Psycho-CJ: Here's chapter 12, I hope you like it. This one can definitely be classified under humor. I hope this will cheer you up Rook since this chapter just focuses on Goku, Sanzo and Evan.

Evan: (Whispering) Hey, Rook, if you don't like this, don't worry, a couple more chapters and she'll be back to her normal self.

Psycho-CJ: (Oblivious to what Evan said) I thought this chapter was kind of appropriate considering I wrote it to cheer me up when I was going through some hard times. November is just a bad month.

Evan: Isn't it November now? (Psycho-CJ eyes widen).

Psycho-CJ: Please excuse me while I lock myself inside my room until that evil month has passed.

Goku: She doesn't own Saiyuki or the song she uses.

Sanzo: You should know by now which idiots she does own.

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Chapter 12: Welcome to Happy Land!

Sanzo, Evan and Goku have been walking for an hour around the deserted cave. That past hour has been a living hell for Sanzo. Goku's whining about food and Evan's constant pestering has nearly pushed him over the edge. Goku's "I'm hungry!" is bad enough, but now Evan has decided to call Sanzo "big brother" since the little demon has found Sanzo despises the name. What Sanzo doesn't know is Evan is missing his brother and has decided to substitute Sanzo for Raven, until they find each other.

They finally reach a fork in the road. Evan closes his eyes, trying to pick up on Cassandra's aura. He can barely pinpoint her, making it impossible for Evan to just teleport the three of them to her.

"She's that way!" Evan announces pointing to his right.

"Are you sure?" Sanzo asks.

"Yes big brother." Evan's eyes become big and sparkly, until Sanzo whacks him with his fan. "I mean Sanzo." Evan rubs his head then grab's Goku's arm. "I'll race you!"

"You're on," Goku laughs. The two boys run off, leaving Sanzo behind. Damn it, why are those two not taking this seriously? Sanzo thinks as he runs after them.

Evan and Goku race through the cave, the two of them about even in speed. Evan is still impressed by Goku's speed, it's not everyday Evan meets someone that could be a challenge to him when he is in his true form. The two suddenly stop when they reach a large door that has "DANGER" written in dark red letters. Sanzo finally reaches them and hits them both.

"How many times have I told you two not to run off on your own?!" After recovering from the blows to their heads, Goku and Evan examine the door, not quite knowing what they should do next.

"Sanzo, what does that say?" Goku asks, pointing to the sign.

"Danger!" Sanzo and Evan say at the same time. The two glare at each other, Evan doing his best to make himself look like a mirror image of Sanzo.

"Stop that!" Sanzo whacks Evan on the head.

"I'm sorry, big brother. I didn't mean to make you mad." Evan bursts into tears.

"Disgusting." Sanzo mutters. Evan stops abruptly and smiles at him.

"You guys ready?" Evan chants in his language and a large ball of light forms in his hands. He heaves it at the door and it explodes. The door falls over veiled by a cloud of smoke. Goku and Sanzo stare at Evan with shock, until Sanzo snaps out of it and whacks him on the head with his fan.

"You could have just push the door open."

"But it was fun my way," the little boy smiles from ear to ear. The smoke settles and before them is a round platform. "Okay, not exactly what I was expecting." Evan walks onto the platform and gazes up at the ceiling, which has a red and white spiral painted on it. "Oh, dizzy." Evan loses his balance and sits on the floor to get a grip on himself.

"There's writing on the floor," Sanzo notes. After careful examination, Sanzo realizes the platform is a giant roulette wheel and Evan is sitting on one of the panels.

"Knives R US, Death by Embrace?" Evan reads from the panels next to him.

"What's this?" Goku asks as he pushes a button that says spin. The wheel begins to twirl, unfortunately Evan is still sitting on the wheel.

"Ahhhhhh!" Flashes of black hair can briefly be seen as the wheel spins. A few minutes later, the wheel slows down and comes to a stop. "I think I'm going to be sick." Evan lays his head forward, his eyes spinning in spirals.

"Welcome to Happy Land?" Sanzo reads where the spinner fell. The floor collapses sending the three of them plummeting, landing with a loud thud.

Green grass surrounds them, while a baby blue sky hangs over them. There is no trace of the place they fell from, making Evan realize they probably fell through a dimensional-gate. Daycarthro is more sophisticated in creating these gates. It must take a lot of power to have booby-trapped that room, Evan concludes.

"Where are we?" Evan says as he rubs his bottom.

"What do those signs say?" Goku tugs on Sanzo's sleeve as he points to about four signs standing next to a red-brick road.

"No swearing," Evan reads.

"Always smile," Sanzo reads the sign closest to him.

"'Be kind to everyone. Beware of the bears?! Must be like 'Don't feed the Bears.' What kind of crap did Daycarthro smoke today?" Evan asks. The god is acting completely different and Evan hasn't been able to come up with an explanation. Yes, he was willing to fight Daycarthro an hour ago, but that was when he let his emotions control his actions. The last hour has given him time to reflect on the situation. "I just don't get this. Daycarthro has a kind heart and would never do this do us. I know he did some pretty bad things in his former life, and he has been trying to make up for those sins, but before now, he has done everything in his power to protect us."

"Don't rely on gods to help you. You have to help yourself," Sanzo says. Evan doesn't reply but begins to walk off in hopes he will find Cassandra soon. A flash of brown runs passed Evan, followed by loud cursing by Sanzo. Evan whirls around and finds a little toy teddy bear hugging Sanzo.

"I love you," the bear sings.

