"Let the game begin." I quoted, looking towards Bri as she tried to make since about the dream I just told her. She frowned before a light bulb went off above her head. Literally, she carried around a little battery powered light bulb that she would pull the string of when she got an idea, turning the light on, before turning it off and putting it away and explaining the idea. I really didn't understand her sometimes but then again, neither does anyone else.
"Maybe you just wanted to play a game! How about this, let's play hide and seek!" She was already grinning as she no doubt thought up a lot of different places I couldn't reach easily. "You're 'it' and if I find our other friends and manage to convince them to play then you'll have to search for all of us." She said before running off in a random direction as I rolled my eyes. I just leaned against the wall, counting in my head with my eyes closed, enjoying the spring breeze. I sighed when I reached fifty, pushing off the wall only to collide with someone. I looked up at the male that I ran into, taking in his surprised expression and his outfit, and I would have mistaken him for a teacher had he not looked so young. His bunny ear accessory threw that image off as well.
"Sorry, now excuse me." I brushed the front of my shirt off; slightly disturbed by the calculating look in the bunny dude's eyes, before walking off in the direction Bri had gone at first. Knowing her simple mind, she would continue in that direction until she came across one of our friends before turning left and that pattern would repeat itself until she ended up back at the starting point and hid herself in a tree or something. I took my sweet time going towards the place that Kene would often frequent, knowing it would take a lot to convince him to play the game and that Bri wouldn't give up. I just had to be quiet near there so I could catch her before I had to run all over the place. My thoughts were interrupted when I was suddenly in the air, arms beneath my shoulders and my now bent knees, and I was looking at the happy face of the bunny cosplayer guy. "What the- let me go, you freak!" I struggled but realized, no matter how strong I was, this guy was much stronger.
"Why so mean, my dear? I have searched for you, far and near." He seemed slightly upset before he was back to being joyous. "I never would have thought you were here." Ok, the rhyming was slightly disturbing. Did he do that on purpose or is that just the way he spoke?
"Yeah, well neither would I. Now let go of me, Comic con is somewhere else!" I hit his chest in an attempt to free myself and heard a crack. Now, the question is if it was my wrist popping or a bone in my hand breaking. I felt my eye twitch when he didn't make any motion to show that he felt it before he suddenly dropped me. I cried out at the sudden fall before screaming, feeling the fall was much longer than it should have been and that I should probably not be in this weird ass hole that has a bunch of toys and games and tea related things floating around and stuck in the walls. "I'm going to die! I don't want to die!" I yelled out, panicking as the free fall was starting to bring more light.
"I seriously doubt that a fall like this would kill. But the inhabitants surely will." Ok, now I know that he's doing that on purpose. I shut my eyes tightly, hugging my torso as the fall was coming to an end, before my eyes flew open at the gentle landing. I looked around, confused about the new scenery, before I spotted the man just standing there, brushing some imaginary dirt off of his sleeve. I stared at him, annoyed at his nonchalant expression, before I saw him take a vial looking thing out of his pocket.
"The hell?" I muttered, standing up as he walked towards me. I raised my eyebrow when he tipped the vial back and downed all of its contents before he reached out towards me. "Eh?" I muttered as he drew closer before his lips were suddenly against mine, causing me to gasp and for the liquid that was in his mouth to slip into mine. The liquid was making me have to choose between dying from not being able to breath or swallow it so that the bunny guy would let go of my mouth and nose. I swallowed the liquid, tears going to the corners of my eyes as my chest started hurting from not being able to breathe, and he let go of me, wiping his mouth against his sleeve as I gasped for breath. "What the hell man? Was that poison?!" I wiped my mouth against my sleeve as well, glaring towards the white haired male. He seemed genuinely offended.
"Why would I bring someone as pretty as you to the Country of Clover if I desired to poison you? I believe it to be smarter to do that in your own country, is that not true?" Ok, the rhyming was seriously getting on my nerves. "My dear Kat, please do not doubt me. I simply wish the best for thee." Yeah, it's definitely on purpose.
"Well, if you wish the best for me, then leave me alone. I'll find my own way home." I muttered as I continued wiping my mouth, walking towards the forest that was all around. We were in a clearing full of flowers but I changed that by walking in a random direction. It took me a few minutes of walking before I realized something. My eyes widened in horror as I froze mid step. I… I just rhymed. I shook my head before continuing my walk, fixing my messenger bags strap on my shoulder so that the weight didn't hurt it. I heard a bush rustling and figured it was a rabbit so I walked towards it so I could see something cute for once in a long time. There aren't any rabbits on the school's grounds. I walked around the tree only to see something shiny suddenly get put in my face. Specifically two shiny things. I pulled back a little, looking at the axes that were right in my face, before looking behind them to see two disappointed boys, one in red and the other in blue but looking so alike that the only thing that was different about them were their eye color and uniform color. I raised my eyebrow at the kids, pushing their life like ax toys out of my face, marveling at the life like feel of it, before putting my hands on my hips while they just stared at me.
