Here's chapter threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeee!
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or Alice in Wonderland, just my oc.
The four of them had been walking around for a few hours now, more like three of them since Raven was carrying Thomas. Anyone could easily tell that Gar was starting to get annoyed, he had a scowl on his face, but he was trying hard not to say anything. His fists were clenched and his teeth gritted, his ears had flopped over for lack of a need to listen to anything at the moment.
Nixie happily and carelessly walked a few feet in front of the rest of them, swinging her arms back and forth and kicking her legs up to an unneeded height as she preceded forward, her tail swishing back and forth with each step.
Raven was at the back of the pack, struggling to carry Thomas as he continued to squirm, he wasn't crying but he was making strange grunting sounds almost like a baby pig. Her attention was pulled from the baby when Gar suddenly had an outburst.
"Nixie, do you even know where we're going?!" He shouted.
Suddenly Nixie stopped walking and turned around. "Um…in a word…no…?"
Gar let out a frustrated sigh, "That's just great, see this is why I don't bring you places anymore, you get us completely off schedule and you get us lost."
"At least I know how to have fun." She huffed crossing her arms and pouting like a child. "If you weren't so focused on keeping a schedule and not getting lost, you'd have a hell of a lot more fun in life. I'm just trying to add some flavor to your day, make you stop and smell the roses for once y'know?"
Raven watched as the two bickered, they looked a lot like her friends on the team, but they were nothing alike, Gar was ten times more serious than Beast Boy, and Nixie was about thirty times more annoying than Nix. Though the argument the two were having sounded familiar…almost like an argument Raven herself would have with Beast Boy. Suddenly she noticed there was no weight in her arms, she looked down and saw that Thomas had gotten away, he was crawling back in the direction they'd come from, Raven quickly chased after him.
Gar continued to yell at Nixie, unaware that Raven had run off. "You're selfish, rude, vulgar, and if it wasn't for the fact that I have so many errands to run to the duchess' house I wouldn't even be talking to you in the first place!" Gar yelled.
"Uh Gar." Nixie tried to interrupt.
"If it weren't for the fact that you have no other friends I wouldn't have let you come on this little excursion with Raven and I in the first place, not that I wanted you to join us either way."
"Gar about Raven-"
"Can't I just spend ten minutes talking to a nice girl without you interrupting us a-"
"GAR!"
"What?"
"Raven's gone…." Nixie said turning Gar around to look at the path behind them, indeed Raven was gone, and now they'd have to go look for her in the middle of a gigantic forest.
When Raven finally caught up with the baby she noticed something peculiar about him. He was still making the strange grunting noises and upon picking him up she noticed he'd actually turned into a pig. 'Okay…this has to be a dream.' Raven thought. She went to pinch herself, but it didn't work, she didn't wake up. 'Great, so I'm stuck here, that's fantastic.' She thought. "Well…if you're a pig now I guess you have to go off into the wild…or something." She said awkwardly as she placed the baby pig on the ground and watched him run off.
She looked around and realized she didn't recognize where she was, and there was no sign of Gar or Nixie anywhere. 'Crap…so I'm stuck in a dream, and my tour guides through this dream world are now M.I.A….I'm screwed.' She looked around before deciding she better head back in the direction she came from. However the farther she walked, the less familiar things got.
"This is not good." She looked around, every single direction in the forest looked the same and yet different, unfamiliar. Even looking at where she'd just come from didn't look the same. She decided to keep moving forward, something was bound to look familiar eventually…right?
After a while of walking, she came across a dimmer part of the forest, she smelled an odd scent, almost like smoke, but it was a pleasant scent at the same time. She followed the scent until she was standing in front of a rather large mushroom. There was someone or something on the top of the mushroom, maybe they knew how to get out of the forest, she noticed there were some smaller mushrooms to the left of the giant one, that made something like a staircase to the top of the mushroom. She climbed up to the top mushroom.
"Um…excuse me?" She asked. The person, whoever they were, didn't turn around. They continued to stare off in the other direction, at least she knew where the source of the smoke was, whoever they were, they were smoking something odd. "Excuse me!" The person still didn't respond. From what Raven could see, this person had long blonde hair, and must have been part caterpillar. 'Great, just what I needed, another anthropomorphic animal to talk to.' "I was wondering if you could tell me how to get out of the forest."
