Here we go again...

Warnings: Strangeness and a few inside jokes. (DratiniRocket, I think you'll understand them. Tee hee. ^_^)

Okay! Time to give the non-plot a jump start!
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So, as it seemed, Carrot was being chased by an Italian tic-tac-toe junkie. All around the town...sing along now!

The Italian tic-tac-toe junkie is chasing Carrot around, Carrot around, Carrot around! Ohhhh, the Italian tic-tac-toe junkie is chasing Carrot around, all around the tooown!

"WARGH!!" And that was when the song came to an end with a blueberry pie. "I surrender," Carrot panted as he collapsed with a pie tin on his head.

Yeah. Meanwhile...

"What was that..?"

"Eh? What was what?"

"I thought I just heard my brother screaming..."

"Okay. And? Chocolate probably got ahold of him."

"You're probably right."

"Y'know, sometimes I think you need to be hit over the head for worrying about that moron so much."

"......."

Gateau inwardly winced, realizing he'd said the wrong thing to get on Marron's good side.

Well, that wouldn't matter much longer anyway.

As the two hunters walked along the path to town, they passed what looked to be a small forest. Marron stopped for a moment and squinted his eyes somewhat. Gateau halted after noticing that Marron had stopped.

"What?"

"...." Marron held up a hand to call for silence...he'd heard something from the smallish forest.

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Hidden within a thicket of trees was a vast meadow. The ground was saturated with natural pastels of purple, pink, red and blue. A soft wind blew by, causing the natural garden's inhabitant to sway as though caught in a dance...

Speaking of which.

Out of nowhere, cheesy piano music started to play as an intro for a musical number.

A shrill, happy...off-key...deranged...voice sang out very loudly:

"I'M A CUCUMBER, I'M A CUCUMBER, I'M A CUCUMBER, I'M A CUCUMBER!!! I'M A CUCUMBER, I'M A CUCUMBER -- PLEASE DON'T TAKE ME TO THE PICKLE FARM -- Yeah!!"

Trampling the flowers as she ran around in a circle 'dancing', a teen in a bright pink tee shirt sang...or yelled, a song made famous by Brak.

Over. And over. And over.

Gateau grimaced, rubbing his offended ears, "Whatever the hell that was, I'm sure you could hear it from three miles away."

Marron grimaced also as the song was repeated.

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"Oh gods," groaned a mysterious figure as a gloved hand slapped over his forehead. "...Maybe opening Pandora's box wasn't such a good idea."

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Well...that's all I have for right now. Just wanted to let you know that I was not dead, simply writing madly for other fandoms (for which the fics will probably never be typed..)

Hope you enjoyed this part, more to come!