Crona in Wonderland
*Do not own Soul Eater or anything having to do with Soul Eater
*Notes*: Fem Crona and will loosely follow the EXACT story of Alice in Wonderland (No adaptation is the same).
Chapter 4: A Cat, a Witch, and a Caterpillar?
Crona started to get up. She sneezed a few times from the dust that had filled the air when she landed on the mushrooms. It was hard for her to try and stand on such things, she kept nearly falling off and couldn't keep her balance. She eventually fell trough a crack between two mushrooms and gently landed on the forest ground below.
"Ouch!" she said as she landed on her rear. She got up and straightened out her skirt looking around to see just where she was. When she saw the trees, the grass, the flowers, and all kinds of things scattered across the ground, she realized just how small she was. "OH no..." she said with grief. "No, this can't be happening..." she looked at herself. "I don't know how to deal with being this small..." she was getting worried. what was she suppose to do now?
She looked around again. She didn't know if she should keep going or not. If she was this small then there was no way she could find Kid or the queen that the Dodo told her about. She sank down to her knees. "There's nothing I can do now. How could I possibly get around this world if I am this small..?" she fell over and lied on the ground depressed. She truly didn't know what she could possibly do at this point, she's not even sure how far from the White Rabbit's house the wind had taken her.
Her eyes became heavy and she started to get tired. Her eyes slowly started to shut and the world around her became hazed. "Maybe if I fall asleep I'll never wake up, then I won't have to deal with this..." she started to fall asleep and soon everything went black...
...There was a hazy aroma filling the air. It was like smoke and it was all around the pink haired girl whom just laid there. Soon the fumes became so accumulated that she could no longer sleep...
Crona started coughing and sat up trying to fan the smoke away from her face. She tried to open her eyes but it made her eyes water just to blink, what was this stuff, where did it come from?
She stood up continuing to fan the irritating fumes away from anywhere she could inhale them. She was finally able to open her eyes and see that she was in the same spot but was now completely surrounded in this unknown fog.
She looked around searching for where all this smoke could have came from. The she heard something, it sounded like humming.
Crona tried to step out of the cloud of smoke that she was surrounded by but it seemed to be everywhere. She started coughing again when she accidentally inhaled some of the smoke.
As she coughed it grasped the attention of a certain near by individual. "Is someone there...?" said a foreign voice nonchalantly.
Crona's head jerked up as she looked around for the owner of the voice. "Hello...? Is someone there...?" she called out.
"I asked you first..." said the voice in response. Crona started walking forward thinking that she heard the voice coming from the other side of a near by mushroom. She walked up and squeezed herself in between two pieces of fungi.
It was a bit of a tight squeeze but she got through and slid down a small hill on the other side. The hill surprised her as she yelped before hitting the ground, which was only a few inches lower.
Once again she landed on her rear. As she stood up she placed her hands on her bottom. "What is with all the falling today...?" she said a bit annoyed.
She scanned the area to see where she had landed was not too different from where she was a moment ago. But then something caught her attention. It was something that she could honestly say was the oddest thing she has seen all day.
A patchwork man with short white hair and a bolt in his head was sitting on top of a mushroom in front of her. He was wearing a long white coat and held a long cigarette which was the source of all the smoke.
He was reading a novel version of the Human Centipede. As he read he hummed to himself not noticing that Crona was right in front of him. She tilted her head. "Professor Stein...?" she thought to herself, but was it him.
"Um...excuse me..." she finally asked after much hesitation. He did not answer and instead continued to read his book. The smoke emitting from his cigar felt so toxic to Crona. Her mom had never smoked so it was an aroma that she was very much not use to.
she fanned the smoke away from her face and spoke again, this time a little louder. "Um, excuse me..."
His eyes rose from the pages of his book, blurred by the glare of his glasses. He slowly looked at her keeping his face in the book. "Yes? Who are you...?" he sounded a little agitated for some reason.
Crona attempted to smile. "Um, yes. I'm in a bit of a problem. I don't suppose you could help me..." when she looked book up she became angry when she noticed that he had gone right back to reading his book. "Hey!" she said raising her voice.
He looked back up. "What is it?" he said angrily.