"Brother, that's not the one we were looking for. It was a faceless, right?" the red one looked at the blue one who looked back at him and shrugged.
"Yeah, I think so. I didn't get a good look at her face." They turned back towards me. "We could play with her instead though."
"You know, it's rude to talk about someone when they're right in front of you." I sighed, rubbing my forehead. "Is there a civilized place anywhere near here?" they looked between each other before grinning. "I'll pay you if you show me to a town or somethin." I know little boys like them; they only care about video games and fancy toys. Not that I'm not like that. I have enough money that I bought a room for games and filled it with a bunch of devices and games rather quickly. Their eyes lit up before they set the axes across their backs and each grabbed one of my hands.
"C'mon Onee-chan, we'll take you there." The blue one grinned as they pulled me along. I was glad I understand some of the Japanese words from all the conversations that my friends would go through from their anime shows. Now I gotta figure out exactly where I was since there was absolutely no way that I could be in Japan when I was just in the middle of nowhere in California. I didn't even want to be in the middle of nowhere in Japan.
"Yeah, maybe we'll see Boris along the way!" the boys started having an excited conversation about this Boris and someone else named 'Alice-nee' along with an amusement part. I just let them drag me, noticing how we suddenly came across a path that we started following. I started hearing carnival music mixed in with a horrible tune. "Uh oh, the old man is doing it again." They continued walking anyways, towards the horrible sound.
"Oh my Jashin, what is that racket?" my eyes were widened in disbelief at the junk that I heard as the boys giggled at me.
"It's the old man, Mary Gowland." I blinked a couple of times.
"Who in their right mind names their child Merry-Go-Round? That's setting them up for torture." I shook my head. "That and the parent must've really liked carnivals." The boys were having the time of their lives listening to me, laughing their identical little heads off. We finally found the source of the sound, though I kinda wish we didn't, but it was also the entrance to some amusement park. I blinked. Pretty instrument, slightly handsome guy, but horrible, horrible music. It kinda made me want to go jump off a cliff. Into a tank of sharks. Before being thrown out of that into a pit of poisonous snakes and such. Then walk out of that and go to the hospital to deal with a bunch of shots and pedophile doctors probing at me. Then walk back and kill the guy in front of me. I took the guy's bow out of his hand. "I'd appreciate it if you would not play any songs at this time, please." I glared at the shocked male before smiling kindly, much like that picture I saw of Ciel Phantomhive's fake smile that Bri showed to me. "Thanks!" It was silent for a bit before the man smirked at me.
"You're pretty gutsy. I like that." He said before grinning at me. "You come here to try out some of my rides? I created a new one just the other day. I'm still working out a few of the kinks but it's pretty stable. I've had ten out of a hundred faceless come out alive so far! It's a higher percent than usual." He was grinning while I had an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, maybe later. I came here to see if I could get some food, something to drink, and find out where the hell I am." I fixed the fishnet on my hands before setting my right hand on my hip. The people around seemed grateful to me for stopping the music and that was when I realized the people didn't have eyes. The fuck? "Also, why do these people not have eyes?" the man seemed to realize something at once.
"Oh, you're an Outsider!" he seemed excited to see me yet disturbed about something while the twins made excited expressions.
"Really?! Onee-chan is an Outsider like Alice-nee?" they seemed to gain a sparkly admiration type of look in their eyes.
"Ok…. What the hell is an Outsider?" I was completely and utterly clueless and it didn't help when a cat cosplayer suddenly appeared in my face, upside down. Kinda made me wonder how the ears didn't fall off. I blinked a few times, staring at the pink haired male in front of me, before turning to the twins. "This yours?" I remember hearing them say something about a stray while they were talking about Boris and Alice. I'm gonna guess this guy in front of me was who they were talking about.
"Nope! That's Boris, he doesn't belong to anyone. But we are friends with him." The red one grinned, waving to 'Boris'. I glanced up, noticing how the dude was holding onto the tree branch, before meeting the guy's eyes again.
"Your skirt is up. You should fix it." I stated blankly before stepping to the side, looking around the surprised male to look at the amused old man. The twins were laughing at the cat's expression and I simply asked one question. "Can I have something to eat?"
Yay! Happiness! I was actually able to update a day after instead of a few days after… sorry but it won't be a frequent thing… if you've read my other stories you will find that I haven't updated in a long time on those… doesn't mean I've given up on them… ;P It's ok, I don't plan to stop writing for this for a while.
Yours truly,
Nightmare