Chapter 8: Duchess Stella, Millie the Cook, and the Cheshire Fizzarolli
Being able to return to his normal, Blitz continues his journey to find Moxxie Rabbit, and find his way out of this odd upside down world. After some walking, Blitz is able to reach the cleaning of the forest. When he is out, he looks to see a large mansion that is about three stories tall. In fact, to Blitz, it looks a lot like Stolas' mansion. He looks at the mansion with a confused and curious expression, and wonders who is the owner.
"Hmm, maybe someone can give me directions to this place?" Blitz says to himself and walks to the front door of the mansion.
Blitz walks over to the mansion and reaches the front door. Yet, next to the door is an imp that is dressed in a dark blue and white color outfit with puffy sleeves, and he has white hair. He resembles one of the servants at the Goetia estate.
The Imp asks, "Are you thinking of going inside?"
"To get some directions or to see if Moxxie Rabbit is around, then yes," Blitz answers.
"Well then, you will have a difficult time because the house is in a bit of an uproar and I can't let you inside because I've decided to resume my duties from out here," The Imp servant says.
"When will you be able to do that?" Blitz asks.
"Once someone knocks on the door and I invite them in. However, it will be impossible for the Duchess and the cook to answer since there's a frenzy going on in the kitchen," The servant says.
Blitz rolls his eyes with a groan, "Forget it, I'll just let myself in."
With that, Blitz opens the door and becomes shocked as he ducks his head. Something flies between his horns and lands on the ground with a crash. Blitz turns around to see a plate that has shattered on the ground.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Blitz questions, and walks inside to see what is happening.
He walks down the hall and soon he begins to sneeze like crazy, "Achoo! Achoo! Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!"
"Why am I fuckin sneezing like crazy?! Achoo!" Blitz exclaims, and continues to sneeze.
Blitz soon hears the sound of what seems to be someone else sneezing. He walks down the hall and finds the kitchen where he sneezes a lot more. To his surprise, he sees a familiar female Imp that has short black hair and black with thin white striped horns, and is wearing a chef hat, a black and red striped dress and a white apron. She is standing in front of a stove that has a large pot.
Confused Blitz asks, "Millie?!"
The Imp resembles Millie, turns around and says, "Hey. Give me a second to put more pepper into this soup. More Pepper!"
Then turn back to the soup and put a lot of pepper in it. That causes Blitz to sneeze even more.
"Don't you think that's a little too much Mills? Achoo! Achoo!" Blitz asks as he sneezes.
"You can never have too much pepper. I'm busy cooking at the moment so why not talk to the Duchess," Millie the Cook says.
"Duchess?" Blitz questions.
"That would be me," A calm, cold, yet familiar voice answers.
Blitz turns around to see a familiar avian demon wearing a black and white color gown and wears a royal headdress on her head with silk fabric over it. She is sitting on a chair and is being calm. What shocked Blitz is that the Duchess looks like Stella, Stolas' wife, and last he remembers, she kind of hates his guts for having an affair with Stolas, even though it's supposed to be a negotiation for his business.
"Uh hello, I guess you're the duchess," Blitz asks, trying to remain calm.
"Yes. I am. I am Duchess Stella, the owner of this household. That is Millie my cook, and on the couch is my cat," The Duchess introduces herself calmly, but seems aggressive.
Blitz turns to look at the couch and to his shock, he sees a familiar robotic jester from Loo Loo Land, Robo Fizzarolli. The difference is that the robotic jester's hat looks more like cat ears, and shows a big grin on his face. He even has a cat's tail that is wagging around a little. The robotic cat turns to Blitz, giving him a big and sinister grin on his face.
"Uh, why is he grinning at me like that?" Blitz asks, feeling uncomfortable.
Duchess Stella answers, "That's because he is a Cheshire Fizzarolli. They always grin like that."
"Kind of reminds me of that robotic jester reject who always grins at everyone and everything," Blitz mutters to himself.
"More pepper!" Millie the Cook shouts.
As she screams 'More Pepper' she begins to throw plates, tea cups, and bowls all over the place. Shattering pieces of glass on the floor, on the table, practically everywhere.
"Uh okay, how are you able to stand having so much pepper in your soup?" Blitz asks.
"Pepper adds some flavor and to spice some food. The more pepper the better," Duchess Stella says.
Blitz thinks, confused, "I don't know about that, but even I don't put that much pepper in my food."
Then Duchess Stella says, "On the other note, I must keep the conversation short because I am scheduled to have a tea party and to play croquet with the queen."
"The queen?" Blitz asks.
"Yes. Do you have an invitation?" Duchess Stella asks.
"No. I never played croquet before either, nor do I feel that interested in playing a game. I want to know where Moxxie Rabbit is or how to get to the castle where the King and Queen live," Blitz calmly says.
Millie the cook turns to happily and says, "Oh, you must be my husband. He works for the king and queen, so he should be at the castle. The castle is still long away from here. Now… Time for some more pepper!" Then begin to shake a lot more pepper into the soup and other pots being cooked on the stove.