"Well I tried to ask you something but then you ignored me." Crona said equally angry. But she got even angrier when he once again directed his attention to his book.
Crona's eye twitched. "You're not going to answer me are you...?" this time he didn't even react. Crona was mad; she turned around and began to walk away expecting to get no help from this guy, plus the smoke was getting to her.
When she was just about out of sight, she heard a voice call to her. It was the voice of the same man (or thing) she was just talking to (if you could even call that talking). "Little girl...little girl!" he called out. "Please come back, I have something to tell you."
Crona turned around and started walking back to the mushroom. "What could it possibly be..." she said to herself. when she returned to the man she approached him with an irritated face. "What is it? And by the way, I'm 16; not a little girl..."
He was still reading his book. What the fuck...
He looked at her and blow a puff of smoke from his mouth. "Who are you?"
"Is than honestly why you called me back here...?"
He did not answer and once again continued to read. Crona instantly decided to leave. "Fine, I'm leaving..."
"One side will make you shrink, the other side will make you grow." he said not taking his face away from the book.
Crona looked at him confused. "W-What are you talking about...? The side of what...?" he was about to answer but his eyes suddenly widened. Crona looked at him especially confused when he stood up a threw the book to the side.
Then, before Crona's eyes, a pair of large wings emerged from the man's back, tearing of his coat. These were no butterfly wings; Crona stood and gazed upon the man feeling a little scared. These wings were more like gargoyle wings and were heavily demonic in appearance.
As Crona continued to stare at him, he stretched some muscles right before jumping off the top of the mushroom and into the air. He turned to her. "Well if you'll excuse me, I have to be on my way now..." he then turned around and was prepared to head off but Crona stopped him.
"Wait!" she called out. "You never answered me. The other side of what?!"
He shot her a menacing glare that caused her to shiver then jump when he threw three knives right in her direction. The hit the ground with enough force to drive into the dirt. Crona turned back ad looked at the man fearfully but at the same time mad.
The man continued to stare at her threateningly as he spoke. "The mushroom of course. Now stop asking me questions or next time I won't miss." he then turned around and flew off without hesitation.
Crona stood speechless. Never before had she ever met such an infuriating man. How is it that her mom ever fell I love with such an-!...Crona stopped in mid thought. She kept forgetting that these were not the same people that she knew back home. She looked at the mushroom that h said would make her grow...or shrink if she took the wrong side, how bothersome.
She walked up to it still feeling skeptical. Would this really work or was he just lying to her? Then again, what other options did she have? And as rude as he was, what reason does he have to lie to a complete stranger?
She walked right up to the fungi and stared at it realizing something. She made a disgusted face. "So am I suppose to eat it? I don't want to eat a mushroom, aren't they poisonous?" Crona tilted her head.
She reached up and broke a piece off and stared at it for quite some time. She really didn't want to eat this for multiple reasons but it didn't look like there was going to be anything else that would return her to normal size.
Crona slowly brought the piece of fungi to her mouth and was a mere inch away from biting it. She stopped when her nose picked up a strange scent. She looked at the bottom of the mushroom and noticed some kind of powder or pollen.
She sniffed it again but closer. This time the scent was much stronger and it was funky as hell. As Crona took her nose away from the mushroom, the scent was enough to make her sneeze spreading the powder everywhere.
Then in one big poof of whatever the hell that was, Crona was restored to normal size. She sneezed a few more times before realizing that she was big again. She smiled and hugged herself. "Oh than God..." she looked in the direction that that winged man had flown. "Thanks, I guess..." she thought aloud to a non existent figure.
Crona began to attempt to walk out of the forest and look for the road. but just how far away had she been thrown by that wind...
(notice how I never referred to Stein as a caterpillar ;D)
It had been a while since Crona had found and got back on the road, but her sense of direction was completely thrown off. Even if she had returned to the path, which way was she supposed to go? regardless of where it might take her, she chose the path that looked the most like the one she was taking at first and followed it.
As she walked, it didn't look like Crona was going to come across anything helpful soon, or anything at all. But as she walked down the path, she eventually and finally came across some kind of building. Due to how big it was and it's resemblance to a castle, Crona assumed that this might be the home of the queen that she had heard about.