"Get the $%^$ off me!" Sanzo kicks the bear off, causing it to tumble across the ground. The bear finally sits up, it's eyes gleaming red.

"You're not very nice," the bear pouts. That is just about the last straw for Sanzo, his patience has already withered away. Sanzo pulls out his gun and shoots the bear's head off.

"Wow, nice shot," Evan laughs.

"Did you really have to shoot its head off?" Goku asks, poking at the stuffed bear's body. "He was kinda cute." Sanzo doesn't say anything as he stalks off.

About ten minutes later they reach a little village with ginger bread houses. Evan gazes around, not believing his eyes. Just like a fairy tale.

"FOOD!" Goku is about to eat one of the houses when Sanzo and Evan both whack him upside the head, Sanzo with his fan, while Evan with a rolled up piece of paper that was the note Daycarthro left them.

"I thought I told you to stop mimicking me!" Sanzo yells.

"You're no fun," Evan places the rolled up paper in the back pocket of his black pants. Suddenly, a long shiver runs down his spine. Evan eyes dart around trying to pinpoint where the person is. "We're being watched," he whispers.

"I don't sense a malevolent power." Sanzo searches the area, but he doesn't sense anything out of the ordinary.

"I didn't say it was evil. I said we are being watched," he clarifies. Sanzo takes out his gun and Goku takes out nyoibou. All of a sudden all the windows to the gingerbread houses are thrown open. About a hundred dolls are peering down at them. "Oh shit!" All of the dolls are looking at them with big smiles on their faces.

"It's a small world after all! It's a small world after all. It's a smaaall world!" All the dolls sing. Evan and Goku practically fall on their faces because of how ridiculous the situation is. Sanzo's eye begins to twitch and he fires a shot in the air.

"SHUT UP! All the dolls stop and gasp.

"You're not very nice," a stuff bunny whines.

"It's not our fault you can't sing worth shit!" Evan snaps. All the toys gasp at Evan's rudeness.

"He broke the rules," a toy monkey cries.

"We should punish them," a purple cat adds.

"Bears! Bears! Bears! Bears!" The dolls chant. A door to one of the ginger bread houses opens and a long line of bears, like the one Sanzo killed, march towards them.

"Oh, I'm so afraid now!" Evan laughs. "Please don't hurt me teddy bears." All the bears eyes begin to glow red and their paws drop open to reveal machine guns. Evan, Sanzo and Goku's eyes turn to the size of saucers. They all duck for cover behind a large statue of a cartoon-dog as the bears open fire on them.

"Baka, now look what you did!" Sanzo hits Evan on the head with his fan.

"You're one to talk! You shot their friend's head off!" Evan counters.

"Sanzo, I'm scared!" Goku whines. A bullet barely misses Evan's head. The boy's blue-violet eyes burn with hatred. He jumps away from cover and heads straight for the bears. He whispers a spell then heaves a mass of light at the bear's, frying them to a crisp.

"No one is allowed to screw around with me." Evan flicks a strand of black hair out of his face. "It takes more than that to kill me, you stupid dolls," Evan says as he turns to the dolls. All of their eyes turned red and Evan begins to curse under his breath as he realized he just made a really big mistake. All the dolls opened fire on him. Evan manages to fade out and reappears next to Sanzo and Goku. "I think I made them mad."

"Baka," Sanzo mutters.

"What are we going to do Sanzo?" The monk's violet eyes turn to Goku. It's up to him to get the three of them out of this.

"Evan, you're a decoy." The boy nods his head, then runs into the street.

"Hey dolls, here I am!" Evan taunts. Luckily for Evan he is extremely agile and able to avoid the gunfire. He manages to glance at where Sanzo and Goku are, but they are no where to be seen. "Those jerks ditched me!"

"Shi ne!" Evan turns around as the dolls in one of the buildings stop firing as Sanzo shoots them all. Sanzo and Goku must have used the distraction to allow them to enter the houses undetected. Evan smiles to himself then begins to cast another one of his spells. The ground begins to break apart under one of the buildings, then light bursts forth destroying one of the gingerbread house. A minute later all the dolls have been defeated by the combined efforts of Goku, Sanzo and Evan.

"We make a pretty good team," Evan tells Sanzo.

"Don't get used to it." Sanzo replies.

"Of course not." Evan kicks one of the heads of the dolls. "Daycarthro must have a really twisted mind to come up with this. Singing dolls bad!"

"Sanzo! I'm hungry!" Goku whines. Sanzo whacks him with his fan.

"Is that all you can think about is food?!"

"Can I eat one of those?" he asks, pointing to one of the houses. Sanzo whacks him with his fan again.

"You don't know where that's been." Evan gets an idea, he digs into his pocket and pulls out a candy bar. "You can eat this. I want you to be at your strongest in case we have to deal with any more demented dolls."

"Sank you!"

"Come on, let's find Cassandra before more of these dolls show up."

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Psycho-CJ: Was that weird enough for you?

Evan: Our you sure you're not the one on crack?

Psycho-CJ: Hey, it was fun to write.

Gojyo: You keep telling yourself that.

Psycho-CJ: Any way, there are three more short chapters like this, I hope you like them so far After those we get into the really bad angst parts, so consider these short chapters as buffers.

Evan: Or a peek into my creator's twisted mind.

Raven: Don't forget to review and tell her what you thought of…this.

Psycho-CJ: And since the next few chapters have pretty much done, expect more chapters more frequently.

Evan: We are passed the halfway point. This will probably be completely done by the end of November.

Psycho-CJ: Unless something comes up. Till next time.