Then shouts, "More Pepper!" And begins to throw the plates, glasses, and other stuff around.
The duchess then moves her body left, right, and ducks her head to avoid having her head strikes by the plates and cups.
Then says, "Now if you will excuse me, I will need to get ready to play croquet with the queen."
Blitz begins to panic as Millie the cook is throwing a lot of plates and cups. He soon panics when Millie is resorting to throwing pots and pans at them.
Blitz panics, "I think I better leave too!"
Blitz quickly runs out of the kitchen, and closes the door as the pan crashes into it. Blitz then hurries outside of the mansion and hurries into the woods of Wonderland.
Blitz takes deep breaths in exhaustion, "That was fuckin close. What the hell was that about? I don't think I'm planning on being around those nutcases."
Then walks away, "I better go find the rabbit myself before I'm going to fuckin lose my mind."
Sometime later, Blitz arrives in a different part of the forest and it has many different signs hanging on the bark of the trees.
"Let's see, where was I…?" Blitz questions himself.
He walks around as he looks at the signs, reading 'This Way' 'That Way' 'Left' 'Right' 'Go Back' and etc.
"Hmm, which way am I supposed to go?" Blitz questions.
Suddenly, he hears a robotic voice, "You can either go left… or you can go right…"
Blitz begins to look around frantically for the source of the voice.
"You can either go north… south… or east… or even west…" The robotic voice adds.
Blitz looks around and calls out, "Who's there?"
"Up here!" The voice calls out.
Blitz looks up in the trees to see a familiar big sharp teeth grin at the tree top.
"What in the? Who are you supposed to be?" Blitz asks, shocked.
"You remember me, I saw you at the house not long ago," The grin says.
Then other parts of the body where the grin is appears revealing Cheshire Fizzarolli, the same cat from Duchess Stella's house. Blitz is shocked to see that Cheshire Fizzarolli's body has fully appeared as he lays on the tree branch with his claws on his face.
A little annoyed to see the robotic jester cat, Blitz says, "Great. It's you again. What do you want?"
"I thought you would like some directions. It depends where you want to get to," Cheshire Fizzarolli says.
"It doesn't really matter, as long as I can figure out where…" Blitz answers.
Then Cheshire Fizzarolli laughs and says, "Then it really doesn't matter which way you go."
Then scratches his body and picks up Blitz into the air.
He moves up as he says, "You can go up!"
"You can go down," Cheshire Fizzarolli says, going down.
Then begins to spin Blitz around as his legs winds up together and lift Blitz in the air.
"You can go around in circles," The robotic cat adds.
Then spins backwards as his legs unwinds, "And you can spin back to where you come from. And no matter where you go, you can reach for a destination."
Then let's Blitz go as he spins around in circles until he comes to a stop. Blitz stops spinning around as he stumbles back as his head is still spinning. Then lands on the ground with a thud. He shakes his head to get rid of the dizziness and becomes surprised to see Cheshire Fizzarolli is in front of him, but it's only his head.
Then the robotic cat says, "By the way, if you really want to know. Little Moxxie Rabbit went that way." and points to the left.
"He did?" Blitz asks, surprised.
"He did what?" Cheshire Fizzarolli asks.
"Went that way?" Blitz asks.
"Who did?" Cheshire Fizzarolli asks, tilting his head.
"Mozzie Rabbit," Blitz sternly says.
Then Cheshire Fizzarolli sits on the tree and shrugs his shoulders, "Who?"
"But you were just saying that Moxxie went in that direction you stupid robotic jester like feline," Blitz angrily says, losing his patience.
Cheshire Fizzarolli presses his hands against his cheeks and says, "Oohoohoo!"
Then says, "You sure are being salty. But if I were you, I'd ask Mad Hatter Wackford." Then his robotic arm stretches towards a sign.
"The who?" Blitz asks, turning his head to the sign.
The sign is pointing to a path that has a hat on top. The sign reads 'Mad Hatter Wackford."
"Anyone else I can ask," Blitz asks.
"There's also the March Loo Loo in… that direction," Cheshire Fizzarolli says, pointing to the opposite direction of the sign.
"Well, I guess I'll see him first," Blitz says.
"Of course, he's pretty mad as well," Cheshire Fizzarolli says.
Blitz arches his eyebrow and asks, "What exactly do you mean by mad?"
"It's obvious if you think about it. Of course, you can't help with not being among them. Most everyone's mad in this world," Cheshire Fizzarolli says.
He then begins laughing as his body disappears into thin air, followed by his head, until his eyes and grin remains. The eyes glow red as it disappears, and his grin is the last to disappear in the darkness. That laughter and display leaves chills down Blitz' spine.
He shutters and mutters, "I hate that fuckin, stupid feline like clown."
He sighs and says, "Might as well go find this Mad Hatter Wackford and March Loo Loo and see if they can help me find Moxxie."
Blitz then follows the path Cheshire Fizzarolli leads. He just hopes those two aren't as insane as everyone else in this place.