She walked up to the front door and thought about knocking but was that really such a good idea? There were countless reasons not to do this but like many other things today: she had no other choice.
She then thought to herself that even if this wasn't the right place then at least she could ask for directions. With that little bit of reassurance, she knocked on the door and waited for an answer. What followed was silence. Crona knocked once more this time with her ear up to the door to listen for anything.
She started to think that no one was home when all of a sudden there was a loud crashing sound accompanied by angry screaming and what sounded like the shattering of glass. Crona stood back in shock, mainly because it was such a loud noise after such a long silence.
She heard a few more screams and a few more crashes (if you could even call it that), but then it suddenly stopped. Crona reluctantly walked back to the door. She definitely didn't want to knock after that and she was prepared to leave but a voice stopped her.
"Hello...Yes, is someone there?" Crona was surprised to find the voice to be so calm and sweet. It was a woman's voice but she was sure that the screams she heard were from a man. The voice called out again. "I know I heard something. Is someone out there?" it was definitely a huge change in tension but the voice sounded kind enough...and...familiar.
Crona finally decided to answer. "Um, yes. I'm sorry to bother you but I'm a little lost."
"Lost are you? Why don't you come inside then." the person seemed nice but Crona would only be able to know if she went inside. So she opened the door and peaked inside only to instantly turn away before being hit in the face with a plate that had flown from nowhere.
Crona yelped as she dodged the plate which shattered against the wall. Crona slowly peaked her head back in now terrified. When she looked inside she saw a woman sitting on a throne-like chair. Her hair was black and put in a bun with two strands framing each side of her face.
She wore a long black dress and long black gloves tracing to right above her elbows. Her eyes were a light purple and glowed with a pattern of spider webs circling her pupils. Crona just stared at her. The woman was definitely beautiful but at the same time she had a menacing aura around her. But forget that, what's that smell?
Crona sniffed the air and began to sneeze. She kept sneezing until she covered her mouth and fanned the air around her with her hand. Pepper? That's what it was but why?
The woman spoke. "So sorry about the mess. Now tell me, how so are you lost, or better, yet where are you trying to go?" Crona looked at the woman and came to the realization that this lady was her aunt, Lady Arachne. But like everyone else, Crona assumed she only looked like mother's sister. She also wasn't wearing lipstick.
Crona attempted to ask her a question but stopped when more plates were thrown and more screams were heard. Crona looked to the side and noticed in a room right next to this one there was a man in what seemed to be a kitchen. His hair was black and slicked back. He wore a sleek, black, butler-like outfit. The expression in his eyes was nerve gripping; he almost looked like a vampire.
(It's Mosquito's younger form but Crona never met Mosquito so of course she wouldn't recognize him)
Crona grimaced as the man angrily rampaged the kitchen, for some reason. The woman noticed what Crona was looking at and smiled nervously. "Oh don't mind him. He's just a little angry because all that pepper is getting to him."
Crona also smiled nervously; must have been some pretty damn strong pepper to make a man go ballistic and tear down a kitchen. Crona asked her question. "Um, I was just wondering..."
The woman tilted her head. "Yes...?"
"Um, well I'm a little lost and I've been hearing a lot about this queen. I don't suppose you're her...?"
The woman stared at Crona with wide eyes but then started to laugh. Crona was confused as to what was so funny. "Hahaha, oh dearie, I'm not the queen but you're not far off." Crona was confused.
"I am not the Queen, I am the Duchess. Tell me, what business do you have with her?"
"Um, well I..." Crona stopped when she noticed something that was definitely not where it was now a second ago. There was a long beautiful woman laying across the Duchess's lap. She had long purple hair the curled up at the bottom and golden eyes. She was wearing a black and purple striped shirt and a pair of very short black shorts. She also had a witch hat and a scarf to match her shirt. But the thing about the woman that stood out the most were a pair of cat ears and a cat tail.
The cat-like girl stretched and curled up in the Duchess's lap as the Duchess proceeded to scratch her. The cat then looked at Crona with an unsettling smile. Wait...Blair!? No...maybe not.
