed that the brunette seemed to get some color back in his face, and though he hadn't awoken, the effects of the anti-venom were working wonders.

The wound even started to turn back to a fairly normal color, though the scratches remained. They were not as noticable as they were a short while ago.

"That should do it," Ruby said, sitting back in mid air beside Johan. "Works every time."

Johan turned to the Cheshire Cat with a grateful smile. "How do I ever thank you for this, Cheshire Cat?" he asked. Ruby gave him a wide grin, wider than usual.

"Just call me Ruby, Andersen dear," she said.

Johan nodded, and turned his attention to the slowly awakening brunette in his arms. Ruby just laid mid air and smiled at the two boys. She chuckled to herself as she noticed the smile on Johan's lips.

I haven't seen that look since he came here all those years ago, she thought with a laugh.

She remembered when she had first met Johan, back when he had first come to Wonderland. He was almost as curious as Judai was, but there was something about him that Ruby would never forget.

The Oyster's mark underneath his eye.

Ruby looked at Johan, still holding Judai, and stretched with a yawn. Her eyes traced over his flawless face, and she curled up so that she could get in a small cat nap before Judai awoke.

He looks better without it anyway, she thought before drifting off to sleep for a few minutes.


Me: Yes! Ruby, you are a genius and a savior! Thank God Judai has survived! Johan would have been heartbroken if Judai had died, especially if he had died in Johan's arms.

Lucy: Well, now that Judai is all right, what will Johan do? Where will they go?

Me: Read on if you would like to find out what will happen to our heroes now that Judai has survived?

Lucy: Please review and we shall update soon!