Finally the person turned around. "Who are you and why should I help you?"
Raven stared, of course, the anthropomorphic caterpillar just had to look like Terra.
"I said, who are you?" the caterpillar demanded.
"I'm Raven." Was all Raven could say.
"Raven who?" the caterpillar questioned her further.
"Raven daughter of Trigon, member of the Teen Titans, lost half-demon in a forest, trying to wake up from a dream." Raven said listing off anything she could think of.
"Yes, but who does that make you?" the caterpillar asked. "Once you can answer that, then you deserve my help." She said before crawling off of the mushroom and further into the forest.
Raven was alone again, and that conversation had made no sense. "Well that's just great, now what do I do?"
"Raven is that you?" She could hear Gar calling her.
"Gar? Where are you?" Raven called back.
Gar walked into the part of the woods where Raven was. "Down here!" He called.
Raven gave a small smile before jumping down onto the ground next to him. "Where's Nixie?"
"I'm not sure, we split up to go look for you, she's probably at the Mad Hatter's tea party, she loves going there." Gar said. "Hey…this is where Tara the caterpillar lives, is she here?"
"I'm afraid she just left." Raven said, a little harsher than intended. "L-let's go find Nixie."
After much walking the two of them reached a large table in the middle of the forest, just as had been expected, Nixie was there, laughing it up with two people that looked very similar to Kid Flash and Cyborg.
"Oh Raven you're alive!" Nixie cheered as Raven and Gar walked up to the table.
"Yeah, thanks to me." Gar mumbled.
"Raven I'd like you to me Victor the dormouse and Wally the march hare." Nixie said before taking another sip of tea, completely ignoring Gar's comment.
"Pleasure to meet you Raven." Victor said.
"Have a seat please." Wally added.
Raven and Gar each took a seat opposite the other three people at the table. Suddenly a giant worm that looked similar to Silkie, dressed in a top hat and a little bow tie, came sliding down the table. "Um, who's he?" Raven asked.
"That's the mad hatter." Nixie said, her smile growing larger.
'Of course he is.' Raven thought. "Isn't it a little late for tea?" she said out loud.
"Oh, it's always tea time here." Victor said. "Isn't that right Wally?"
"Sure is Victor." Wally agreed. "The old hatter here insulted time, and so time stopped, now it's never anytime but tea time."
Raven continued to stare at Silkie, excuse me, the mad hatter in disbelief. This dream was just getting more and more messed up.
"So Raven, where were you anyways?" Nixie asked.
"Oh I ended up wandering over to caterpillar by the name of…Tara was it?" Raven replied.
"Oh! Did she make you recite 'How Doth the Little Crocodile'? she makes me do that."
"I'm sure she just does that as a way to make you say things that a pleasant to hear." Gar mumbled, glaring at the table in front of him.
Nixie stuck her tongue out at Gar before going back to sipping her tea.
"So um…where are we going to go next?" Raven asked, trying to break the tension.
Gar's ears perked up and he stopped glaring at the table. "Oh I was thinking maybe we could go to see the rose gardens outside the castle."
Nixie, Wally, and Victor motioned for raven to say no but Raven didn't notice. "Sure that sounds like it could be a lot of fun."
Gar stood up, "Great let's go." He took Raven's hand and pulled her up too.
"Nixie you coming with?" Raven asked.
Nixie chuckled awkwardly. "Uh n-no, I think I'll catch up with you two later…still gotta finish my tea."
Raven looked confused. "Your cup is empty."
Nixie was silent for a few seconds before Wally yelled "CLEAN CUP!"
"Heh, sorry can't Raven, its clean cup time, new cup means more tea and more tea means I can't go. Sorry!" Nix said before scrambling around the table like the others.
Raven shrugged and then turned to follow Gar towards the castle, what could possibly be so wrong with a rose garden?
I wrote three of these chapters at once cause they were gonna be one chapter but I figured it was too long, so they're three chapters. Lucky you! Three chapters in one day! There's still plenty more to go though! Please R&R!