"w...Where did she come from...?" Crona said pointing at the cat.
The Duchess tilted her head in confusion. She then looked down and smiled. "This is my cat. She's been here the whole time." she said smiling.
"No she wasn't..." Crona thought to herself. She looked at the cat again and shivered when she saw her still staring at her with that odd smile. "Um, may I ask why she's staring at me and smiling like that?"
"She's a Cheshire cat. Cheshire cats always smile like this." the cat then leapt off of the duchess's lap and scurried over to Crona. She came right up, sat kneeled down beside her, and started rubbing her face against Crona's thigh. Crona blushed from this and tried to pull away but the cat followed every step she took. "Hey, what're y-...get of-...ah..." she said struggling to get away.
The Duchess chuckled to herself. "Well I was about o answer your question about why she was staring at you, but I think this answers your question perfectly. Or purr-fectly, hahah...ok that was bad..."
"Anyway, darling, I believe you were going to ask me something...?" the Duchess said still watching Crona play with the Cheshire cat, or the cat playing with Crona.
She watched as Crona attempted to push the cat off of her (who was now on top of Crona) and ask the Duchess her question. "Well my second question was if you weren't the queen, then can you tell me how to find her?" she asked trying to push to cat away who was still on top of her licking her face.
"Well I guess I could tell you, but you have to stop playing with my cat first..."
"I think SHE'S the one playing with me." Crona said a bit angry but trying not to sound rude at the same time. The cat got off of Crona who was now able to stand back up. She looked at the cat who gave her a playful glare as she waved a paw at Crona.
Crona looked back to the Duchess. The Duchess smiled and spoke. "Sure, darling, I'll give you directions but first duck..."
Crona looked at her confused. She was about to say why but instantly got the reason why in the form of a plate hurdling towards her. She quickly ducked and the plate smashed into the wall behind her. She rose back up scared out of her mind; she can't believe she forgot about the wrath filled cook in the kitchen.
"Okay, NOW I'll tell you the way..." the Duchess began. "Once you exit my palace, you will follow the path to the left. If you take that path and continue to head straight, and then straight, and then straight some more, you will eventually come across the castle."
Crona just stared at her.
The Duchess was confused by her look. "Is there something wrong, child?"
"N-no, it's just that those are some very simple directions...are you sure that's right?"
"Trust me, darling. Not only have I been to the castle but every path in Wonderland eventually takes you to the queen."
Crona was silent for a moment and then smiled. "Well thank you for the directions. I should be on my way."
"Oh, before you go..." the Duchess said stopping Crona from leaving. Crona turned back to face the Duchess.
"Y-yes..."
"May I ask why you are in search of such a figure of so much authority. It has me curious."
Crona hesitated to answer because she didn't know how the Duchess would react. "W-well, I'm looking for her because I'm trying to get out of this world and go home, and I've been told by others that she would be the best person to talk to."
"Really...?" the Duchess tilted her head. "And just why do you want to go home so bad...?" there was a dark aura around the Duchess, similar to the one she felt when the Dodo asked her the same question. Crona felt a little scared. Event the mad cook silent with a menacing glare, and the cat's mood also drastically turned serious.
Crona started to back away. The Duchess smiled. "Oh I'm sorry, I guess you are in a hurry. You may leave if you desire." Crona smiled nervously; It's like that eerie feeling she just got from the three never happened. She began to turn around and wave good bye.
"Um, well thanks again, bye."
"Oh, one more thing, darling..."
"Hm...? Yes...?"
"On your way there, be on the look out for a long almost limitless wall on the side of the road. If you spot that, then you are definitely going the right way."
Crona smiled and waved once more. "Oh, thank you. I will."
Crona exited the palace and began walking to the left as instructed. Now she would hopefully settle this once and for all.
Wow, I meant for this to be posted three days earlier, but so many things came up. Anyway, hope you guys like it, it is definitely the longest so far. I also hope the Blair on Crona thing would grab your attention. For the next chapter, get ready for the most terrifying character from Soul Eater AND Alice in Wonderland to show up. Get ready for the return of a certain monster and the most annoying guy in the world D:...